IAMCP U.S. Chapter Names New Top Officers
The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) passed the baton to two new top officers this week.
"Congratulations to the new U.S. president, Jon Sastre, and vice president, Ro Kolakowski. The new leadership team [for] IAMCP US was installed today," wrote outgoing IAMCP U.S. President Rudy Rodriguez in a LinkedIn post Wednesday.
Sastre had served as vice president of the IAMCP during Rodriguez's term. He is president of Conquest Technology Services Corp., a Miami-based company specializing in Microsoft unified communications, Office 365 and managed services.
Kolakowski is a partner at 6th Street Consulting, a Los Angeles area consulting and managed services firm and Microsoft's 2013 Partner of the Year winner for Collaboration and Content.
The IAMCP was formed in 1994 as a peer-to-peer networking organization for best-of-breed Microsoft partners and to give those partners an organized feedback mechanism to communicate partners' needs and concerns to Microsoft in a unified way. The U.S. chapter, one of five country or regional chapters in the worldwide organization, has 36 sub-chapters and 844 members in the United States.
Rodriguez's note also thanked members for more than two years of support at IAMCP and encouraged them to stay tuned. "The new board has an aggressive agenda and will need our support in continuing [to] grow our relationships with Microsoft and helping our partners grow their business," Rodriguez said.
The IAMCP's semi-annual board meeting is scheduled for Feb. 22-23 in Washington, D.C., where Microsoft will also hold its Worldwide Partner Conference in July.
Posted by Scott Bekker on January 30, 2014