Pittsburgh Tech Company Nexstara Named Top Employer

Pittsburgh-based IT services corporation Nexstara, which offers IT management services and cloud strategy consulting, just grabbed an award from The Cranberry Eagle. The publication sponsors annual Community Choice Awards for local businesses in categories ranging from choice hotels to restaurants to dentists and beyond.

Nexstara earned a Silver Award in the "Employer/Company" category as a best place to work in the Cranberry area. Each January, The Cranberry Eagle encourages community members to recognize local businesses by nominating and voting for them for recognition awards. Nexstara proudly recognizes this achievement on its website.

The Cranberry Eagle is not the only body to have recognized Nexstara's outstanding dedication to both the technology field and its employees. The company has also been acknowledged by business insight corporation Dun & Bradstreet as part of the top 2% of IT providers offering exceptional value. Customer support platform, Zendesk, echoes this same thought by rating Nexstara among their top 1% of IT companies in customer satisfaction. In fact, the company earns a 98% customer satisfaction rating each month by its own measurement.

Nexstara's commitment to its workforce is clearly evident by its standard operating procedures. At Nexstara, employee opinions matter, and each decision that significantly impacts company revenue potential must be voted on. Employees within the company are empowered, by their ability to affect outcomes and by the overall 25% ownership pay model that the employee base maintains.

Nexstara's solid business practices and proficient staff have allowed the company to achieve great success. Nexstara endeavors to provide top-tier IT support to Pittsburgh businesses and services that support organizational functioning. Its mission has always been what founder Leo Smigel calls "relentless responsibility." This dedication is one to ethics, as Nexstara promises to execute its business practices through ethical and efficient means, even when the competition does not.

The company is constantly working to make its solutions bigger and better, evaluating them along the way. Among Nexstara's business solutions are managed services, encompassing IT maintenance and tech support; cloud computing, setting companies up with services such as Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365; and IT sales, helping businesses to choose the best technology products. Additionally, Nexstara can help get business projects off the ground with its IT project services.

It's easy to see why the Cranberry community has put its confidence in Nexstara. The company's ever-evolving business practices, responsible leadership and capable staff have created an enterprise worthy of high praise. Nexstara knows what's important-an invaluable workforce able to execute a laundry list of technology services to area businesses.


Nexstara is a technology consulting company headquartered in Cranberry Township, PA. The company was founded in 2003 by Leo Smigel and offers professional managed services and IT consulting in the Pittsburgh area. To find out more about Nexstara and its business capabilities, visit http://nexstara.com/.