Guest post by Evan Trent, senior vice president of corporate development at School of Rock. Evan Trent, senior vice president of corporate development at School of Rock At School of Rock, our mission is to inspire the world to rock on stage, and in life. We’re working toward that mission by giving students the opportunity to learn and perform music in an inspiring and authentic way. But with 120 schools, 2,000 teachers and 15,000 students across the US, and abroad, managing IT can be a challenge. To put this challenge in perspective, think of our franchise like a rock band: we encourage each location to improvise, solo, and infuse their own creativity into the performance, but at the same time, the band needs to play in the same key and to the same beat. With our franchises so geographically dispersed, consistency in areas like safety, compliance and IT are.