PHONE+ magazine is pleased to announce the finalists for Channel Executive of the Year 2009. The finalists will be honored and the winner will be named during the welcoming remarks at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, March 1-3, in Las Vegas. In addition, the finalists and winner will be featured in the April issue of PHONE+.

The Channel Executive of the Year finalists are:

“PHONE+ is pleased to provide a forum to honor those executives who provide exemplary leadership and service within the indirect channel,” said Mike Saxby, group publisher for PHONE+. “Hundreds of votes were received and it was a very close race.”

To determine the Channel Executive of the Year, PHONE+ solicited nominations from channel partners. To be eligible, a nominee must have been the top person in the company’s channel operations – at the executive level of vice president or higher – at a telecom vendor (network operator/service provider/manufacturer). Channel partners were then asked to vote for the Channel Executive of the Year based on nominees’ leadership, longevity, innovation and contribution to the indirect channel.