2026 Finalists
15
Best AI Solution Provider
AHEAD
Bespin Global US
Caylent
CBTS
Chetu, Inc.
Compucom
Connection
ePlus Technology
Insight
Mission Cloud, a CDW Company
Quantiphi
rSTAR Technologies, LLC
SHI International Corp
TOGA Technology
WBM Technologies
14
Best Channel Achiever of the Year
Ahmet Polat, Timus
Amanda Stewart, Microsoft
Brook Lee, Rev.io
Candace Montoya, Wildix
Jason Bystrak, D&H Distributing
Kerry Lafferty, Progress Software
Laura Muysenberg, People Driven Technology
Lisa Citron, F5
Michelle Becka, Ingram Micro Inc.
Mitch Diodato, Infinidat
Saurabh Mishra, Quantiphi Inc
Tim Hall, Blackwood
Willa Flemate, TD SYNNEX
Zuzana Piling, Microsoft
15
Best Channel Chief of the Year
Beata Reimer, Dayforce
Gretchen O'Hara, Sage
Hope Galley, Everpure
Jennifer Heard, Red Hat
John Britton, SilverSky
Karl Soderland, Cato Networks
Lisa Citron, F5
Matthew Harrell, Dataminr
Michael Day, GoTo Technologies
Michael Park, ServiceNow
Nick Tidd, Zoom Communications, Inc.
Scott Unger, Keeper Security
Shiraz Hasan, AT&T Business l AT&T Partner Solutions
Tracie Orisko, Huntress Labs
Wade McFarland, Lenovo
13
Best Channel Marketing Team of the Year
AireSpring
Balata Data
Carahsoft Technology Corp
Commvault
D&H Distributing
Eaton
Expel
Ingram Micro Global Channel Marketing
Lenovo
Schneider Electric
TD SYNNEX
Veeam Software
Zscaler
18
Best Channel Team of the Year
Arctic Wolf
Balata Data
D&H Distributing
Infinidat, a Lenovo company
Intermedia Intelligent Communications
Lenovo
Meter
Object First
Omnissa
OpenText
Pax8
Qlik
Red Hat, Inc.
Scale Computing
ServiceNow
Slide
TD SYNNEX
VDURA
7
Best Channel Visionary of the Year - Solution Provider
Brian Gagnon, Uprise Partners
Corey L. Kirkendoll, 5K Technical Services
Jason Blevins, TOGA Technology
Jim Keller, Quantiphi
Joe Cicero, Security Risk Advisors
John Hurley, Optiv
Peter Mirabile, ConRes
14
Best Channel Visionary of the Year - Vendor/Distributor
Ahmet Polat, Timus
Beata Reimer, Dayforce
Chris Day, ScalePad
Eric Herzog, Infinidat
Gordon Lord, Schneider Electric
Jana Whitcomb, BlackCloak
Jeremy Young, Huntress Labs
Jimmy Hatzell, Hatz AI
Laurie Fontaine, Red Hat
Meredith Payne, TD SYNNEX
Mitch Saunders, Balata Data
Mukund Gopalan, Ingram Micro Inc.
Renu Upadhyay, Omnissa
Zuzana Piling, Microsoft
10
Best Emerging Leader of the Year
Adam Crockett, D&H Distributing
Beata Reimer, Dayforce
Bri Berry, TD SYNNEX
Duygu Erden, Timus
Jim Sullivan, Mitiga
Kayla Hanson, Evolving Solutions, Inc.
Kelsey Gipe, People Driven Technology
Lance Lanford, ViewSonic Corporation
Meryl Thomas, Quantiphi Inc
Stacie Nadeau, Ingram Micro Inc.
9
Best Solution Provider CEO of the Year
Anthony J. D'Ambrosi, Abacus
Anthony Romero, TOGA Technology
Bryan Teipel, People Driven Technology
Chris Vincent, Global Data Systems, Inc.
Jaime Gmach, Evolving Solutions, Inc.
Jennifer Roy, Nucleus Networks
Jon Groves, Logicalis US
Richard M. Boudria, Jr., BCN Telecom
Stan Oliver, DigiFlight and Camelot Secure
17
Best Solution Provider of the Year
Avahi
AVI-SPL
Calian Corp
Compucom
Connection
DXC Technology
ePlus Technology
Evolving Solutions, Inc.
Framework IT, LLC
GuidePoint Security
Insight
Microserve
NWN
People Driven Technology
Quantiphi
SHI International
Thrive
12
Best Solution Provider Team of the Year
Calian Corp
ConRes
ECMSI
Evolving Solutions, Inc.
GuidePoint Security
Microserve
Nucleus Networks
PKA Technologies, Inc.
Quantiphi
Ravanty Tech Consulting, Inc.
Tego
The 20
19
Best Vendor of the Year
Arctic Wolf
Cloudflare, Inc.
Compliance Scorecard
Dataminr
Exclaimer
Granite Telecommunications
Halo
HP Inc.
inforcer
JetStream Security
Lenovo
Monjur
NetApp
OptiCool
Red Hat
ServiceNow
Slide
Sonar
Zoom Communications, Inc.
18
NEW! Best AI Vendor of the Year
Arctic Wolf
Atera
Compliance Scorecard
Concentric AI
Cyera
Cynomi
Dataminr
Guardare, Inc.
Harmonic Security
Hatz AI
Intermedia Intelligent Communications
Kentik
Lenovo
LogicMonitor
SentinelOne
SolarWinds
Viirtue, Inc
Wildix
15
NEW! Best Security Solution Provider of the Year
Bespin Global US
Blue Mantis
Calian Corp
DYOPATH
ePlus Technology
Epoch Concepts
Fortuna Cysec
GuidePoint Security
People Driven Technology
Ravanty Tech Consulting, Inc.
RedZone Technologies
Stratascale
Sycomp A Technology Company, Inc.
TOGA Technology
World Wide Technology
18
NEW! Best Security Vendor of the Year