Nutanix’s Christian Alvarez Wins 2021 Channel Madness Crown
Nutanix’s Christian Alvarez was the last channel executive standing, winning the 2021 CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs. By Mark Haranas, Michael Novinson April 08, 2021, 11:46 AM EDT
Nutanix channel chief Christian Alvarez was crowned the winner of the 2021 CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs Thursday in his inaugural attempt.
To earn the crown, Alvarez won out against Check Point Software Technologies channel chief Frank Rauch in the final round, garnering 57 percent of the vote to Rauch’s 43 percent.
The seventh annual Channel Madness tournament kicked off on March 18. Thirty-two of the industry’s top channel chiefs vied for votes from CRN readers across five rounds of the single-elimination tournament, ending with Alvarez being crowned the winner.
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Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced Teresa Covington as its new chief financial officer. Covington will join Lightning’s senior leadership team and lead the company’s finance and investor relations teams as it transitions to being a public company as a result of its announced business combination with GigCapital3, Inc. (“GigCapital3”) (NYSE: GIK).
Teresa Covington, CFO of Lightning eMotors. (Photo: Business Wire)
Most recently, Covington served as chief financial officer for asTech, a leading cloud-based automotive technology and diagnostic services provider. Prior to joining asTech, Covington was the head of the global finance organization at AeroVironment, a publicly traded technology company in aerospace and defense that designs, manufactures and distributes unmanned aerial vehicles. The
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Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced a $45 million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. The first zero-emission motorcoach was delivered in December.
The T2145e electric motor coach undergoing final testing in Colorado. (Photo: Business Wire)
The order includes a mix of new vehicles manufactured by Lightning eMotors, as well as new zero-emission powertrain systems developed by Lightning eMotors to be upfit by ABC Companies into customers’ previously operated vehicles.
Under the order and partnership, Lightning eMotors has trained ABC Companies personnel to install and service Lightning Electric powertrain systems. In addition to Class 8 motorcoaches, the order from ABC Companies includes Class 3 Lightning Electric Transi