Nick Smarrelli, CEO, GadellNet Consulting

Nick Smarrelli has built a company culture founded on the core values of personal and professional growth, accountability and impact. His dedication to these core values has contributed to GadellNet being named to Inc. 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies list for eight consecutive years. Under Smarrelli’s leadership, GadellNet has invested heavily in talent and then provided that talent with the resources to achieve their full potential. 

“The story of our growth, from four to 150 (employees) isn’t because we’ve spent tons on sales and marketing,” Smarrelli said in an April 2021 interview. “The reality is, we put those dollars toward our people. We are a technology solutions provider, but the medium with which we convey and sell and speak to technology is through humans.”  

Smarrelli believes that “if we invest properly in humans, we are going to create a better experience for our clients, thus helping them do their business better.”

Around the GadellNet offices, you’ll hear another phrase — “100% responsibility, 0% excuses.”  Smarrelli uses this phrase to maintain the highest degree of accountability in every engagement. But, to him, it’s more than that. He hosts a podcast, Zero Excuses, where exceptional leaders share personal and professional stories of managing their most limited resource — time.   

In 2020, Smarrelli led the organization to B Corp Certification. As a result, GadellNet must meet higher levels of social and environmental performance, legal accountability and public transparency. The annual assessment covers five aspects of stakeholder impacts — customers, environment, community, governance and workers.

“You can talk ’til you’re blue in the face about what a good company you are, but, when you’ve got a third-party auditor looking at every decision you’ve made as an organization, it forces you to hold yourself to a higher standard,” said Smarrelli.