The channel is a sector with a healthy number of colourful and unforgettable personalities and, of course, egos, so three years ago CRN launched the annual publication, The CRN A-List – a guide to the movers and shakers who help to make the channel such a challenging and exciting place to work.
The CRN A-List is quite simply the best of the best in the UK IT channel. It is a thought-provoking glance into the elite who run, manage and lunch their way around the channel on a daily basis.
The 2007 guide contains an insight into the lives, favourite songs, best corporate jolly, of many of the channel's most influential executives.
The CRN editorial team has spent many hours choosing the right mix of people to be in our third annual A-List – it is a tough decision. To make it for a third year is by no means a certainty and although we have tried to include everyone – this list is never closed for next year.
Congratulations if you make it for the first time – it is a sign that you really have made it. Equal congratulations if this is your second or third time – it is a challenge to stay at the top of your game in the channel.
Please feel free to contact me if you think we have missed out someone who has a massive impact on the channel, or if you think you should make the cut for the A-List 2008.
Sara Yirrell, Editor CRN
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