Brian Alford

Brian Alford serves as the Chief Executive Officer for and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business.

Brian attended Mississippi State University where he majored in Computer Science. After a few years of college, Brian enlisted in the United States Air Force for 9 years and then worked as a GS-11 overseeing the Air Force Network Operations Center at Keesler for 5 more. Past work experience includes duties as the lead engineer for Hartsfield International Airport Y2K project, Senior Consultant for KPMG’s Cisco Practice “Bearing Point” and Senior Manager for InfraStream Technologies in Atlanta, Georgia. Brian currently holds many industry certifications from Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Novell, CJIS, and Sophos.

In 2002, Brian and partners Arthur Jones and Ryan Giles formed AGJ Systems & Networks and opened an office in the Gulf Coast Business Technology Center (now the Innovation Center).

In 2019 Brian was recognized by the Mississippi Business Journal for “Top in Tech” for dedication and service to the state of Mississippi. Today AGJ has over 1000 clients throughout the Gulf Coast, United States, Europe, and Australia. AGJ has been named one of the Top 501 Managed Service Providers globally for 6 straight years and was recognized as a Top Technology Providers Pioneer 250 by CRN for 2019 & 2020.

Brian is married to GraceAnne and currently spends most of his off-work time shuffling children from place to place. He is a board member for Biloxi High Baseball Booster Club, former Biloxi Youth Baseball Board member and coach, an active traveling baseball team coach, former soccer coach, and now a cheer dad most weekends. Brian is also an active member of the Reserve Bank of Atlanta where he assists other IT Professionals across the country grow their small businesses.