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Strangeloop Networks’ Virginia Balcom Named Finalist in 4th Annual Stevie® Awards For Women in Business
Stevie Award Winners to Be Announced in Las Vegas on November 12
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 business world’s own Oscars.” (New York Post, April 27, 2005).
More than 800 entries were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Best Executive, Best Entrepreneur, and Best Community Involvement Program. Winners will be announced during an event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Monday, November 12. Nominated women executives and entrepreneurs from the U.S. and several other countries are expected to attend.
Virginia Balcom joined Strangeloop Networks in April 2007 as VP of Marketing and within months created a stellar marketing program to launch the company at a preeminent educational event for the Microsoft development community. Strangeloop won “Best of Show” at that event. The company’s successful launch to the Microsoft .NET community played an important role in securing CDN$11.5 million in financing, one of the largest rounds of private investment in a technology company in Canadian history.
“Virginia is a tremendous asset to the Strangeloop team and we’re thrilled that her achievements and talent are being recognized in this way,” said Jonathan Bixby, president and CEO of Strangeloop Networks. “As head of marketing, Virginia clearly differentiates Strangeloop’s value proposition and is helping to drive the company to market leadership. She is a true marketing superstar and an integral part of Strangeloop’s success.”
Finalists were chosen by business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging.
Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs select Stevie Award winners from among the Finalists during final judging.
“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
Strangeloop Networks accelerates dynamic Web applications with unique, framework‐specific solutions that require no changes to software coding or hardware infrastructure and that frees developers to focus on providing enterprises with value‐added features. With the Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, 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 and network 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 Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards. Honoring companies 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.
Infiniti is the presenting sponsor of The 2007 Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Supporting sponsor is JetBlue. Media sponsor is Pink magazine. The Business TalkRadio Network will broadcast the ceremonies live nationwide.
About Infiniti
Infiniti offers a full-line of luxury performance automobiles, including the G Coupe and Sedan, the M luxury performance sedan, FX premium crossover SUV, the QX full-size luxury SUV, and the upcoming EX luxury crossover inspired by coupe design. More information about Infiniti and its Total Ownership Experience can be found at www.Infiniti.com.
