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Polycom Announces Partner Awards at TEAM Polycom 2012
Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Polycom Announces Partner Awards at TEAM Polycom 2012
Recognizing Excellence in Each Partner Category and for Innovation, Industry Focus, Services, and Integration
 
At TEAM Polycom 2012, global and regional partners honored for meeting the needs of customers worldwide, and further driving the adoption of unified communications and video collaboration
 
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Apr 04, 2012 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), today recognized several of its top performing channel partners from around the world at TEAM Polycom 2012, the company's annual sales and partner conference, held this week in Orlando, Fla. The annual TEAM Polycom Partner Awards showcase partners who exhibited outstanding sales performance in 2011 in each of the major partner categories and, this year, the company is also recognizing partners for excellence in innovation, industry focus, services, and integration.
 
"Polycom's diverse partner ecosystem is a key component in our vision to make video collaboration ubiquitous throughout the world," said Ron Myers, Polycom's senior vice president of global channels. "This year's roster of global and theater award recipients illustrates just a small fraction of Polycom's nearly 7,000 alliance and channel partners worldwide and demonstrates how fortunate we at Polycom are to work with the most innovative and customer-focused partners on six continents. With their help, we're continuing to drive sales for Polycom RealPresence video solutions, and rapidly helping people and businesses everywhere unleash the greatness of human collaboration through face-to-face visual communications."
 
At an awards ceremony in Orlando, Polycom presented global awards to partners whose achievements impact Polycom's business on a worldwide basis, along with theater awards for each of the company's four operating regions and country awards to partners that primarily do business within a single country.
 
In addition to established awards recognizing leaders in each key partner category, Polycom this year introduced a new series of Excellence Awards:
  • Excellence in Innovation honors partners who demonstrated a unique or innovative approach to implementing Polycom solutions.
  • Excellence in Industry recognizes partners that were successful in pursuing business within a major vertical industry, such as education, healthcare, or government.
  • Excellence in Services recognizes partners who excelled in services, customer satisfaction and engagement with Polycom's services and sales teams.
  • Excellence in Integration spotlights partners that successfully integrated Polycom solutions with a UC platform from a strategic alliance partner.
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Douglas Fearing- Co-Founder / President

A graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology, Doug has been in the Technology industry since 1976 and actively oversees Fearing’s daily operations. Along with his wife, Lois, and three others, Doug started Fearing’s in a 600 square-foot facility in Portage, Wisconsin. In the 25 years since, the company has grown to over 30 employees with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug likes to say he’s a “TV Technician with a dream� going back to his history with the family’s original business-Fearing’s TV and Appliance.

Doug values time with family, watersports, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing. In addition to being a devoted member of his church, Doug serves as Board President for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County, Board member of Schools for Haiti and Scripture Chair of the Gideons-Portage camp.

Lois Fearing- Co-Founder/Accounting, Human Resources

A graduate of MATC, Lois oversees Fearing’s daily book keeping along with various HR responsibilities.

Along with Doug, Lois is deeply connected to community outreach, serving as a Board member and Fundraising Committee Chairperson for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County. She also serves on the Schools for Haiti Fundraising committee. In addition, Lois’ ongoing passion and commitment to provide care for the elderly comes from her 10-year history of working in a Reedsburg, Wisconsin Nursing home.

Lois enjoys singing, hiking, sunny days on the pontoon, and spending time with her 4 grandchildren.

Ehren Tresner-VP of Technology and Innovation

Ehren drives Fearing’s technology by continually seeking out trends to enhance capabilities while supporting Sales, Engineering and Installation teams. Throughout his years with Fearing’s, Ehren’s talent and vision have joined forces to create a wide variety of projects and strategic solutions that exceed expectation.

Ehren loves music, family time, movies, nature, sustainability efforts and electric vehicles.

Ben Voeck-Director of Commercial AV

With 10 years with Fearing’s and over twice that long in the industry, Ben continues to lead, coordinate, and develop the Commercial AV team.

By consistently delivering an outstanding experience and outcome, Ben contributes to the Fearing’s legacy of long-lasting partnerships that truly make a difference. Whatever the Commercial AV need may be, Ben and team deliver at the highest level.

Ben is an avid fisherman and photographer. He enjoys coaching his sons and other youth.

Chris Matson-Senior VP of Sales

Chris has been with Fearing’s for 20 years and in the industry for over 2 decades. As a Certified leader in Sales Acceleration and trained in EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems), Chris successfully utilizes his skills to lead the Fearing’s Salesforce. Chris and team are motivated and driven to develop new client partnerships while continuing to reinforce loyal long-term relationships with ongoing Service excellence.

Married for 19 years with 3 children, Chris enjoys skiing, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, camping and golf. He’s also been actively involved as a Youth Football and Softball coach for his family and others.