Winners were announced at an exclusive SMB Awards Reception at the Rivera Restaurant in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 13.  These awards recognized the excellence and achievement of West Region SMB VARs who worked innovatively to produce exceptional results across the business. On hand to congratulate the award winners was special guest, Cindy Bates, Vice President of U.S. Small and Medium Business.

• West Region GM Award: Recognizes a partner that has exceptional accomplishments in FY11 with the Microsoft West SMB&D team and our shared customers.
  • Winner – Arctic IT
• Partner Marketing Excellence: Recognizes a partner who constantly seek to improve their marketing processes and achieve highest marketing ROI. It also recognizes partners who leverage and build on Microsoft’s Go-to-Market campaigns to reach customers and help solve business problems using Microsoft technologies and programs.
  • Winner – J4 Systems
• Cloud Partner of the Year: Recognizes the partner who has demonstrated a commitment to Microsoft Cloud business (BPOS, Office 365, Intune, Azure) through consistent marketing of cloud services, and more importantly, resulting in customer adoptions of the Cloud solution set. Components of this award will include number of customers added, number of seats added, and overall impact on the market (press/publication, etc.) 
  • Winner – InfinIT Consulting, Inc.
• VAR Champion Partner of the Year: Recognizes the partner that closes a significant amount of SMB Open software sales with highest YoY growth by teaming with Microsoft, using the available sales and marketing resources, all resulting in high ROI for the partner and Microsoft. Must be current VAR Champion Club partner. 
  • Winner – SWI
• Software Assurance Partner of the Year: Recognizes the partner that demonstrates an exceptional ability to impart the value of new and renewal annuity agreements to our shared end customers. The partner has strong commitment, process and results in capturing SMD Open renewals as well as new product attach. 
  • Winner – General Networks
• Compete Partner of the Year: Recognizes the partner that demonstrates winning against our competition in key workloads such as Cloud & Virtualization.  This can be based on direct or influenced revenue.
  • Winner – 6^th Street Consulting

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNING SMB WEST REGION PARTNERS!

Tiffany Sequeira, CEO, J4 Systems; Suzanne Lavine, Partner Territory Manager US SMB West Region; Benny Madrid, Regional General Manager US SMB West Region; Cindy Bates, VP US SMB

Benny Madrid, Regional General Manager US SMB West Region; Glenn Osako, Partner Territory Manager US SMB West Region; Ro Kolakowski, Partner, 6th Street Consulting; Cindy Bates, VP US SMB                   

 Benny Madrid, Regional General Manager US SMB West Region; John Hermann, Partner Territory Manager US SMB West Region; Cindy Bates, VP US SMB; Cort Baker, VP of Sales, General Networks

Benny Madrid, Regional General Manager US SMB West Region; Suzanne Lavine, Partner Territory Manager US SMB West Region; Jerod Powell, CEO, InfinIT Consulting; Cindy Bates, VP US SMB 

Benny Madrid, Regional General Manager US SMB West Region; John Hermann, Partner Territory Manager US SMB West Region; Stuart Robertson, President, SWI; Pam Robertson, SWI; Cindy Bates, VP US SMB

Benny Madrid, Regional General Manager US SMB West Region; Mark Mathis, Account Executive- Network Infrastructure, ArticIT; Cindy Bates, VP US SMB