Each year, SoftwareCEO/CompTIA forms a select panel of industry experts to evaluate the nominations,
and determine finalists and Software Innovation Award winners. These industry experts, are analysts,
consultants, writers and trade press, and subject-matter experts. Judges must submit an application
which is reviewed for experience and expertise.
If you are interested in being a judge next year, please submit your resume and what categories you would like
to judge to Mark Fogle. Judges are recognized on the SoftwareCEO
Web site and at the Awards ceremony.
The judges use the information given on
the nomination form, including any supplemental materials provided (demos, etc), and apply the Award Criteria to determine finalists. Every nomination is thoroughly reviewed.
Selected review of Web sites and other industry information may be performed during judging. Once judging is completed, finalists are then notified, and a short time later, the winners.
SoftwareCEO encourages the judges to provide comments on the nominations. Our goal is to make the judging process
as transparent as possible. SoftwareCEO will provide nominees with all constructive comments made by the judges.
After the finalists have been announced, nominees may request judge feedback by contacting Mark Fogle
at mfogle@softwareceo.com.
Our esteemed panel of judges for 2009
We want extend a sincere “thank you” to our panel of judges this year. If not for their tireless efforts
in evaluating all the competitors, we wouldn't have a competition.
- Bruce Hadley
A veteran of three startups, Bruce Hadley spent 20+ years in software marketing, sales, and operations. One of
those companies went public, and the other two were sold to much larger software firms. Before founding SoftwareCEO,
he was editor of one of the industry's leading news and research publications.
- Robert Biddle, CompTIA Security Trustmark
Bob has over 20 years of channel sales and marketing experience for software products ranging from Quattro
Pro to VideoDirector to Diskeeper. Bob has worked for a number of software start-ups in a wide range of
marketing, sales, and channel development roles. He joined CompTIA to help build the Security Trustmark
program which establishes business level accreditations on security for solution providers. These initiatives
included interacting with leading software vendors and solution providers.
Until relinquishing the reigns to focus on CompTIA's Security Trustmark program, Bob was also Publisher
of SoftwareCEO.
- Sue Anderson, eVoice
Marketing & Communications
Anderson is a 23+ year software veteran who writes articles and marketing material for the high-tech industry.
She helps ISVs transform their convoluted, tech-focused collateral into benefit-rich sales copy through
eVoice Marketing & Communications.
- Winton Churchill, Churchill
Method, Inc.
Churchill has more that 25+ years experience developing, planning, organizing, and executing sales
and marketing programs targeted in markets with complex sales cycles. He's a best-selling author
of "Email Marketing for Complex Sales Cycles," and has played a key role in a number of successful
growth stage software companies, namely:
- senior sales, marketing, and management roles at Apple, Oracle, Sun, Legato, and
Netfish (now IONA), plus
- VP of sales and marketing for Contact International Corporation, Inc.
- VP of marketing and OEM sales for Spinnaker Corporation (the world's 10th largest
supplier of PC software during his tenure)
- Robert Dubicki
Dubicki is SoftwareCEO moderator and 25-year veteran of the software industry. He's held management and
professional roles in both large and small software companies in marketing, pre-sales, services, development
and consulting. Currently, he is the director of marketing at TP Systems, a software and IT services
provider.
- Colleen Francis
Francis is an experienced, top-notch software sales pro who knows how to make progress in a difficult market.
Whether it's bad economy, government sales or a new market, it makes no difference - she gets the job
done.
- Gordon Graham, ThatWhitePaperGuy.com
In addition to being SoftwareCEO's editor, Graham has published 750+ magazine articles explaining technology
to everyone from accountants to woodworkers. And since 1985, he's won more than a dozen awards from the
Society for Technical Communication (STC).
Unlike most writers, Graham also has first-hand experience as a marketing executive. Graham was VP marketing
for a wireless software/hardware vendor, where he helped build revenues from $250,000 to $14 million in three
years. He did this, in part, by sponsoring a big set of case studies that enabled his firm to "eat the
lunch" of larger competitors.
Details
For details and frequently asked questions on the Software Innovation
Awards:
Finalists and Winners
Here are the finalists and winners from prior years:
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