The pandemic has changed the landscape for us all, and none more so than eventing. Goodness, I miss Comic Con, rAge, GES Cosplay, and industry launch events, and so many more touchy-feely things! Can’t wait to be (safely) spat on by microphone wielding people again.
Speaking of microphone wielding… NAG virtually witnessed the Lenovo awards evening with MC extraordinaire J’Something (or other) from the epic Mi Casa.
It was a glitzy affair albeit virtual and is an important progress report of the industry we are all a part of. Stock issues and navigating the Rona landscape is daunting for any part of the sales channel, so recognising achievements is important. Besides, I can not think of a single reason why anyone would not want to make our fellow humans smile and feel the love.
Here are the #LenovoChannelAwards winners, congrats from NAG to you all.
- Lenovo’s Silver Partners of the year, Carerra Holding and Collaboration IT.
- Gold Partners, Introstat and Tectight
- Platinum Partners, First Technology and Datacentrix
- Lenovo’s Commercial Distributor SADC partner of the year, Channel IT
- Lenovo’s Commercial Distributor of the year, Drive Control
- Distributor of the year award, First Distribution
- Lenovo’s Service Partners of the year, Pinnacle and Technology Corporate Management (TCM)
- Lenovo’s Commercial Value-Added Partner of the year, Omni Digital
- The Consumer SADC Partner of the year winner, SuperDist
- Lenovo’s Consumer Retailer of the year, awarded to, Incredible Connection
- The Consumer Distributor of the year, Mustek
Individuals were also recognised, with Lee Bowes bagging the Service award, Ferial Pillay the Consumer and Paul Fanaroff Champion of the year award. I kinda feel like Paul got the golden nugget.
- The Lenovo Commercial deals of the year, awarded to David Cornelli, Ashika Basdeo and Lenin David.
- Fozia Martin bagged Lenovo’s Commercial Champion award, whilst Ketan Jeevan and Susan Davies, the Product managers of the year.
- Trevor Van Zyl, is Lenovo’s Industry Executive of the year. Yay!
Smiles all around then.
Mi Casa closed the evening off by performing some of their incredible tracks and I danced in my sexy trackpants (Hellz, yeah, I did…!)