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ASAP-SV/NorCal Chapter Elects New 2008-2009 President
LiveOps Alliance Executive Jim Chow Brings 15 Years of Business Development, Alliances and High Tech Expertise
San Jose, August 1, 2008 – The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) announced Jim Chow as its new president of its Silicon Valley/Northern California chapter. Chow brings more than 15 years of business development, strategic alliances, and high tech expertise from Silicon Valley companies such as Siebel, Hyperion, Oracle, and Agile Software. He has led strategic partnerships with companies such as Accenture, Citrix, IBM, and salesforce.com and has managed many other key technology partnerships and partner ecosystems. Chow is currently senior director of strategic alliances and channels at LiveOps, Inc.
“I’m proud and excited to take on this role for ASAP’s largest and most active chapter globally. The strategic alliances profession still has enormous unrecognized potential in contributing to the top-line revenue growth of companies,” says Chow. “Many of the biggest companies in the world are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Our community of alliance professionals can impact not only our individual companies but also the greater Silicon Valley, U.S. and global business landscape as a whole by accelerating new relationships, innovation, and revenue growth achievable only through strategic partnering.”
With Chow at the helm, the Silicon Valley/Northern California chapter will focus on helping members drive greater performance from their partnerships as well as advancing the overall Northern California strategic alliance professional community. A variety of programs and initiatives have been planned to drive greater sharing of the latest best practices, thought leadership in new emerging areas, skills development, increased member interaction, and faster relationship formation through web2.0 technologies.
“From the moment he became involved with ASAP-Silicon Valley two years ago, it was evident that Jim possesses strong leadership skills and vision to lead this chapter forward, “ says Norma Watenpaugh, founder and president emeritus of the Silicon Valley chapter. “He’s brought tireless energy, broad business acumen, and past non-profit board experience to ASAP-Silicon Valley. The sky’s the limit for him and ASAP-SV. In addition, he’s an up and coming alliance and channels executive to watch.”
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, founded in 2002, quickly became the organization’s largest and most active chapter with 400 members and an active alliance community of 1200 professionals. BMC, Verisign, and Yahoo are local chapter sponsors along with locally headquartered ASAP global sponsors Cisco, HP, and Symantec.
Website: www.strategic-alliances.org