2010 BETA Award Finalists
Last week’s 10th Annual BETA Awards were a great success.
infoTech Niagara was happy to welcome over 435 attendees to the event who enjoyed an afternoon trade show featuring 50 local IT companies and the awards dinner accompanied by our now famous video skits.
During the trade show we took a break to join Buffalo’s Mayor Byron Brown who toured the trade show and joined us for a rally to support Buffalo’s bid for the Google High Speed ISP project. The Mayor spoke about the impact winning this project would have on the region and the spirit of collaboration which was needed to accomplish the completion of Google’s RFI.
We’d like to congratulate all of our 2010 BETA Award Winners and Finalists! Your hard work deserves recognition!
Pics of the rally can be found here
Pics of the BETA’s will be available soon
Check out the BETA Vids
This year’s BETA Award Winners and Finalists are:
Best Online:
This award goes to a Western New York company that has launched a new or updated online presence in the last year that resulted in increased business & visibility.
The online presence may be a web site, social networking site, blog, Twitter feed or other online communication method. The presence may be for either the company nominated or for a client of the nominated company.
Winner: clevermethod.com
Finalists:
Best Success Story:
This award goes to an established Western New York organization whose investment in technology in the last year resulted in a substantial growth of jobs or revenue.
The organization must have been in business for at least one year and made the technology investment in the last 12 months. The investment may be a purchase of hardware or software, or an investment in research and development.
Winner: XO Communications
Finalists:
BETA Star:
This award is presented to the Western New York firm that brings unique and innovative products or services to the market, showing promise of major economic growth.
Winner: Advantage Home TeleHealth
Finalists:
Corporate Culture:
The Corporate Culture award recognizes the organization that exudes a positive, encouraging, productive, and tech-savvy work environment.
Winner: Shatter IT
Finalists:
Excellence in Giving:
This award is presented to the Western New York organization that has recently demonstrated an overall philanthropic commitment to the local community through product and/or volunteer service.
Winner: Applied Sciences Group
Finalists:
Algonquin Sports – Steven Kiernan
Executive of the Year:
This award goes to the Western New York executive (CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, etc.) who stands out as having achieved or innovated a significant advance or implementation in technology within his / her organization.
Winner: Gunther Kohn – UB Dental School
Finalists:
Deny Adelman – Working Knowledge
Paul Fanara – Aspire Technology Solutions
Fran Murello – Ingram Micro
Herb Stortz – Liazon
Student Award:
This award recognizes a Western New York college or university student who distinguishes his or herself in technology studies, demonstrates solid academics, and possesses good character.
Winner: Alan Katerinsky – University at Buffalo
Finalists:
Ryan McNamee – University at Buffalo
Haricharan Rengamani – University at Buffalo
Harish Shankara – University at Buffalo
Mahesh Venkatramani – University at Buffalo
Techie Award:
This award is goes to the IT professional responsible for making the technology run smoothly at an organization, on a daily basis.
The professional may be an employee or consultant to the organization for which his work his nominated.
Winner: Eli Van Eenwyk – Inergex for his work at Praxair
Finalists:
Mark Cifelli – Chakra Communications
Steven Deitz – RL Computing
Scott Hahn – Tri Delta Resources
Darryl Smith – The PCA Group