OREANDA-NEWS. Kaspersky Lab North America announced today that Jon Whitlock, Vice President, B2B Marketing, was honored with a Silver Stevie Award in the Marketer of the Year category in the 13th Annual American Business Awards, the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.

 This award comes on the heels of recent enhancements made to Kaspersky Lab’s reseller Partner Program, which were designed and implemented by Whitlock and his team. The enhanced program offers not only increased opportunities for profit and growth, but a world-class ecosystem of tools, incentives and support to help partners stand out in today’s competitive security industry. Since its launch in Q1 of this year, recruitment numbers for new partners have jumped between 15-20 percent per month.

“Jon has a unique understanding of the programs and tools partners need to quickly go to market and successfully grow their business,” said Chris Doggett, managing director, Kaspersky Lab North America. “He also has great experience and a strong track record leading direct marketing teams.  The combination results in a powerful ‘one-two punch’ for both our partners and our corporate sales team that is unbeatable. With the enhanced Partner Program and other recent initiatives Jon has developed, there’s never been a better time to partner with Kaspersky Lab.”

As a testament to Whitlock’s expertise in B2B marketing, he was recently promoted to the position of Vice President, B2B Marketing, Kaspersky Lab North America. In his new role, he is now responsible for leading the entire North American B2B marketing team, including driving programs to improve customer engagement and experience with the brand and products, as well as leading channel programs to support partner recruitment, enablement and marketing.

“We are extremely impressed with the quality of the entries we received this year. The competition was intense and every organization that won should be proud,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. “To those outstanding individuals and organizations that received Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards, the judges and I are honored to celebrate your many accomplishments. You are setting a high standard for professionals nationwide.”

More than 200 executives worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

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Kaspersky Lab is one of the world’s fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and the largest that is privately-owned. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users (IDC, 2014). Since 1997 Kaspersky Lab has been an innovator in cybersecurity and provides effective digital security solutions and threat intelligence for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab is an international company, operating in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 400 million users worldwide.