No, not THAT JLo.  Meet John Lopez, our Inside Channel Manager responsible for supporting many of AVANT’s top Trusted Advisors!  ​John comes to AVANT with over 16 years of sales and channel management experience. It was a natural fit culturally and professionally.  Read more...

AVANT’s team of qualified and experienced Cloud Sales Engineers got a big boost with the recent hiring of three new members.  Our Cloud Sales Engineering team is one of the key resources that our partners leverage as part of our Channel Sales Enablement program, as an extension of their own team or as objective third-party experts brought in as a skilled asset.  With this explosion of engineers, we welcome Ghazal Baniasad, Sarah Arnstein and Dane Menke to the team!

AVANT’s team of qualified and experienced Cloud Sales Engineers got a big boost with the recent hiring of three new members.  Our Cloud Sales Engineering team is one of the key resources that our partners leverage as part of our Channel Sales Enablement program, as an extension of their own team or as objective third-party experts brought in as a skilled asset.  With this explosion of engineers, we welcome Ghazal Baniasad, Sarah Arnstein and Dane Menke to the team!

We hired Nataly Williams to help us provide a white glove pricing and ordering experience for our partners so they can stay focused on what’s most important to them, driving new opportunities and revenue for cable services.

When you think of AVANT, we hope you think about next-gen solutions like UCaaS, SD-WAN, Security, and IaaS.  Now, we also want you to think “Cable”.  As technology evolves, the ability to deliver enterprise grade service over low-cost public Internet connections, like cable, will only increase.  As the world becomes more reliant on the cloud, having cost effective redundant connections to the Internet will prove to be mandatory for many enterprises.

In the end, all business is local.  What happens in your home turf is what matters most.  Joan’s role is to help accelerate business locally with regional channel sales marketing engagements.  Our channel partners will be able to leverage Joan for their marketing needs as well as executing programs to connect the vast AVANT vendor ecosystem with regional channel sales partners.  

AVANT is increasing our commitment and investment in the channel by dedicating Howard Huerta, a senior executive with a long successful history in the channel sales with AVANT, XO, CenturyLink and Time Warner, as their first VP of Channel Sales Enablement.

CHICAGO—March 27, 2017 AVANT today announced that Shane McNamara, a senior channel sales industry veteran, joined to help lead the company’s critically important channel partner initiatives as executive vice president, Channel Sales, East. McNamara previously served as the senior vice president of business services at Qology Direct. Before that, he was the channel partner vice president at XO Communications and the general manager for Carrier Sales at CDW.

Company expands internationally and grew agent revenue 75 percent year-over-year 

Chicago, Illinois—January 17, 2017 AVANT today announced that Brendan Taylor assumed the role of chief financial officer. Originally from London, England, Brendan joins AVANT from Chicago-based SaaS cloud technology business CVM Solutions, a Kroll Company, where he was responsible for rapidly scaling profits, and delivering predictable and repeatable earnings. Brendon will be a key contributor to help further accelerate AVANT’s growth after a record 2016, where we doubled our active agent base, grew booked Agent revenue 75% and continued international expansion

As the saying goes, you don't know where you're going until you know where you've been. 2016 was a year of tremendous growth here at AVANT. UCaaS, SD-WAN, and Public Cloud were key areas of sales growth, and AVANT cemented sales enablement as the cornerstone of the company’s future. Check out our Top 10 Growth Initiatives of 2016!