The annual TBI Big Event was held in Chicago at the historic Soldier Field on May 9th, bringing together some of the largest vendors and most knowledgeable industry experts in the channel.
At the event kick-off, Granite Telecommunications, a $1.4 billion provider of communications services to multilocation businesses and government agencies, presented a ceremonial check to JDRF representatives and announced a $10,000 donation to JDRF to fund diabetes research.
Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Joy Alfafara of Comcast.
Joy is a Partner Sales Manager in the Chicago region working within the Indirect Channel Sales Organization for Comcast Business for the last four years. She works with local solutions providers supplying sales support and helping to grow their business through the Comcast Business portfolio with offerings that include SD-WAN, Ethernet, Advanced Voice Services, and SMB products.
The Master Agent names their first woman to join the executive team
CHICAGO – MAY 1, 2019 – The largest, privately-owned master agent and technology distributor, TBI (formerly Telecom Brokerage Inc.) announced the promotion of Corey Cohen from Director of Marketing to Vice President of Marketing. This promotion makes Corey the first woman to join the master agent’s now seven person executive team.
Master Agent and technology distributor TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Leah Bromley of AT&T.
Leah is currently a Regional Director for AT&T in the Alliance Channel. She has more than 20+ years experience working at AT&T, all within in the channel programs. She leads a team of channel managers and technical sellers that provide local support for master agents in the Western Region of the United States.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel Brigid O'Brien from TBI
Brigid is currently a National Channel Manager at telecom master agent, TBI, supporting west coast partners. She has 20+ yrs of experience working in Channels within the telecommunications/technology sector.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel Kathryn Wilkie from TBI
Kathryn began her TBI career as a Sales Trainer where she was responsible for on-boarding new partners and providing training around TBI’s resources, support processes and solutions' implementations for our partners’ customers.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jody Hagemann of Comcast Business.
Jody is the Senior Director of Product Management at Comcast Business. She has more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications, specifically service operations design, new product/feature launch, product-to-product migration and life cycle management.
The opportunities for CCaaS sales are not limited to a specific vertical or business size; companies of all sizes and of all verticals want to reap the rewards of customer satisfaction and loyalty, both of which ultimately have direct impact on their topline revenue in the form of things like decreased customer churn, increased lifetime value of a customer and increased customer advocacy. They also see additional operational benefits in improved agent utilization and lower total cost of ownership.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Iris Martell of Comcast Business.
Iris Martell is a Regional Channel Manager for Comcast Business. She is a 17-year telecom veteran with several top performer and over achievement awards to her credit.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Sammi Doti from TBI
Sammi is the Enterprise Business Development Manager at TBI and has been with TBI since November of 2012. She started in the call center and six months later was promoted to quote for TBI’s Enterprise Partners.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Laura Buttimer of Mitel
Laura Buttimer is currently the National Channel Manager at Mitel, where she has been for over seven years, mostly in a Channel Manager role.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Hope Onweller from TBI
Hope is a Program Manager at TBI in our Post Sales department and has been with TBI since September of 2004.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jasmina Muller of 8x8
Jasmina Muller is currently the Regional Vice President for the Channel West at 8x8. She came to 8x8 in July of 2018 looking to expand her career within the cloud industry. Coming from a telco background of more than 20+ years, Jasmina needed to see what else was out there. With so many companies looking to be the next best "transformation" company, she says, she really liked the vision and story behind 8x8. They are the only cloud company to own their technology stack from the start and unite voice, video, chat and contact center onto one platform.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jessica Lattanzio from TBI
As a Senior Account Manager at TBI, Jessica is responsible for managing and supporting a team of inside sales reps on the the Verizon Mass Markets team and is based out of our Portland office.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jenny Ruttman of BCN Telecom
Jenny Ruttman is currently the Marketing & Sales Enablement Manager at BCN and has over 15 years of B2B-focused marketing experience spanning many industries.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Estera Pecura from TBI
As a Senior Account Manager at TBI, Estera is responsible for managing and supporting a team of inside sales reps on the the Verizon Mass Markets team. Her responsibilities include empowering her team with coaching, reviews, and all the tools they need to sell Verizon in the SMB market.
TBI's Marco Sanchez kicks off The Sales Series addressing common questions partners ask around security. In this series, partners learn about what we're hearing in the field around specific solutions and best practices to implement with their customers.
TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Kathy Ann Flick of Windstream
Kathy Ann is a Partner Development Director on Windstream's Enterprise channel team with over 15 years of management and executive experience in the industry. Kathy Ann specializes in successfully building partner relationships from the ground up with an iconoclastic view.
As you discuss security plans with your customers, taking a layered approach is the best way to achieve a sound security strategy. Download our solutions sheet to understand internal, external and 3rd party security solutions that you can offer to your customers today.
CHICAGO, IL – February 1, 2018 - TBI, the white-glove solutions delivery provider, continuing the tradition of positioning itself at the forefront of the IT landscape through new strategic partnerships added two new vendors in January. The addition of Hosting.com and Nexvortex not only provides partners with new sets of solutions, but also offers additional resources for end-user engagement. As always, TBI’s solution engineers are accessible to help all selling partners confidently position, design and implement the new portfolio additions.
