I’m thrilled to report that several members of our channel team were recently recognized by The Channel Company, publisher of CRN magazine. It’s an honor for our people to be recognized by such an influential voice in channel publishing.
CRN’s 100 People You Don’t Know But Should
Earlier this month, CRN magazine selected three Symantec executives for its annual list, “100 People You Don’t Know But Should.” The magazine’s feature story recognized rising stars in the channel community, including Symantec’s own Rick Kramer, John Emard and Jana Valenti.
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Jana Valenti |
Rick Kramer has recently been promoted to Vice President, North America Channel Sales. In this role, Rick will lead our continued rollout of the redesigned Partner Program this fall. With 20 years of experience, Rick is a sales leader committed to solving customer data and security problems in the evolving digital world.
John Emard, Senior Director of North American Channel Operations and Programs, is responsible for the overall productivity and effectiveness of Symantec’s North America Channel Sales organization. John is an IT channel veteran with 15 years of industry experience building direct and indirect sales teams. He has extensive management experience in sales and operations across the information security and information management landscape.
Jana Valenti, Director of Channel Marketing, develops marketing strategy, plans and programs at Symantec to support indirect sales channels, including North American resellers, solution providers and managed service providers. Jana is a dynamic and results-driven senior IT marketing professional with more than 15 years of industry experience, including nearly 10 years with Symantec.
Top 50 Midmarket IT Vendor Executive
This past September, John Belle, Symantec’s Vice President of Inside Sales, was recognized on this year’s Top 50 Midmarket IT Vendor Executive list. In this role, John focuses on improving the customer and partner experience within the midmarket, building ways to align the company’s solutions to customer business needs and creating lifetime customer value. John drives alignment between sales, marketing, operations and development within Symantec to ensure that our company’s offerings are developed and brought to market with midsized customer in mind.
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John Belle |
I want to thank Rick Kramer, John Emard, Jana Valenti and John Belle for their incredible contributions to our channel program. It’s an exciting time to be at Symantec and it’s great to see this recognition for our team. To read more about these leaders at Symantec, be sure to check CRN’s online slideshows, “100 People You Don’t Know But Should” and the “Top 50 Midmarket IT Vendor Executives For 2014.”