San Jose, CA, February 21, 2012 - Kerio Technologies announced today that for the fourth consecutive year, Mirek Kren has been named one of CRN's 2012 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT Industry.

In the past year, Kerio launched a SaaS program to provide a new revenue stream for partners by giving them the ability to host the Kerio Connect, a platform agnostic messaging server, and Kerio Workspace, a collaboration and sharing tool, on their servers while offering a monthly subscription pricing model. Under Kren, Kerio also deployed a new partner relationship management tool (PRM) and introduced a rebranded partner portal to improve the way the company communicates with its channel and passes sales leads to appropriate partners.

For the tenth consecutive year, Channel Chiefs were selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue, and public support for the importance of IT Channel Sales.

"It's an honor to be recognized by CRN and it is validation that all the enhancements we continue to make to our Partner program are working," said Kren. "Partner recruitment, more effective communication to our existing reseller network, and additional flexibility though our SaaS program that targets solution providers who have embraced the cloud were our main objectives in the past year. We have also filled out our product portfolio, which allows VARs to choose Kerio to provide everything their clients need for the back office IT infrastructure."

"The 2012 Channel Chiefs list recognizes vendor executives dedicated to driving channel programs in the IT marketplace," said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, UBM Channel. "Our annual Channel Chiefs issue is a must-read for IT solution providers evaluating new vendors or looking to expand solution offerings. These are the people, the products and the programs that any savvy solution provider needs to know. We congratulate this year's Channel Chiefs for their stellar record of business innovation and applaud them for their continued dedication to the partner community."

Selected by CRN's editorial staff, the 2012 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and will be featured online at www.crn.com.
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