In CRN Channel Madness Round 1 voting, Kaseya’s Dan Tomaszewski is trying hold off Nutanix’s Christian Goffi while Cato Networks’ Frank Rauch is a hair’s breadth ahead of WatchGuard’s Michelle Welch.
Round 1 of the 2023 CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs is well underway. We’re more than halfway through the voting and there are a number of close contests shaping up.
After a busy weekend of voting, tournament newcomer Dan Tomaszewski of Kaseya had a slow start but has now edged ahead of Nutanix’s Christian Goffi with 50.5 percent of the vote in the Infrastructure region.
Meanwhile in the Security region, Cato Networks’ Frank Rauch, a finalist in the last two tournaments, is holding a slim lead over WatchGuard’s Michelle Welch with 50.3 percent of the vote.
In the Hardware region, tournament rookie James Robbins of Dynabook Americas has pulled ahead of Lenovo’s Rob Cato with 73 percent of the vote.
And in the Cloud region, VMware’s Ricky Cooper has a solid lead over IBM’s Kate Woolley with 64 percent of the vote.
Here’s a look at the full results so far:
Infrastructure
Dan Tomaszewski, Kaseya, 50.5 percent vs. Christian Goffi, Nutanix, 49.5 percent
Oliver Tuszik, Cisco Systems, 26 percent vs. Shannon Sbar, Schneider Electric, 74 percent
David Weeks, N-able, 24 percent vs. Jenni Flinders, NetApp, 76 percent
Steve Loeb, Eaton, 39 percent vs. Phil Soper, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 61 percent
Hardware
Scott Mann, Scale Computing, 86 percent vs. Rola Dagher, Dell Technologies, 14 percent
Scott Lannum, HP Inc., 54 percent vs. Kimberly King, Hitachi Vantara, 46 percent
Donna Grothjan, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, 66 percent vs. Jason Kimrey, Intel, 34 percent
James Robbins, Dynabook Americas, 73 percent vs. Rob Cato, Lenovo, 27 percent
Cloud
Ruba Borno, Amazon Web Services, 45 percent vs. Kevin Rooney, Veeam Software, 55 percent
Kevin Ichhpurani, Google Cloud, 32 percent vs. Stefanie Chiras, Red Hat, 68 percent
Jonathan McCormick, Intermedia, 33 percent vs. Nina Harding, Microsoft, 67 percent
Kate Woolley, IBM, 36 percent vs. Ricky Cooper, VMware, 64 percent
Security
Michael Rogers, CrowdStrike, 41 percent vs. Bob Skelley, Arctic Wolf, 59 percent
Frank Rauch, Cato Networks, 50.3 percent vs. Michelle Welch, WatchGuard Technologies, 49.7 percent
Lori Cornmesser, Deepwatch, 65 percent vs. Ken Marks, SentinelOne, 35 percent
Tom Evans, Palo Alto Networks, 57 percent vs. Kendra Krause, Sophos, 43 percent
Voting in Round 1 remains open until noon ET on Wednesday, March 22, so there’s still time to head to CRN.com/madness to cast your votes and choose your chief!
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