Everything Channel Names Advisory Board for Inaugural Best of Breed Conference

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything Channel, a UBM company, today announced the advisory board members for its inaugural Best of Breed (BoB) Conference. With a format designed to set the agenda for the future of the channel, advisory board members from the most forward thinking solutions providers will ensure an audience-driven point of view is represented throughout the event. This unique channel industry conference will take place on October 24-26th at the St Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, CA. For more information or to register please visit www.bobconference.com.

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Inaugural advisory board members include:

• John Barnes, Chief Technology Officer - Model Metrics
• Eric Berridge, Co-Founder, Principal - Bluewolf
• Jere A. Brown, CEO - Dimension Data, Americas
• Robert Cagnazzi, CEO of BlueWater - Communications Group LLC
• Daniel DiSano, President & CEO - Axispoint
• Jim Dixon, President & CEO - CompuCom Systems, Inc.
• Ron Dupler, CEO - GreenPages Technology Solutions
• Steve Fazio, CEO - TorreyPoint
• Gary Fish, Founder & CEO - FishNet Security, Inc
• Tom Hinds, President & COO - Business Communications, Inc.
• Shiv Kumar, EVP - ZSL, Inc.
• Rick Marcotte, CEO - DLT Solutions
• Frank Scozzari, SVP Sales - Ergonomic Group
• Douglas Vercellotti, CEO - Logics One
• Bob Venero, President & CEO - Future Tech Enterprise, Inc.
• Harry Zarek, President and CEO - Compugen Inc.

"I am excited to be part of the team responsible for planning Everything Channel's Best of Breed Conference. This unique event will unite the leaders of some of the most innovative companies in technology services, giving them real, actionable tips from experts in our space on how to grow their organizations. I encourage my peers to attend, and look forward to seeing them in Monarch Beach in October," commented Daniel DiSano, CEO of Axispoint.

As the channel experiences unprecedented business model changes, solution providers and vendors alike are struggling to determine the best way to not only survive, but advance. Unlike any other event in the industry, the Best of Breed Conference will bring the industry's best and brightest together to set the channel agenda. By encouraging healthy dialogue among peers, exchanging ideas and learning from each other, channel executives can challenge one another to determine the best ways to grow sales and profit.  

"We have been thrilled with the positive feedback received for this event, and our advisory board members are a big part of that success. Together we have sought out to defy the status quo when it comes to channel events and have established a new kind of conference that is created and driven by the very people it was intended for," said Robert DeMarzo, Senior Vice President of Strategic Content for Everything Channel. "It's about coming together as an industry to talk candidly about the challenges that exist, the strategies to overcome them and how we as a collective group can set the channel agenda."

To view the full agenda visit: http://bobconference.com/agenda/

Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/everythingchnl.

UBM plc (www.ubm.com)

UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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Betzi-Lynn Hanc, Marketing Manager
Everything Channel
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