Extreme Networks celebrates ANZ partners on the Gold Coast

Extreme Networks has celebrated ANZ partners at an awards ceremony during its inaugural ANZ Partner Circle, held on the Gold Coast with 50 partners in attendance. 

The company said the event was held to set its FY22 channel strategy and recognise the achievements of high-performing partners across the Australian and New Zealand channel.

“Extreme Networks has gained significant momentum in the ANZ marketplace this financial year, achieving year-on-year growth. This is the result of major wins in Federal and State Government, healthcare and transportation positioning our competitive, market leading cloud networking solutions,” said Extreme Networks Australia and New Zealand general manager Julian Critchlow. 

“As a 100 percent channel-focused business, partners are the backbone of our organisation and we could not have achieved this growth without the commitment of our channel. It was fantastic to host 50 partners from across Australia and New Zealand at our three-day event on the Gold Coast where we celebrated mutual successes, heard from our global leadership team and recognised key channel achievements in the region.”

Click through or use your arrow keys to see who the winners were, followed by some photos from the event. 

ANZ Partner of the Year FY21 – CompNow 

For a major win in the higher education market and deals in the private K-12 education and serviced office markets plus the establishment of a national cloud networking practice.

L-R: James Roche, Jon Tapia (CompNow),  Julian Critchlow (Extreme Networks), Harold Weeks, Madison Bestic, Phillip Miranda (CompNow)

ANZ Managed Services Partner of the Year FY21  – Intuit Technologies

For strong results selling network-as-a-service to Australian businesses.

Julian Critchlow (Extreme Networks) and Phil Dickman (Intuit Technologies)

ANZ Technical Partner of the Year FY21 - Datacom

For training 11 engineers and five ‘Extreme Heroes’ across 48 certifications to achieve Black Diamond partner status.

Julian Critchlow (Extreme Networks) and Adam Kirkpatrick (Datacom)

ANZ Breakout Partner of the Year FY21 - Qirx

For double digit year-on-year growth with Extreme to reach Diamond Partner status and commitment to upskill engineers

L-R: Nick Winch Qirx,  Matthew Hadfield, Justin Gilmore (Qirx), Julian Critchlow, (Extreme Networks) and Chris Ayshford (Qirx) 

ANZ Deal of the Year FY21 - Compter Systems Australia (CSA)

For its win of the deployment of Extreme cloud managed networking at a new hospital build during the COVID-19 lockdown.

L-R: John Campbell (CSA), Julian Critchlow (Extreme Networks), Clinton Smith (CSA) and Martin Barber (CSA)

50 partners attended the Extreme Networks ANZ Gala Awards Dinner

A talk on Cloud Networking Vision by Extreme Networks chief technology officer Nabil Bukhari.

L-R: Kurt Andrews (Arrow ECS), Justin Gilmore (Qirx) and Carl Flanagan (Radford College).

L-R: Cameron Arnold (Sektor Australia), John Campbell, Clinton Smith, Martin Barber (CSA), Phil Dickman (Intuit Technologies) and Erin Parlane, (Sektor).

L-R: Linden Lumbewe (Syndeticom), Julian Critchlow (Extreme Networks) and Jim Boyle (NetStrategy).

A magician blows the minds of John Campbell and Clinton Smith (CSA).

L-R: Michael Moutsos (Sektor), Luiza Mayell (RuggedIT), Christine Nieto (Arrow ECS) and Mireille Martin (Extreme Networks APAC).

“We are thrilled to recognise the performance of our ANZ partners and be able to reward partners in person at a physical conference with our broader channel,” Critchlow said.