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Strangeloop Networks’ Virginia Balcom Named as Finalist in 5th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business
Stevie Award Winners to Be Announced in New York on November 14
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run – worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word “crowned,” winners will be announced during a gala event at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York on Friday, November 14. Nominated women executives and entrepreneurs from the U.S. and several other countries are expected to attend.
More than 1,200 entries were submitted for consideration in 50 categories, including Best Executive, Best Entrepreneur, and Best Community Involvement Program. Virginia Balcom is a Finalist in the “Best Canadian Executive category”. Finalists were chosen by business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging. Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs will select Stevie Award winners from among the Finalists during final judging.
Virginia Balcom joined Strangeloop Networks in April 2007 as VP of Marketing and immediately created an exceptional marketing program, and within just a few weeks after the company’s launch, Strangeloop’s AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance won “Best of Tech Ed 2007” in the Web Development and Infrastructure category – an esteemed award within the Microsoft development community. In 2008, Strangeloop launched its new product, the WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, which also won “Best of Tech Ed 2008,” in the Hardware, Networking and Storage category.
Through her marketing expertise and leadership, Virginia has continued to strengthen Strangeloop’s brand through innovative means. Gartner analysts, Joe Skorupa and Mark Fabbi have identified Strangeloop as a strong contender in the Application Delivery Controller market, and have named Strangeloop a Cool Vendor, highlighting Strangeloop’s innovative and unique solution. Other examples of Strangeloop’s success in Virginia’s hands in 2008 include receiving the following awards:
- Recipient of the Red Herring 100 Award: a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.
- Recipient of Redmond Magazine’s 2008 Editors choice award in the “Best Value in Hardware” category.
- Recipient of Rocket Builders “Ready to Rocket 25.” Strangeloop was selected as a company best positioned to capitalize on the 2008 information technology trends.
“Virginia’s marketing expertise is integral to our success and to our leadership status in the ASP.NET application acceleration market,” said Jonathan Bixby, chief executive officer of Strangeloop. “Being nominated as a finalist in The Stevie Awards underscores her drive, innovation and ability to execute her marketing campaigns flawlessly. We are extremely proud to have Virginia on our team.”
“Being named a Finalist in The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an important achievement,” said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards. “It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of recognition. We congratulate all of the Finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition.”
Details about The Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.
About Strangeloop Networks
The Strangeloop Networks products accelerate dynamic web applications with unique, framework-specific solutions that require minimal changes to software coding and hardware infrastructure, freeing developers to focus on providing enterprises with value-added features. With the Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX and the Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, enterprises dramatically shorten code cycles, improve application performance and throughput, more efficiently use bandwidth, achieve greater return on their investment in information technology (IT) staff, network and computing resources and boost customer satisfaction. Strangeloop is based in Vancouver, B.C. For more information, visit www.strangeloopnetworks.com.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
