NAPLES, Fla. — Kelly Roofing, a family-owned business based in Naples, Fla., since 1972, is one of 12 companies that received a 2015 Visionary Award during the Microsoft Convergence conference in Atlanta. Kelly Roofing won in the Modern Small or Medium Business category. Other Visionary Award winners include Pandora Jewelry, Barclays and AccuWeather. Ken Kelly, owner of the company with his father, accepted the award on March 17 while on stage with Microsoft staff to discuss how he uses Microsoft products.
The awards recognize Microsoft customers who have achieved new levels of excellence with their Microsoft technology. Kelly Roofing has approximately 75 employees working in Collier and Lee counties, and did more than $10 million in sales last year. In 2012, when Kelly anticipated the economic recovery had begun, he sought a technology solution to ensure that customers, sales staff and administrative employees had accurate and ongoing communication about where each job was in the company’s production cycle.