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Silicon Valley Elects New Chapter President
Silicon Valley Chapter Continues to Excel Under New President Brian Handley
Brian Handley, ASAP Silicon Valley President
June 1, 2007 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA– The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) announced today that it has
elected Brian Handley as president of its Silicon Valley/Northern California
chapter for a one-year term.
Brian Handley is a Business Development Executive with Emerson Corporation; Liebert Power and Cooling Division. In that role he manages the relationships between Emerson more than sixty of their principal partners, including Dell and Cisco.
In his long career prior to Emerson, Mr. Handley held numerous sales management positions at Compaq, Bell Atlantic and The Fortel Group. In the last ten years, he has held positions as Vice President of Global Alliances at three mid-tier software companies. In those recent postings, he established and managed alliance relationships with IBM, Fujitsu, Siemens, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Cisco and others. In addition, Mr. Handley has managed the development and productivity of channel resellers throughout the US, EMEA, Asia and Latin America.
About ASAP
The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), headquartered in Massachusetts, is the leading global professional association dedicated to alliance formation and practice. ASAP provides a forum to exchange alliance best practices, resources and opportunities as well as offer products that enable members to harness alliances as growth engines to drive corporate performance. ASAP membership includes executives and professionals from Fortune 1000 as well as small and medium sized enterprises throughout the world. The Silicon Valley/Northern California chapter launched during 2002 and quickly became the organization’s largest chapter with more than 300 members and five local sponsors: Ariba, BEA, BMC, Hyperion and Symantec.
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