Autodesk Recognizes Elite Platinum Club of Top-Performing Resellers
Inductees Upheld as Examples in Outstanding Customer Service and Sales Performance
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At its recent annual channel partner conference, One Team Conference (OTC), Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) honored 48 value-added resellers by inducting them into Platinum Club 2008, an elite group recognized for top sales performance and outstanding customer service in fiscal year 2008.
"The Autodesk Platinum Club comprises a talented group of professionals dedicated to our customers," said Steve Blum, Autodesk senior vice president of Americas Sales. "By helping customers take advantage of Autodesk's innovative digital design software and encouraging the adoption of forward-thinking capabilities such as digital modeling and visualization, these resellers are enabling customers to gain insight into the impact and function of their design ideas before they are real."
Autodesk Platinum Club members include channel partners who have excelled in sales, growth and other key measures. The Platinum Club also includes channel partners who were the leading education, government or distribution partners in their Americas sales region.
Platinum Club 2008 Winners Category Partner/Winner Principal/Individual Winner 25 Years as an Applied Software Autodesk VAR Technology, Inc. Richard Burroughs, III 25 Years as an Autodesk VAR Autodraft, Inc. Claire Botkin 25 Years as an CADD Centers of Autodesk VAR Florida, Inc. Richard Neiman 25 Years as an Autodesk VAR IRISCO Ricardo Talbort 25 Years as an Autodesk VAR Kelar Corporation Mo Mansouri 25 Years as an KETIV Technologies of Autodesk VAR CA, Inc. Kanwar Anand 25 Years as an Robotech CAD Autodesk VAR Solutions, Inc. Shlomo Marom Canada Media and Entertainment Criteria Annex Pro Kerry Corlett Canada Top BSD Growth Autodraft, Inc. Claire Botkin Canada Top MSD Growth IRISCO Ricardo Talbort Canada Top Reseller CAD Microsolutions, in Total Volume Inc. Brad Porter Customer Loyalty - Truly Loyal CAD Masters, Inc. Michael Self Customer Loyalty - Truly Loyal JVH Engineering, Inc. James Jacobitz Education Growth CVIS Dr. William Rice Education Volume Torcomp, Inc. Frank Nanfara FY'08 Reseller of the Year D3 TECHNOLOGIES Kevin Schlack ISV Partner - Total Volume 2020 Technologies Steve Compton ISV Partner - YOY Open Archive/Service Growth Point Dave Wilson Latin America Media and Entertainment Francisco Tripiano Criteria Cadritech & Claudia Possenti Latin America Top Distributor Highest % of Quota PARS Pedro Da Silva Latin America Top Distributor YOY Growth Incotel Gustavo Crescio Latin America Top Reseller in Total Volume COMGRAP Gabriela Ward Latin America Top Vertical Reseller Mapdata Paulo Eduardo Onuchic M&E Systems - Most Valued Reseller Award AltSystems, Inc Lauren Guess M&E Systems - Most Valued Reseller Award CineSys, Inc. Mike Winkelmann Marketing Excellence MasterGraphics, Inc. Darin Tessier Media and Entertainment Austin Business Criteria (E) Computers Barbara Bottorf Media and Entertainment Criteria (E) RFX Ray Feeney Rookie Partner of InterWEST Technology the Year Group (ITG) Jeremy Hale Top "Shooting Star" Sandra Birmaher Sandra Birmaher Applied Technology Top Bookings Growth Group, Inc. Scott Landers Top Subscription CADD Microsystems, Renewal Inc. Jeff Gravatte Top US Government Reseller - Growth Microdesk, Inc. Michael Delacey Top US Government The D.C. CADD Reseller - Volume Company, Inc. Doug Wietbrock Vertical Awards - Microsol Resources M&E V Growth Corp. Emilio Krausz Vertical Awards - Top BSD Growth The PPI Group Tigue Howe Vertical Awards - Top BSD Volume Ideate, Inc. Bob Palioca Vertical Awards - Top ISD Volume Comm-Tech Mike Ontiveros Vertical Awards - Total Cad Systems, Top ISD-C Growth Inc. Roger Padamada Vertical Awards - Top ISD-G Growth Avatech Solutions George Davis Vertical Awards - Advanced Micro Top MSD Growth Systems, Inc. Brad Whittemore Vertical Awards - Top MSD Volume ALACAD Kirk Newell Volume Sales Awards - AutoCAD Map 3D Construction Industry Seats Solutions, Corp. Sharon Lechon Volume Sales Awards Applied Software - Revit Seats Technology, Inc. Richard Burroughs, III Volume Sales Awards - Total Volume (1st) U.S. Cad, Inc. Danny Counts Volume Sales Awards - Total Volume (2nd) ECAD, Inc. Carole Eckert Volume Sales Awards- Autodesk Inventor Suite/Autodesk Inventor Synergis Professional Seats Technologies, Inc. Betty Broza Volume Sales Awards- AutoCAD Civil 3D Seats CAD-1, Inc. James Sirko, P.E.
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