Chris Keith

HIREXE

AI Services BPO
Featuring South African talent

Founder

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Luxury Wooden Hangers

- Bootstrapped to 7 figure revenues 2020
- Mastered: Product, Funnel, Audience
- There's a market for anything (if done correctly)

Zorus

'Fixer' 

Rebuilt and lead revenue and operational efforts for Zorus (VC-backed, Cybersecurity software in the MSP Channel); scaled the org to >7 figures. (raised 3.5M Seed + 9M Series A)

- This included direct P&L management
- Headcount
- Monthly/quarterly/annual projections 
- Compensation/incentive structures
- Curation of the customer progression experience
- Brand building
- Live event strategy 
- Content roadmap/curation
- Top-of-funnel lead generation
- Travel and public speaking (50+ events) 
- Building out AE, SDR, AM, and support job functionality, 
- Direct management of all reports
- Monthly board meetings

in 25 months:
> 940% Revenue Increase
> 511% Partner Count Increase
> 483% Employee Headcount Increase

Fixer

Paradigm Investments, LLC 

Real Estate Investment Firm

- Found deals, managed contractors remotely, renovation projects, and heavy negotiation.
- Raised private capital, found deals, remote management, deal negotiation, and returned the maximum alpha possible through lean operations. 
- Largest Win, Remote Flip, in New Orleans, LA (9 contractors)

Principal

Phoenix Contact

- Brought territory from $1.3M to $5.4M 
- CAGR – 20.67% (company growth <7%)
- Managed 25+ distributor salespeople throughout the state of Colorado. Trained, supported, optimized, and helped them close.

Winck Digital

Digital Advertising firm – focused on top-of-funnel/lead gen activities

- Specialized in Google PPC, FB Paid, SEO content/link-building strategies, and website builds/optimizations.
- Consulted on brand strategy/design
- Maximized 'the offer' to ensure highest lead conversion possible
- 2 Employees, bootstrapped from $0 to 7 figures ARR in 9 months

Co-Founder

Founder of HIREXE

The Future of Work = People (leveraged) + AI Agents (specialized).

Building Hirexe to bring infinitely (∞) scaled productivity to the global workforce.

PEOPLE are a vital part of the equation, those who figure out the best collaboration of ppl + tech will win.

VP - Sales and Marketing

PITCH IT’s Game-Changing Startups

Full list of companies/founders below:

Rayanne Buchianico - ABC Solutions
- for MSP accounting/consulting, look no further!

Michael Zbarsky / Jared Casner - Blacksmith InfoSec
- forge information security programs

Alexandra Kehayas / Larry Meador - Cavelo Inc
- proactively reduce cybersecurity risk and achieve compliance

Mark Heather / Randy Blasik - ComplianceAide 
- automate the mundane parts of compliance

Mike McDonald - Everykey
- wirelessly unlocks your phone, computer, tablet, and automatically logs you into your online accounts when you're nearby, then locks everything down when you walk away

Delta Holtby - GetInSync
- helping their customers solve business problems

Dustin Puryear - Rocketship
- AI powered platform streamlining dispatch, scheduling, and escalation management 

Badri Varadarajan - HitWit
- enables MSPs to share their expert knowledge with internal and external stakeholders

Nathanaelle Denechere - Mizo
- delivers service desk augmentation and efficiency powered by adaptive intelligence

Jean Templin - Nayak.ai
- real-time Emotional Intelligence coaching

John Guido - P2P Global
- empowers solution providers to identify, engage, and collaborate with peers

Taylor Tabusa - Palisade 
- AI-Powered DMARC platform

Johnathan Skofi (Schofield) - Skofi
- the missing link between growing businesses and trusted MSPs

Dexter Caffey - Smart Eye Technology
- screen privacy platform

Alex Markov - Strategy Overview
- streamline QBRs

Matt Yesbeck - MSPX
- marketplace for buying and selling MSP contracts

🚀Adam Anderson / Brad Powell Powell - ThreatCaptain
- the Cybersecurity Sales Enablement platform

Anup Ghosh - ThreatMate
- IT Security audits for prospects

Wim Kerkhoff Kerkhoff - TopLeft
- making your tickets and projects visible and easy to understand

Nicolas Fry - TurboDocx
- build business documents using your content and AI

Dmitrius Garcia, JD - xAmplify
- eliminates the friction in co-selling, co-marketing, and co-branding

And Chris Keith (me) / HIREXE
- the leading AI hiring platform for the best MSP talent in the world

Its truly been a pleasure getting to interact/know these folks over the past couple months - the future of the channel is bright :)

Appreciate facilitating everything hashtag
#pitchit The IT Nation ConnectWise  Sam Hoyen Sean Lardo Andrea Caby Barrow

TODAY IS THE DAY

PITCH IT is LIVE at 12pm EST! 

Join for the live event, hosted by none other than Matt Solomon ⭐  Channel Program Caitlyn Jopp Kevin Lancaster Garrett Browne

GOOD LUCK to everyone presenting today:
John Guido Mike McDonald Michael Zbarsky Rayanne Buchianico Reese Tuttle Wim Kerkhoff Blacksmith InfoSec HIREXE TopLeft Everykey P2P Global HitWit

Hoping we can get some of the other companies from Day 1 and Day 3 to cheer us on as well!! Alexandra Kehayas Larry Meador Mark Heather Delta Holtby Dustin Puryear Nathanaelle Denechere Jean Templin Taylor Tabusa Johnathan Skofi (Schofield) Alex Markov Dexter Caffey Matt Yesbeck Brad Powell Anup Ghosh Nicolas Fry Dmitrius Garcia, JD Matt Yesbeck

And huge shoutout to the ConnectWise team Sean Lardo Andrea Caby Barrow Sam Hoyen Davina Collins, MBA The IT Nation #pitchit

Link to event in the comments below!

44 days - Average Time it takes an MSP to hire in the US

5 days - Average time it takes an MSP to hire with HIREXE

How?

We built an end-to-end AI solution to GET TO NO faster

> 264,000 applicants processed in 2025
< 914 applicants approved onto the platform

When we recommend someone, they've already been heavily vetted (made it through 3+ rounds of screening, both technology and human)

And all of the screening we do is specific to the channel
- Tech Stack
- Prior MSP experience
- IT factors (personality/presentation/persuasiveness) 

Time is money $$$

So much fun yesterday Adam Bielanski Sean Lardo Gregg Lalle

ConnectWise The IT Nation #pitchit

HIREXE just hit 100K followers on LinkedIn

Proud of this one - and we've only just begun!

Day 1 of the Live Pitches with Channel Program

Are officially in the books!

Huge Shoutout to Matt Solomon ⭐ Solomon, Kevin Lancaster and the rest of the team

Great job to everyone who presented this afternoon... #pitchit

Can't wait for Tuesday's session - when HIREXE is up!

Matt Yesbeck Rayanne Buchianico Michael Zbarsky Jared Casner Alexandra Kehayas Larry Meador Mark Heather Randy Blasik Mike McDonald Delta Holtby Dustin Puryear Badri Varadarajan Nathanaelle Denechere Jean Templin John Guido Taylor Tabusa Johnathan Skofi (Schofield) Dexter Caffey Alex Markov Matt Yesbeck 🚀Adam Anderson Brad Powell Anup Ghosh Nicolas Fry Dmitrius Garcia, JD Wim Kerkhoff Sean Lardo Sam Hoyen Andrea Caby Barrow ConnectWise The IT Nation

The Internal ConnectWise #pitchit presentations are underway!

Want a sneak peak into what the HIREXE deck looks like?!

Check out a few of the images below...

Hint:

We've built out an end to end vertical AI solution
That is already leveraging over 50M unique data points
We've processed >265,000 applications in 2025
And only approve the best of the best (<1000 ppl total)

Hiring is no longer an ACTIVE hunt

Instead

It's a PASSIVE Recommendation Experience

FOR MSPs

Good luck to all of the founders/companies in the shark tank this afternoon!

Blacksmith InfoSec Michael Zbarsky Jared Casner Everykey Mike McDonald TopLeft Wim Kerkhoff GetInSync Delta Holtby AP2T Labs HitWit Badri Varadarajan P2P Global John Guido

This has been such a blast Sam Hoyen Andrea Caby Barrow Sean Lardo Simon Escobar The IT Nation

Make sure to keep the pitch <5 minutes, haha!

HIREXE Weekly Recap:

Doing it LIVE!

1 - We closed 5 people this week, the most in the history of our company

Excited to keep the momentum going. Devon Mitchell, Amber Lauer and team were working overtime - and there is no sign of slowing down!

2 - Announcements drove significant traffic for us!  

We had pretty seamless rollouts of multiple campaigns, and the website traffic/lead flow to back it up.  Momentum is just getting started! Buckle up for 2H of 2025 Kay-Leigh Bier...

3 - Content: 

Elsabé Steenkamp is hard at work behind the scenes with everything from build in public breakdowns for our software, to Daily Diamond highlights of our top candidates... 

She's also busy collecting positive feedback from the thousands of candidates that are actively applying to be on the platform. (see video attached) 

I was also fortunate enough to record podcasts with David Suk Brown and Matt Topper/Sean Lardo, can't wait for those to be released...

4 - Onboarding and Success:

Sasha McGhee has been a machine, from everything to brand new document creation, to active onboarding of new resources, to management of ongoing clients and opportunities... And only getting better - the 1/2 punch of her and Nakita Shepherd is lethal!

The HIREXE team is expanding!!

Join me in welcoming Amber Lauer

Amber brings warmth, drive, and precision to every part of the hiring journey. 

She’s known for:
-Making candidates feel heard, seen, and supported
-Matching the right people with the right opportunities
-Navigating fast-paced recruitment challenges with ease
-Championing South African talent with real heart

Amber's South African phrase? 

“Lekker” and “YOH” full of energy and expression, just like her. 

And when it comes to her favourite South African food, she’s all about koeksisters and a bunny chow!

Keep up the great work 🇿🇦 🏴‍☠️

THE HIREXE TEAM IS EXPANDING!

Welcome Jurgen Smith, another 10x Full Stack Developer

How do you build a great product?
And ship new code constantly? 

It's simple - hire 10x developers... 

Since Jurgen joined the team a few months ago, he and Ryan Taylor have been shipping new products and features nonstop.

This has only been accelerated with Anthropic / Claude... One could say that the VIBES are HIGH over in South Africa AND on the platform.

The updates we've implemented and shipped have already saved our recruiting team about 80% of the candidate management/approval process...

We've processed 264,000+ applicants in 2025
Approved about 900 of them
(With a team of 2 recruiters!) 

They're busy building out the admin dashboard/functionality, which is going to save the companies using our platform about 75% of the time needed to search for and find perfect fit candidates... A perfect vertical AI play for any sort of staffing company or solution. 

Our product meetings are always one of the many highlights of the week. (Shot, bru!) Elsabé Steenkamp has been working on a bunch of Build In Public content we'll be releasing in conjunction with HIREXE product updates over the coming weeks/months...

Much much more to come!

In Less than 1 Hour:

PitchIT Live: AI MSP Practices & Infinite Productivity

Join myself, Gregg Lalle of Synthreo, Adam Bielanski of MSP+ and Sean Lardo from ConnectWise for a real time discussion on everything productivity and efficiency in the channel!

Link to the livestream in comments... 

The IT Nation #pitchit #pitchitlive

After speaking with 10,000+ MSPs at live events

Guess what their number 1 problem was? 

Hint:

It was regarding PEOPLE

Not TECHNOLOGY! 

"It's impossible to find people to scale my organization..."

When I double clicked, here was the constant feedback:

No one that we're interviewing checks all 3 of the below boxes:

1: Qualified ppl
- that have actively worked at an MSP
- NOT Just in IT
- ConnectWise Kaseya Datto and other Channel platforms a MUST

2: IT Factor
- they have to be technical, of course
- but they also have to be personable
- and the english has to be crisp
- and they have to be ok with a fast/dynamic environment

3: Reasonably priced
- everyone who checks boxes number 1 and 2, is unaffordable

Not anymore...  Enter HIREXE

Can't thanks Matt Topper, CISSP, CISM, CCSP and Sean Lardo enough for the time and chat, this was a blast

And huge thanks to The IT Nation and #pitchit

Always a pleasure getting to spend time with Marvin Bee

Thanks for hosting and for the chat!

IT Business Owner and Podcaster. Provides managed IT services, network support, and cybersecurity solutions throughout South Florida.

What if you could slash your hiring time from 44 days to just 5? In this interview, Chris Keith of HIREXE shares how his AI-powered platform is turning chaos into clarity for MSP recruitment. 

“You can save up to 75% in salary going global without sacrificing culture fit.” - Chris Keith

#MSP #TechTalent

Open article: Cut Costs & Hire Faster (EP 894) by itbusinesspodcast.com

Humans are complicated

Luckily, with AI, we can structure that complication

And use effectively

Remember the first time you used OpenAI's ChatGPT?

It was a magic experience

You asked it a question

And in real time

It aggregated millions and millions of datapoints

Decided which ones made the most sense for you

And gave you an ANSWER

- Not a list of websites to search through
- Not a bunch of tools to select from
- Not endless purchasing options

It gave you EXACTLY what you wanted

The Answer

Now image the same experience

But finding the next person for to work with

Not sifting thru 1000's of applications
Not having to email/message 100's of people
Not hosting endless 15 min screening calls

Just Final Round Candidates

At HIREXE

We are capturing 5000+ unique data points
- Per user that applies to the platform
- And use every single one of those

To get you and ANSWER

Not another tool
Not endless options

Just the answer; a Perfect Fit Candidate

Instantly

Listen for more info :)

You're the man David Suk Brown - more to come!

🚀 Hiring doesn’t have to be complicated. What if AI could make finding the right talent faster, smarter, and more effective?

Chris Keith, Founder of HIREXE, shares how artificial intelligence is transforming the hiring process experience.

Here are some takeaways you don’t want to miss:
🤖 Hirexe platform and how AI can streamline recruitment and match the right talent with the reduce bias in decision-making.
🔍 2025 PitchIT Accelerator Program by ConnectWise.
💡 Practical ways leaders can integrate AI without losing the human touch.

If you’re looking to elevate your talent strategy and stay ahead in the evolving workforce, this conversation is packed with insights you can apply today.

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In business and careers, we often push for quick wins.
But the real breakthroughs come from patience, persistence, and long-term vision.

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