Ingram Micro's 2012 Spring VentureTech Network Invitational Celebrates Success and Focuses on Collaboration
May 02 2012 - 8:00AM
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Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today welcomed more than 600 IT
solution providers and vendor partners to the Spring 2012 North
American VentureTech Network (VTN) Invitational in Colorado
Springs, Colo. Themed "Partner. Prosper. Repeat," this four-day
event (#VTN2012) is designed to fuel the collaboration between
Ingram Micro and its top partners, and drive greater growth and
comradery across the entire community.
With the majority of its member organizations actively
partnering with one another on an ongoing basis, VTN remains the
industry's top-performing North America partner community --
bringing new and higher value IT solutions to market. Further
demonstrating this success, the VTN community and four of its
founding members were recently inducted into the IT Hall of Fame by
CompTIA.
"For more than a decade, the Ingram Micro VTN community has
played an instrumental role within the IT industry and continues to
serve as an advocate for the channel and as a strategic advisory
board to Ingram Micro and our VTN manufacturer partners," says John
Fago, senior director of channel marketing, Ingram Micro North
America.
"This year, we are investing in more ways to embed the
collaborative nature of VTN deeper into our members' organizations
in order to create increased value that will ultimately net greater
prosperity for our members, vendors and Ingram Micro," says Fago.
"These efforts will also benefit the IT channel at large by
demonstrating firsthand how partnering smart with Ingram Micro will
lead to greater success in both the short and long-term."
In 2012, the VTN community is striving to achieve 100 percent
peer-to-peer partnership within the community and ensure that the
benefits of VTN are enjoyed throughout each member organization.
Fago says this two-pronged goal is "within reach and will
definitely build on the success of the VTN community and generate
even greater business value."
Best-Selling Author and Top Executives Address
VTN Community VTN will continue its tradition of attracting
top business keynote speakers when Keith Ferrazzi, author of New
York Times bestseller, "Who's Got Your Back," takes the stage.
Ferrazzi is founder and chairman of Ferrazzi GreenLight, a
strategic relationship management consulting firm that has been
offering business relationship guidance for nearly 20 years.
Several top Ingram Micro executives, including Paul Bay, executive
vice president, Ingram Micro North America; Renee Bergeron, vice
president of cloud and managed services, Ingram Micro North
America; and Mark Snider, vice president and general manager,
Ingram Micro Canada, will also address the community on how Ingram
Micro is generating more IT business opportunity for its partner
base.
Additionally, IT leaders including Harris Warsaw of IBM, Alison
Gleeson and Kerry McDonough of Cisco, Mike Parrottino of HP, and
Chris Frey of Lenovo will share industry insights and business
growth opportunities with the VTN community. Plus, reality show
star Buddy Valastro, owner of Carlo's Bakery, will share how
Exigent Technologies, a VTN member, helped migrate his bakery from
pencil-and-paper to cutting-edge technology to empower and support
the bakery's fantastic growth.
VTN Members Learn from Each Other and Give Back
to LIVESTRONG Organization Throughout the event, members will
have the opportunity to participate in peer-to-peer networking
opportunities, a managed print services boot camp, targeted
breakout sessions and member-led presentations focused on business
best practices, cloud, social media, sales compensation and more.
The event will also feature a technology fair and a "VTN Gives
Back" charity event benefitting the LIVESTRONG organization. In 2011, members of the VTN
Pacific West Chapter generated $21,000 for the LIVESTRONG organization.
The Ingram Micro VTN community is represented by 328 unique
partner organizations throughout North America. Ingram Micro VTN
members are recognized among the IT industry's best, brightest and
most successful solution providers and MSPs throughout North
America.
For more information on VTN, solution providers and
manufacturers should contact their Ingram Micro sales or marketing
representative and visit www.im-vtn.com. VTN is also active on
Twitter. Follow the VTN Community at www.twitter.com/VTNcommunity.
The 2012 VTN Invitational Twitter hash tag is #VTN2012.
For more information on Ingram Micro visit
www.ingrammicro.com.
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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, technical and
financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product
aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global
broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries on six continents
with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and
services. Visit http://www.ingrammicro.com/.
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Press contact: Marie Rourke WhiteFox Marketing (For
Ingram Micro Inc.) Marie@whitefoxpr.com (714) 292-2199
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