Channeltivity's board of advisor brain trust brings together the industry's most talented, intelligent and experienced channel and technological professionals. Period.
Amaury Gallisa, Software Channel Advisor
With over 20 years of experience in the software channel, Amaury currently advises public and venture backed technology firms with sales, marketing and distribution strategies and capabilities at Grove Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based investment banking and advisory firm. Amaury previously served as vice president of partner sales at VMWare, where he established an extensive partner network strategy for the company's leading virtualization solutions. Prior to VMWare, Amaury was vice president of sales operations for BEA Systems where he led the company's transition from a direct sales play to a distribution model.
Gary Grimes, Hardware Channel Advisor
Gary Grimes is a channel industry influencer who brings Channeltivity unprecedented insight into hardware sales strategies. Previously, Gary enjoyed an 18-year career at Sun Microsystems, which included his pinnacle role as the company's vice president of partner management and sales operations until his retirement in 2005. During his tenure at Sun, Gary led a company-wide partner initiative to reinforce commitment to the channel and to help its partners better collaborate with field managers. Gary currently serves as the Executive Director at SWOT Management Group, providing channel development techniques to solution providers in the technology field.
Mark J. Melillo, Channel Distribution Advisor
Mark J. Melillo is CEO of Melillo Consulting. Since founding the company in 1988, Mark has led the firm in architecting, integrating and implementing end-to-end technology solutions for companies nationwide. Under his leadership the company has grown from a start-up consultancy to a national technology integrator with more than one hundred employees, offices in nine states and revenues of more than $60 million. Mark's focus on technology leadership has enabled Melillo to receive numerous industry accolades including the Economic Vitality Award presented by then-Governor, Christine Whitman, and numerous occurrences on both the VARBusiness 500 and Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 50. The company has also achieved strong partner status and dozens of awards based on sales achievement, including being recognized by Hewlett-Packard as a PartnerONE Elite Platinum Business Partner and having won several HP Software Crystal Awards for delivering outstanding customer solutions. Mark has also served on a variety of industry panels for CRN/VAR Business, HP and Avnet and currently serves on the HP Enterprise Council and the Avnet Advisory Council.
John Paget, Channel Distribution Advisor
John Paget brings Channeltivity a lifetime of experience in distributor solutions. He recently served as vice president of Avnet, Inc. and global president of Avnet Technology Solutions, a leading distributor of IT solutions in more than 30 countries. John's impressive background in the technology channel industry also includes leadership positions at Synnex Corporation and GE Technology Financial Services.