ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards
Winners announced April 28 at Summit NYC
The ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards represent the pinnacle of achievement in the alliance management community.
The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) announced the winners of the 2025 ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards at the 2026 ASAP Summit NYC. This year's winners are the Covenant for Public Libraries, Isomorphic Labs and Novartis, MSD Turkiye and Bilim Pharmaceuticals, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Each was recognized for demonstrating effective alliance management practices across four award categories.
The ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards are the only awards dedicated specifically to advancing the practice of strategic alliances. Winners are selected for demonstrated use of alliance management best practices and the outcomes those practices support.
2025 Winners
Corporate Social Responsibility Category
Covenant for Public Libraries | KB National Library
Emerging Alliance Category
Isomorphic Labs & Novartis
Enduring Alliance Category
MSD Turkiye & Bilim Pharmaceuticals
Innovative Collaboration Category
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
2025 Finalists
Corporate Social Responsibility Category
The Clean Water Partnership | Corvias Infrastructure Solutions and Prince George’s County Maryland
Covenant for Public Libraries | Vereniging van Openbare Bibliotheken (VOB), Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) National Library of the Netherlands, Samenwerkende Provinciale Ondersteuningsinstellingen Nederland (SPN), Interprovinciaal Overleg (IPO), and Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG)
Emerging Alliance Category
C-Further | LifeArc, Cancer Research Horizons, and Great Ormond Street Charity
Novartis–Isomorphic Labs Alliance | Isomorphic Labs & Novartis
TenneT Valuechain Orchestration | TenneT, Heroes Corp., PLTFRM, Digital Ecosystem Institute (DEI), DataGrow, Puurdata
Enduring Alliance Category
BeOne–Luye License Agreement | BeOne Medicines & Shandong Luye Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
MSD–Bilim Pharmaceuticals | MSD Turkiye and Bilim Pharmaceuticals
Protiviti & OneTrust | Protiviti & OneTrust
Innovative Collaboration Category
Asset Close-Out and Transition Team (ACTT) | Amgen
Partner Financial Health Assessment Process: A Strategic Finance-Alliance Collaboration Model | Jazz Pharmaceuticals
IPCEI Hy2Tech – Wave 2 the Future | Fincantieri
Award Categories
Organization Categories
Corporate Social Responsibility
Honors alliances that apply exemplary management practices to advance significant societal goals. This recognition celebrates collaborations that effectively adapt alliance methodologies to address sustainability, health, or other social challenges, demonstrating measurable impact through purposeful partnership strategies. (i.e., sustainability, health, poverty, environment, etc.)
Emerging Alliance
Celebrates promising alliances that demonstrate exceptional implementation of best practices during the critical foundation phases. This recognition honors collaborations that have effectively adapted alliance methodologies during strategy development, partner selection, negotiation, design, and launch—creating early value and establishing a strong foundation for continued success.
Enduring Alliance
Recognizes mature alliances that demonstrate sustained excellence through consistent application of best practices over time. This award honors partnerships that have successfully navigated transitions, achieved or exceeded defined goals, and clearly demonstrate the critical role of alliance management in driving measurable success throughout the collaboration's life cycle.
Innovative Collaboration
Recognizes groundbreaking approaches to alliance management that advance industry practices. This award honors innovations in tools, processes, governance, or strategies that deliver measurable benefits and offer valuable insights for the broader alliance management community. (i.e., metrics, training, conflict resolution, communication approaches).
Individual Categories
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Emerging Leader
Recognizes exceptional alliance and partnering professionals with 0-5 years of experience who are either actively pursuing their CA-AM certification or have already earned it, or have actively engaged in the alliance management community. This award honors individuals who exceed performance expectations, effectively implement best practices, successfully manage stakeholders, and actively enhance the visibility and value of alliance management within their organizations.
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Champion
Honors CA-AM certified professionals who demonstrate exceptional leadership in managing teams and navigating complex alliances and ecosystems. This award recognizes alliance champions who consistently apply advanced management practices, drive meaningful outcomes across multiple partnerships, and elevate the strategic importance of alliance management within their organizations.
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Executive Leadership
Recognizes CSAP certified executives who demonstrate exceptional strategic leadership in overseeing alliance and partnership portfolios at the highest organizational levels. This award honors C-suite leaders, or those reporting directly to the C-suite, who drive enterprise-wide alliance strategy, champion partnership innovation, and leverage alliance portfolios to achieve significant business impact and competitive advantage.
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Outstanding Service & Achievement
Celebrates extraordinary dedication to advancing both ASAP and the broader alliance management profession. This award honors members who consistently demonstrate exceptional service, leadership, and commitment—going above and beyond to strengthen the alliance community, contribute valuable knowledge, mentor professionals, and elevate standards of excellence across the alliance management discipline. Nominations are not accepted for this award.
Historical Award Categories
- Alliance Program Excellence - Recognized organizations that instilled the capability to consistently implement and manage alliance portfolios and demonstrated consistent success of those alliances over time. Award recipients have programs built on an integrated suite of processes, tools, professional development and/or certifications.
- Best Ecosystem Solution - Recognizes innovative collaborations of four or more partners delivering unique solutions. In ecosystems, management differs from bilateral alliances, strategies for handling multi-partner dynamics are needed, and often justification of the need for an ecosystem approach is required. Winners in this category exemplify partnerships that leverage diverse strengths to create exceptional value in today's interconnected business landscape.
- Growth Company Alliance Management Excellence
- Individual Alliance Excellence - Recognizes excellence in managing a single alliance (between two or more organizations) in any phase of the alliance life cycle, including but not limited to planning, partnering, building the governance for, implementing, executing, exiting, or transforming the alliance. Awards are given in the following subcategories.
- Small- and Mid-Sized Company Alliance - Recognized high-impact alliances between companies with less than $500 million in revenues.
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