Ombligo is a leading full-service IT Asset Disposition provider headquartered in a 30,000 sq ft. R2 certified facility in Brooklyn, NY.

With over 20 years of experience, Ombligo helps clients strategically manage the lifecycle of their IT assets.

Our focus is sustainability, the environment, and data security. This helps us safeguard and enhance your brand equity.

Minimizing environmental impact by maximizing the proportion of hardware reused and resold vs. responsibly recycled.

Ensuring recycled obsolete parts do not end up in landfills.

Minimizing data security risks.

Maximizing value through harvesting of parts and maximizing the proportion of units and parts sold via retail vs. wholesale channels.

Select Clients

UNICOR
Amazon
CDI
College Board
Davidson Kempner
Entercom
Ernst & Young
Fox
GroupM
Presidio
Schrödinger
UNICOR
Amazon
CDI
College Board
Davidson Kempner
Entercom
Ernst & Young
Fox
GroupM
Presidio
Schrödinger

Ombligo In The News

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A New Mindset

Changing the world means providing services and products that have a substantial positive impact to our community and environment. We believe that developing corporate policies and practices that incorporate societal issues creates economic value, which, in turn, allows companies to grow.

For Ombligo, this means continuously challenging the status quo to find innovative solutions that minimize the production of electronic waste; such solutions include the re-use, repurposing and/or up-cycling of our partners' used IT equipment. If a unit appears to be obsolete, we take it apart and try to salvage its individual parts. We find creative ways to create value for our partners by repurposing (i.e. up-cycling) these parts, and only turning to responsible recycling as a last resort.

Our Culture

Ombligo is a team of inspired individuals as diverse as the city and the country in which we operate. We believe in encouraging experimentation, despite the stress it causes on internal resources. Ombligo believes in sharing information across the entire company; our successes and our failures too – especially our failures. We say "we" and not "me". Ombligo believes that the lessons learned from our mistakes can, and should, be used to educate and strengthen our team.

We started out small because we believe that bootstrapping drives innovation. We also believe that small companies should be self-funded because financial independence allows for creative freedom. We believe that it is still possible to start a great American company in a garage (as we did) and expand across the country (as we continue to do).

We wanted to make big mistakes and learn from them while we were still small. We made mistakes. We learned from them. We were honest about what we knew and what we didn't know. We experimented. We failed. We experimented more. We succeeded. We improved upon our successes. We listened to our teammates and our partners. We worked hard. We believe we are making a difference. You can help.

Make a Difference

Donate to Charities

Donate to Charities

We provide our partners the option of donating all, or a portion of, their used IT equipment to a charitable institution of their choice. Donations can be in the form of used IT equipment that is refurbished and redeployed by Ombligo, or from the cash earned through monetizing used equipment in the secondary market. Our partners are able to make a difference, while enjoying the tax benefits associated with the value of their donations.

Bridge the Digital Divide

Bridge the Digital Divide

With the rapid pace of technological innovation, several markets and economies are left with little to no access to technology. We help bridge this digital divide by working with our partners to supply these underprivileged economies with a much needed access to technology, in the way of refurbished and accessible IT equipment.

Our partners are also able to directly fund specific projects that are aimed at serving these markets, such as providing data center equipment to schools, or providing computer and lab equipment to colleges and universities.

Protect Our Planet

Protect Our Planet

We have an explicit commitment to reduce electronic waste and find solutions to reuse or repurpose our partners' used IT equipment instead of recycling it. To that end, we maximize the proportion of used IT equipment that we resell, and we even up-cycle obsolete equipment whenever possible prior to responsibly recycling it.

When Ombligo has to responsibly recycle equipment, we hold ourselves to the highest industry standards. We have earned several key certifications that allow us to ensure that all recycling work done by our downstream vendors, is done in the most environmentally-friendly manner.

We provide our partners with full visibility into our recycling process, which allows them to set, track and achieve environmental goals. Our detailed reporting provides our partners with specific weights responsibly recycled periodically, broken down by raw material type.

Recycle Responsibly

Recycle Responsibly

We believe that there should be an electronics-recycling bin next to every garbage bin and paper/plastic recycling bin in the world. We believe that, if given the opportunity, people want to do the right thing. With that in mind, we have designed and have started distributing Ombligo Bins, which are recycling bins for electronics. Ombligo Bins are locked bins that encourage employees of large companies and tenants of large industrial buildings to properly dispose of their used and out-of-service IT and AV equipment securely and responsibly. We recently launched a successful Ombligo Bins pilot project in select buildings and data centers in NYC.

Who We Are

Our Leadership

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Harris Edelman

Chief Executive Officer

harris.edelman@ombligo.com

Harris, our Founder, Chief Executive Officer and acting Chief Technology Officer, leads Ombligo's vision and business strategy. He began his career with the Cisneros Group in 1996 where he was the Director of Corporate Strategy, and helped advise and lead a variety of strategic transactions in the US and Latin America. Harris left in 2000 at the midst of the dot.com boom to join the Urban Box Office – an online media startup – as Vice President of Business Development where he focused on forging new partnerships and improving the Company’s overall growth prospects. In 2002, Harris joined TechSmart – an Information Technology (IT) refurbishing and remarketing Company – as Vice President of Business Development. While at TechSmart, Harris developed a passion for the IT services industry, and realized how much more could be done in the industry with a management team who cared about more than just top-line growth. In late 2003/early 2004, Harris decided to start Ombligo, based on the premise that what is good for the community is also good for business. Ombligo was founded to save the world, one used computer at a time. Harris strongly believes that creating policies and practices that incorporate societal aspects creates economic value, which, in turn, allows companies to succeed.

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Hani Keirouz

Chief Operating Officer

hani.keirouz@ombligo.com

Hani, our Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer, works closely with Harris on strategic growth initiatives, and helps run the day-to-day business. He began his career in 2001 as a Financial Analyst at TechSmart, where he and Harris originally met. Hani left TechSmart in 2003 to join Rho Capital Partners – a leading global Venture Capital fund – as a Senior Analyst where he helped recommend investments in software, biotechnology and energy startups in the US. Hani left Rho Capital Partners in 2005 to earn his M.B.A. at the Columbia Business School where he combined his studies with a consulting role for Bitshelter, a New York technology startup. After completing his postgraduate studies, Hani joined Merrill Lynch (later Bank of America Merrill Lynch) as an Investment Banking Associate, later promoted to Vice President. In that capacity, he advised companies in the Consumer Products and Retail Sectors on a host of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, new debt issuances, equity offerings and divestitures. Hani left Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2012 to return to his startups and operations roots, and consulted for a wide range of technology startups in the US primarily on management and strategy. He reconnected with Harris in 2013, and joined Ombligo on a full-time basis later that year.

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Sukhdeep Singh

IT & Operations Director

sukhdeep.singh@ombligo.com

Sukhdeep Singh, our IT & Operation Director works closely with Harris and Hani, and actively manages Ombligo’s day-to-day operations. Singh oversees and manages receiving, testing, building, data security and Ombligo’s ERP. Singh has been instrumental in helping Ombligo introduce new initiatives and helping promote best practices aimed at minimizing the environmental impact of Ombligo’s operations. Singh is our go-to guru for any tech-related or process-related questions. He started his career as a Technology teacher in 2006 in India. He later moved to New York and joined Ombligo in 2011 as the Company’s third fulltime employee. He earned M.B.A. and M.C.A. from Punjab Technical University and holds CCNA and MCITP certifications.

Our Staff

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Stanley Chen

Sales Out Manager

stanley.chen@ombligo.com

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Ashir Cherkezov

Sales Support

ashir.cherkezov@ombligo.com

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Felton Duncan

Operations Manager

felton.duncan@ombligo.com

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Mike Epp

ITAD Manager

mike.epp@ombligo.com

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Hector Ghigliotty

Data Sanitization

hector.ghigliotty@ombligo.com

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Joshua Grimaldi

Order Fullfilment

joshua.grimaldi@ombligo.com

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Aki Liu

Accounting Manager

aki.liu@ombligo.com

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Daniel Pomerants

Technical Customer Support

daniel.pomerants@ombligo.com

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Chris Casanova

Testing & Building

chris.casanova@ombligo.com

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Iryna Berezhna

Order Processing

iryna.berezhna@ombligo.com

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Nathan Schmidt

Software Development Manager

nathan.schmidt@ombligo.com

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Michael Chang

Shipping

michael.chang@ombligo.com

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Jason Flores

Shipping

jason.flores@ombligo.com

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Ted Li

Server Building Manager

ted.li@ombligo.com

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Adam Espinal

Testing

adam.espinal@ombligo.com

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Adam Strickfaden

Server Building

adam.strickfaden@ombligo.com

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Anton Kirkevich

Software Development

anton.kirkevich@ombligo.com

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Cameron Hyacinth

Testing

cameron.hyacinth@ombligo.com

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Dwight Spears

Receiving

dwight.spears@ombligo.com

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Erica Halim

Accounting

erica.halim@ombligo.com

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Gogita Turadze

Testing Manager

gogita.turadze@ombligo.com

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Hector Valentin

Receiving

hector.valentin@ombligo.com

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Joseph Magnowski

Quality Assurance

joseph.magnowski@ombligo.com