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Computer networking company provides
clients with peace of mind.
hen the unthinkable happened to
a local cantor — 10 years' worth
of music, work and personal
information disappeared when his external
hard drive crashed — he called Jon Isenberg,
founder and president of Elite Networking
& Consulting (ENC) in Southfield. With a few
hours' work, information technology experts
at the company were able to recover the lost
data and restore the music.
"The cantor was
very appreciative,"
Isenberg says. "I
believe he looked
to the heavens and
thanked God."
Many of us
have been in that
cantor's shoes and
know the paralyz-
ing feeling of losing
important data, the
frustration of hav-
Jon Isenberg
ing a virus render
our computers inoperable or the annoyance
of seemingly endless calls to computer help
lines.
Within four hours of a customer's call, an
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ENC technician will come to your home or
business, or patch in remotely from an off-
site location to problem solve your computer
issues – guaranteed.
Isenberg, who lives in West Bloomfield
with his wife, Lorrie, launched the company
in January 2010 after falling victim to down-
sizing at the insurance company where he
worked as a network administrator.
"Starting my own business seemed logi-
cal," he says. A few key events helped put him
on the road to entrepreneurial success.
"I started by doing part-time computer
repair work, so I placed an advertisement in
my synagogue bulletin," says Isenberg, who
attends Congregation B'nai Moshe in West
Bloomfield.
"I got a phone call from a fellow member
inviting me to attend a networking event
put on by Business Networking International
(BNI) in Farmington Hills. It was as if Divine
intervention were pointing me in the right
direction. That meeting led me to another
party, where I reconnected with an old
friend, Andrew Abela, who became my busi-
ness partner."
ENC's first project was to install new
computers in the synagogue library at B'nai
Moshe. "I joined BNI two weeks after we in-
corporated," Isenberg says. "It's great. There
are a lot of other Jewish people in the group."
Since that time, ENC has continued to
grow exponentially. The company has eight
people on staff, including Isenberg and Lorrie,
who works on the administrative side of the
business.
In the beginning, ENC focused on
residential customers, resolving issues from
virus and spyware removal, recovery of lost
passwords, computer tune-ups, and network
setups and configurations.
Isenberg signed on with his first commer-
cial client, a logistics company, from an ad
with tear-off tabs he placed in his gym. "That
company's been a client ever since," he says.
ENC now has a multitude of commercial
clients — varying in size — some with up
to 200 employees. Clients include medical
offices, manufacturers, attorneys, school sys-
tems and retail outlets. "Our clients like our
four-hour guarantee," Isenberg says.
ENC performs a lot of work for insurance
companies, helping their clients replace com-
puters and other IT equipment lost in a fire
or a flood — and recovering any data from
damaged machines.