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Aruba Channel Awards honour outstanding partners across the region
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ruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company, has hosted its annual channel
awards ceremony at The H Hotel in Dubai,
to recognise and honour the achievements
of its distributor and reseller partners in the
Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
The gala dinner was well attended by
channel executives from across the region.
are proud to recognise those that have
attained exceptional results. I would like to
commend all of this year’s winners for their
accomplishments in their respective fields.”
Categories and winners of the 2019
Aruba Channel Awards include: Competitive
Win of the Year: GBC; Growth Partner of the
Year: Global Technologies for Trading and
Contracting; System Integrator Partner of the
Year: MDS Computers; SMB Business Partner
of the Year: Asir Bilgisayar; Public Sector
Partner of the Year: STCS; Education Partner
of the Year: Click ITS; and BFSI Partner of the
Year: NeoGenesis Technical Solutions.
Aruba recognised three distributors
and 17 reseller partners for their exemplary
performance across several vertical and
growth categories.
Osama AlHaj-Issa, Regional Channel
Director, Middle East, Turkey and Africa
at HPE Aruba, said: “The Aruba awards
commemorate and acknowledge the role
our partners play in driving the company’s
development and ‘customer-first customer-
last’ mantra. We are committed to helping
our partners grow their business and
2019 Aruba Channel
Award winners
ServiceNow appoints new vice president for EMEA
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Sebastian Fitzjohn, Vice
President, Alliances and
Channel Ecosystem, EMEA
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erviceNow, a leading digital
workflow company that makes
the world of work, work better
for people, has announced the
appointment of Sebastian Fitzjohn
as Vice President, Alliances and
Channel Ecosystem, Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA).
Fitzjohn will be responsible for
helping to enable and accelerate the
ServiceNow partner ecosystem, and
for implementing the new global
operating model for alliances and
channel Ecosystem in EMEA. This
operating model is aimed at driving
new sales and delivery capability and
capacity for the Now Platform across
a vibrant and growing ecosystem.
Fitzjohn brings to his position
20 years of experience in
transformational settings, covering
both direct and partner sales
leadership roles. Prior to joining
ServiceNow, he spent four years at
VMware as Senior Director for the
EMEA global system integrator and
system outsourcer business.
“At ServiceNow, our focus is
helping customers accelerate their
digital agenda by automating
workflows in a way that delivers
amazing end-user experiences and
significant business value,” said
Fitzjohn. “To this end, we see partner
success as being synonymous with
customer success. By working
together we believe there is huge
opportunity to accelerate growth
for both ServiceNow and our
partners, through a laser focus on
delivering business outcomes for
our joint customers.”