Ingram Micro VentureTech Network Announces 2008 Spotlight Award Winners, Welcomes Two Industry Leaders Into Hall of Fame
October 29 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
The IT Channel's Premier North America Partner Community Recognizes
Members for Outstanding Partnership and Performance; Names Nexus
Information Systems' John DeRocker and Juniper Networks' Frank
Vitagliano to VentureTech Network Hall of Fame SANTA ANA, Calif.,
Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating ten years of partnership and
channel leadership, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM) is pleased to
announce the 2008 VentureTech Network Spotlight Awards Winners and
Hall of Fame Inductees. The VentureTech Network (VTN) represents a
community of more than 440 of today's best and brightest solution
provider organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Ingram
Micro VTN Spotlight Awards recognizes community members for
outstanding performance and partnership, as well as overall
enthusiasm and leadership within the community. The VTN Hall of
Fame celebrates those channel partners who are leaders within the
IT channel and have gone above and beyond to support VTN by sharing
best practices and fostering meaningful partnerships within the
network and on behalf of VTN. This year's VTN Spotlight Award
winners include fast-growth solution providers Next Dimension Inc.
and HSMC Technology Services for top sales growth within their
respective regions. The annual VTN Spirit Awards were presented to
Terry Buchanan of CONPUTE in Markham, Ontario and Randy Sklar of
Sklar Technology Partners in Mechanicsville, Virginia for their
contagious enthusiasm for VTN. The VTN Partnership of the Year
Awards went to Long View Systems Corporation for Canada and SOMA
Inc. for the U.S. The 2008 VTN Spotlight Awards also marked the
first time a vendor channel chief was inducted into the Hall of
Fame. According to longtime VTN member and fellow 2008 Hall of Fame
inductee John DeRocker of Nexus Information Systems' Frank
Vitagliano has always been an avid support of VTN and is "truly in
a league of his own when it comes to understanding how to partner
with the channel and do right by solution providers." Ingram Micro
Vice President of Channel Marketing Kirk Robinson congratulates
both industry leaders on being named to the 2008 Hall of Fame,
applauding DeRocker for his unwavering commitment and valued
contributions to VTN and recognizing Vitagliano for setting the bar
early on during his time with IBM and getting to know the VTN
members and understanding what it takes to partner with them and
make them more successful. "The VentureTech Network is a standout
community that will always lead the industry and command the
attention of today's leading and emerging manufacturers not only
because of its growing sales potential, but because of the quality
and professionalism of its members," says Kirk Robinson, vice
president, channel marketing, Ingram Micro North America. "VTN
represents many of the IT industry's most successful and
forward-thinking solution providers and vendors. It's truly an
honor to recognize this select group of VTN partners and welcome
John and Frank into the VTN Hall of Fame." The winners of Ingram
Micro's 2008 VTN Spotlight Awards include: -- President's Awards
Greg Starr, I.T. Works (U.S.) and JoeAnne Hardy, WBM Office Systems
(Canada) -- Spirit Awards Randy Sklar, Sklar Technology Partners
(U.S) and Terry Buchanan, CONPUTE (Canada) -- Top Sales Growth HSMC
Technology Services (U.S.) and Next Dimension Inc. (Canada) --
Partnership SOMA Inc. (U.S) and Long View Systems Corporation
(Canada) -- Rookies of the Year ITMethods Inc. (U.S.) and Service
Assurance (Canada) -- Chapter of the Year Big Apple -- Chairman's
Awards Ted Warner, Connecting Point of Greeley (U.S.) and Peter
McMahon, Protek Systems (Canada) -- Hall of Fame John DeRocker,
Nexus Information Systems and Frank Vitagliano, Juniper Networks --
HP VTN MVP Computex (U.S.) and SSI Solutions (Canada) -- IBM
Spotlight Daly Computers (U.S.) and Data Integrity (Canada) --
Cisco Total Solution Xceptional Networks, Inc. (U.S) and Quartet
Service Inc. (Canada) -- Microsoft VTN PC Corp -- Brother VTN
Central Microsystems Inc. The 2008 Spotlight Awards ceremony was
hosted by Ingram Micro and vendor sponsors of the 2008 VentureTech
Network Fall Invitational which was held earlier this month in San
Diego, Calif. The annual awards were presented by Ingram Micro
executives and VTN team, as well as several manufacturer
representatives. About Ingram Micro As a vital link in the
technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and
profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical
support, financial services, and product aggregation and
distribution. The company serves 150 countries and is the only
broad-based global IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit
http://www.ingrammicro.com/. DATASOURCE: Ingram Micro Inc. CONTACT:
Marie Meoli of WhiteFox Marketing & Communications,
+1-714-680-0335, , for Ingram Micro Inc.
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