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Channel celebrities honoured at Partner Excellence Awards 2016

Reseller Middle East celebrated the seventh edition of its annual Partner Excellence Awards, at Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Dubai.group photo rme 16

The event recognised and celebrated the achievements of IT channel players in the region who have stood out and excelled in their respective fields over the last year. It featured a red carpet and VIP reception for IT channel luminaries, all in true Oscars-style.

CPI Media Group Technology and Finance Division Publishing Director Rajashree Rammohan kicked off the evening’s festivities with a warm welcome note. “We are proud to bestow our highest recognition to the channel players in the IT industry, who despite a challenging market, has enhanced their businesses and excelled over the last year.”

The event also featured a welcome keynote by Basil Ayass, Marketing Director, Dell, where he commended the achievements of the channel industry over the years and the commitment that the channel players have demonstrated despite recent market challenges. “Progress cannot be achieved without change. Having the right business mindset, hard work and staying positive even during the toughest times in the market will help organisations achieve progress and excellence.”

The 2016 edition of the awards programme received an overwhelming number of 300 nominations spanning across 21 categories for vendors, distributors and reseller categories. The evening also saw a number of special awards given away including Readers’ Choice for Vendor and Distributor, which was decided by Reseller ME readers via online voting and was won by Avaya Middle East and Logicom Distributions accordingly.

Reseller ME’s editorial team also recognised individuals and organisations for seven of the Editor’s Choice category accolades, winners include Havier Haddad, EMC Middle East – Partner Champion of the Year; Sherifa Hady, HP – Woman Executive of the Year; Steve Lockie, Westcon Group – Outstanding Executive of the Year- IT channel; Haider Salloum, Microsoft Gulf – Outstanding Executive of the Year- Vendor; StarLink ME – Best Growth Initiative by a Distributor; and Editor’s Choice of the Year – Credence Security.

The most prestigious category of the evening, Best Partner Excellence Programme, both from a distributor and a vendor was awarded to Huawei Middle East and Redington Gulf Value Distribution respectively.

The full length of winners were as follows:

Networking Vendor of the Year Cisco
Software Vendor of the Year SAP
Mobility Vendor of the Year Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
Security Vendor of the Year of the Year Dell Security
Peripherals and Accessories Vendor of the Year Xerox Corporation
Systems & Hardware Vendor of the Year Dell
SMB Consumer Vendor of the Year Microsoft Gulf
Best Growth Initiative by a Vendor TP-LINK
Reseller / SI / Retailer categories
Super Retailer of the Year axiom telecom
Systems Integrator of the Year Gulf Business Machines (GBM)
Enterprise Reseller of the Year Alpha Data
SMB & Consumer Reseller of the Year Quality Computers
Distributor categories
Volume Distributor of the Year Redington Gulf
Networking Distributor of the Year Westcon-Comstor
Mobility Distributor of the Year Oxygen ME
Security Distributor of the Year Aptec – an Ingram Micro company
Specialised Distributor of the Year Exclusive Nettworks
Value-added Distributor of the Year Mindware
KSA Distributor of the Year AlJammaz Distribution
Emerging Distributor of the Year Go Green
Best Growth Initiative by a Distributor StarLink
Readers’ Choice Vendor of the Year Avaya
Readers’ Choice Distributor of the Year Logicom
Editor’s Choice
Partner Champion of the year Havier Haddad, EMC
Woman Executive of the Year Sherifa Hady, HP
Outstanding Executive of the Year- IT channel Steve Lockie, Westcon Group
Outstanding Executive of the Year- Vendor Haider Salloum, Microsoft Gulf
Editor’s Choice of the Year Credence Security
Best Partner Excellence Programme of the Year Redington Gulf Value Distribution
Best Partner Excellence Programme of the Year Huawei Middle East

 

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