Karen Lomas

AWS Public Sector Lead (ssa) - Partner Development Manager at First Distribution

Karen Lomas currently serves as the AWS Public Sector Lead (SSA) - Partner Development Manager at First Distribution since August 2020, where responsibilities include managing vendor relationships with the AWS PS team and successfully onboarding new AWS Partners. Prior to this role, Karen held positions such as Brand Manager for Supermicro & Quest/One Identity, AMD Commercial Channel Manager for South Africa, Lenovo Business Development Manager at Pinnacle, Key Account Manager at Asus South Africa, and Lenovo Product Manager at Rectron South Africa. Throughout these roles, expertise has been demonstrated in vendor relationship management, sales pipeline tracking, marketing strategy development, and providing product training to partners while consistently driving revenue growth and managing various product lines.

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First Distribution

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First Distribution is a value added distributor of leading global brands, providing complex ICT solutions to the Enterprise and SME markets, focused around the Data Centre, Virtualisation, Hosted Applications and Cloud Based Services, Database and Middleware, Security and Network Infrastructure, backed up by unparalled expertise. As South Africa's leading distributor for datacentre, enterprise and cloud solutions, First Distribution's model is based on delivering solutions through an established reseller base. This has been built up through a history of consistent trustworthy service and nurturing resellers as business partners. First Distribution's unwavering commitment to their business partners, whose success they view as their own, ensures a keen understanding of their reseller needs, enabling First Distribution to bring maximum value to their endeavours. First Distribution prides itself on its ability to service market leading brands in the enterprise IT Market and has been mandated by some of the largest and most successful IT companies in the world to distribute their products and services. These include IBM, Oracle, EMC, Microsoft, AWS, Lenovo, Samsung, Veeam, Hitachi Data Systems, Avaya and many more.


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