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CHANNEL PARTNERS — Channel Partners’ Channel Executive of the Year award has been a staple of the Spring Conference and Expo for the past several years and 2013 is no different. Once again, qualified Channel Partners readers – agents, VARs, consultants, brokers, dealers and MSPs – have voted, naming their top picks to contend for the title of Channel Executive of the Year. Nominees must have been the key channel person at a communications vendor (network operator/service provider/manufacturer) in 2012.

Readers showed up in force. Partners were able to vote for up to five channel executives; nearly 600 votes were cast resulting, this year, in a tie that led to 10 finalists and one winner.

Here, for the first time, is the complete list of the honorees, in alphabetical order (not by number of votes received). Scroll through this slide show to see if your favorite channel executives made the list and read their takes on our lighthearted profile questions. (For example, almost every single respondent wished he had the ability to play a musical instrument – who knew?!