On February 19, 2009, in Rostov-on-Don, the conference of MERLION Business Channel was held, which gathered together partners of the Southern Federal district, heads of MERLION and major worldwide computer equipment vendors.
Vyacheslav Simonenko, the General Director of MERLION |
Victor Gorodnichy, head of HP department of standard architecture servers |
Dmitry Letichevsky, regional representative of Intel in the Southern Federal District |
Back in 2005, MERLION took resolution on creation of the project oriented at support of loyalty of current partners and development of new business relationships – MERLION Business Channel. For 4 years already MBC forums traditionally gather maximal number of participants in all regions of Russia. During existence of MERLION Business Channel, 60 events were held both on the territory of Russia, and abroad. Permanent participants of meetings were leading world partners of computer equipment, and partners participating on the event, could timely receive information "from first parties".
Irina Kuznetsova, manager for cooperation with Lenovo distributors |
Oleg Erokhin, director of department of information technologies and corporate sales. Samsung |
Artiom Kholodok, manager for cooperation with Seagate key integrators |
The conference was opened by Vyacheslav Simonenko, the General Director of MERLION. In his speech, he carefully reviewed results of the previous year, outlined perspectives and plans for the future.
Then the event was continued by representatives of vendors. Victor Gorodnichy, head of HP department of standard architecture servers, told the persons present about HP servers and data storage systems.
Dmitry Letichevsky, regional representative of Intel in the Southern Federal District, extensively described Intel processors for servers and personal systems.
Irina Kuznetsova, manager for cooperation with Lenovo distributors, outlined perspective of cooperation with Lenovo to partners and announced new products of the company.
Samsung representatives: Oleg Erokhin, director of department of information technologies and corporate sales, and Olga Solodukhina, marketing manager of department of information systems, told the partners about the recent products of the company.
Artiom Kholodok, manager for cooperation with Seagate key integrators, presented new Seagate hard drives to partners.
The official part of MERLION Business Channel was closed with individual meeting. The format of individual meeting which had been proved to be successful at the previous events, remained unchanged: the partners could fruitfully communicate with heads of MERLION, representatives of vendors, and discuss actual cooperation issues. Concerning global financial crisis, MERLION is ready to help its partners, and that is why the conference was mainly focused at individual communication. Key top managers of MERLION were available for communication with partners in Rostov-on-Don.
At the end of the evening, the participants of the forum took part in a holiday party and had a nice time in the pleasant company of their IT business partners.