Westcon Middle East awarded AVAYA (MEA) Distributor of the Year 2011

Dubai, Untied Arab Emirates - Saturday, December 24th 2011 [ME NewsWire]

The global distributor Westcon sees it’s Middle East & North Africa company recognized at the AVAYA MEA Partner Conference for outstanding revenue growth and excellence in partner recruitment and development in 2011

Westcon, a value-add distributor of category-leading unified communications, infrastructure, data center, and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers, today announced the company has been awarded ‘Distributor of the Year 2011’ for the MEA region by Avaya.  The award was presented by  Nidal Abou-Itaif, Area Vice President, Emerging Markets to Asif Khan, Business Manager – AVAYA at Westcon along with Sayed Jawed, Divisional Manager Westcon Convergence and Steve Lockie, Group Managing Director, WestconME group and the Westcon team in front of more than 300 channel partners during Avaya's Partner Conference held last week at the Atlantis Hotel, Dubai, UAE.

Steve Lockie, Group Managing Director of Westcon Group Middle East & North Africa operations said “The award recognizes the fantastic work of all at Westcon who contributed to this result. We have a superb engagement with AVAYA and this represents a significant milestone in our agreement having only been actively distributing their products for less than 3 years. Our people and the engagement of the ‘Westcon Way’ recruit, enable and grow six step selling cycle has been key to the successful partner and market development mandated by AVAYA and we look forward to another successful year ahead with them’.

“WestconME recognized as the MEA ‘Distributor of the Year’ 2011, strengthens its position as a valued strategic Avaya partner and the True Value-Add elements offered towards the Success of the Channel Partners is commendable" said Tanya Lobo, Distribution & Channel Lead, Avaya Emerging Markets.

This award comes on the back of Westcon Group receiving the AVAYA EMEA Distributor of the Year last month at Avaya's Partner Conference in Berlin, Germany – Read more: click here For more information or to become a partner of AVAYA with WestconME Convergence,

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Steve Lockie, Managing Director,  WestconME Group

Tanya Lobo, Distribution & Channel Lead, Avaya Emerging Markets

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About WestconME

Westcon Middle Eastis a leading Value Add Distributor (VAD) of Convergence, Infrastructure, Mobility and Security products and solutions covering the Middle East and North Africa. We offer a portfolio of best in-class products, services and solutions from highly reputed vendor partners that interoperate with and compliment each other. Our highly qualified staff deliver outstanding support and unmatched relationship to our vendors and channel partners, including technical expertise, network design, sales consultancy, logistics and integrated marketing apart from holding a large inventory of products for immediate deliveries.

For more information visit www.westconme.com

Contacts

Westcon Middle East – Dubai

Ignatius Emanuel on:  +971 4 8839888

e-mail: ignatius.e@westconme.com