Cloudflare Names 2022 Channel Partner Award Winners
Cloudflare has announced the winners of its worldwide 2022 Channel Partner Awards, recognizing partner companies and individuals for their contributions to building technical competencies and delivering integrated security and performance solutions.
The company said the past year marked record growth for both Cloudflare and its partners. The Cloudflare Channel and Alliances Partner Program received a 5-star rating in CRN’s Partner Program Guide, and new customer bookings acquired through partners grew more than 28 percent year over year. In June, Cloudflare launched the Cloudflare One Partner Specialization, offering tailored enablement and go-to-market resources for its SASE platform, which includes a 100 percent cloud-native Zero Trust offering. According to Cloudflare, more than 1,600 partner sellers and technical sellers have completed Zero Trust training courses, and partner-sourced pipeline for Cloudflare One grew 240 percent from Q1 through Q4 of 2022.
Cloudflare stated that partners will take on a more strategic role going forward, delivering managed and professional services such as Zero Trust assessments, legacy product migrations, and integration with existing technology stacks.
Americas Award Winners
Winners in the Americas region included:
- Master Agent of the Year: AVANT – top-performing master agent representing Cloudflare and enabling partners to secure revenue streams.
- Partner of the Year: Optiv – top sales achievement in 2022.
- Growth Partner of the Year: Verinext – invested in the shared business, achieving full certification compliance and exceeding revenue targets.
- Technical Excellence Award: Syntax – Solutions Engineers demonstrated expertise in presales and proof-of-concept work.
- Partner Solutions Engineers Champions of the Year: Niko O’Hara and Stephen Semmelroth (AVANT) – individual SEs with deep Cloudflare knowledge.
APJC Award Winners
Recipients across the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and China region included:
- Distributor of the Year: Softdebut Co., Ltd.
- Partner of the Year: Kingsoft Cloud
- New Partner of the Year: Anchor Systems Pty Ltd
- Partner Win of the Year: Union Victory Technologies Development Limited
- Technical Excellence Award: Omni Intelligent Services
- Certification Champion of the Year: Tokyo Electron Device Ltd
- Partner SE Champion of the Year: Leo Liu and Mia Chen (Shanghai Yunceng Technology Ltd)
- Marketing Partner of the Year: PT. Helios Informatika Nusantara
- Services Partner of the Year: Megazone Cloud Corporation
- Most Valuable Player of the Year by Country or Market: Anchor Systems Pty Ltd (Australia/New Zealand), Softdebut Co., Ltd. (ASEAN), Valuepoint Techsol Private Limited (India), Megazone Cloud Corporation (Korea), Classmethod, Inc. (Japan), Omni Intelligent Services (Taiwan), Shanghai Yunceng Technology Ltd (Greater China), Kingsoft Cloud (Singapore iGaming)
EMEA Award Winners
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa region saw the following honorees:
- Distributor of the Year: V-Valley
- Partner of the Year: Datacentrix PTY LTD
- New Partners of the Year: KAEMI GmbH and Liquid C2
- Rising Star Award: David Sanchez (V-Valley)
- Partner Win of the Year: Rackspace Technology
- Technical Excellence Award: Shawn Gradwell (Datacentrix PTY LTD), Yogesh Padharia (IBM Security Services Netherlands), and Sven Launspach (KAEMI GmbH)
- Partner SE Champion of the Year: Lee Kazaz (Nanosek)
- Certification Champion of the Year: Liquid C2
- Marketing Champion of the Year: V-Valley and Concat AG
- Most Valuable Player of the Year: Nanosek
- MSP of the Year: Castelis
- GSI of the Year: Wipro Limited
More information about the Cloudflare Channel and Alliances Partner Program is available on the partner page. Interested organizations can apply through the Partner Portal.
