People - Jeffrey Rosengarden
Jeffrey Rosengarden
Chief Executive Officer
The Chief Executive Officer of HighTower as well as one of the founding partners of the firm, Jeff has been selling and supporting Sage MAS90/200 ERP systems software since its launch for distribution, manufacturing, and general accounting disciplines in early 1981.
Jeff has spent his time, since the opening of HighTower in 1987, building and growing the business. He has lead his company to join the ranks of Sage Software’s most elite resellers in the United States – winning almost every award Sage Software has to offer, year after year. In addition to selling and supporting the Sage software product line, nationally, Jeff has driven HighTower to also become one of Sage Software’s premier Master Developers – producing add-on products for MAS90/200 that are sold by Sage’s reseller channel, to their end-users.
Prior to starting up HighTower with it’s other co-founder, Rob Nordin, Jeff worked in a local Chicago steel company both modernizing and maintaining the myriad computer based controls for the forge and heat treat furnaces while pursuing a Mechanical Engineering degree at IIT.
Jeff's hobbies include golf,bicycling, reading, flying, as well as "playing" with computers (especially Apple Macintosh systems). During the spring and summer months Jeff and his wife Debbie can be found motorcycling somewhere in the United States. Jeff is married with 4 children and currently has 6 grandchildren.