Alumni of the Year

Our top honor, an annual award recognizing former employees who have achieved massive success.

The 2024 Alumni of the Year is up for closed!

Winner TBD!

The 10th annual memoryBlue Alumni of the Year program is officially underway! With over 1000 impressive alumni flooding the professional high-tech sales universe, taking home the 2024 title will be competitive!

This award program is our signature way of showing appreciation for the impact 1000+ memoryBlue alumni are making in the high-tech industry.

Our alumni are some of the most driven, dedicated, accomplished sales professionals in existence, and we’re incredibly proud of what they continuously achieve. The winner will unveiled during our Q1 “State of the Elephant” Town Hall on April 5, 2024.

The Prize

The winner of our most prestigious alumni honor earns a $5,000 dream vacation on us along with the accolades that come with joining the select group of prior victors.

We will also hang a banner celebrating the achievement in each of our offices — letting every memoryBlue visitor and employee know just how much this accomplishment means. Finally, the 2024 winner will get a conference room named after him/her in one of our offices.

The Judges Panel

Each former Alumni of the Year award winner holds a vote. These accomplished sales pros had what it took to get themselves to the mountaintop, so their input is always crucial every time we determine the next person to join their ranks!

Finally, the Leadership team at memoryBlue votes on the semi-finalists, and we include our regular “People’s Choice” popular vote, which gives everyone a chance to have input.

To prepare you for what will unfold over the next several weeks, here’s a look back at the competition last year.

Stuart Dyer Wins the 2023 Alumni of the Year Award

The 9th annual memoryBlue Alumni of the Year program concluded in April when we announced the official winner:

Stuart Dyer – First Vice President, CBRE

Congratulations to our 2023 Alumni of the Year winner, Stu Dyer! Since leaving memoryBlue in 2011 Stu has had several sensational years, but this year brought him the win and title of Alumni of the Year.

In 2022, Stu and his team at CBRE closed over $2 BILLION dollars in total contract value. Hi team also won, National Team of the Year at CBRE which is given to the highest-grossing team.

As a philanthropist, Stu ran the largest data center internship program in Northern Virginia and placed 8 Northern Virginia Community College students in full times roles with the data center provider community.

We are proud to call Stu our 2023 Alumni of the Year winner and amazed to see all our Alumni making big wins in the sales industry since departing memoryBlue. We can’t wait to see how the competition unfolds next year!

The 2024 Finalists

Nelson Lawson: President, Information SECURED

View Nelson’s LinkedIn

  • Became the exclusive cybersecurity VAR to the world’s largest packaging company. Displacing a nationally recognized VAR who was the incumbent.
  • Inducted into the Institute for Entrepreneurship as the first African-American male among the 75 members only CEO group, in Atlanta, GA.
  • Recipient of the 2023-2024 Impact Magazine 40 under 40 Award and Honorary Luncheon held at the 4 Seasons in Atlanta, GA.

Nelson’s Finalist Packet

Jessie McMahon: Account Manager, AWS

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  • Number 1 seller within the startup segment (50 sellers) for Generative AI incentives and customer use cases for 2024
    140% of my goal for migrations. The migration goal is bringing over any $5K migration over to AWS from another provider.
  • Increased the fast start/onboarding for sellers by 30% by creating a “How to Set Yourself Up for a Successful Year” document and helping create the first AWS sales training methodology for sellers at AWS.

Jessie’s Finalist Packet

Toby Haertl, Global Business Development Manager, CyrusOne

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  • Quota Killer award from CyrusOne (highest quota attainment in the company)
  • Highest quota attainment in company history
  • Named by ExecutiveGov to list of “11 Executives Making Waves In Cloud Computing For 2023”

Toby’s Finalist Packet

 

Background on the Alumni of the Year Award

After 22 years of helping companies surface new revenue opportunities, hundreds of memoryBlue alumni have elevated into roles with some of the industry’s most recognizable names and hottest start-ups.

The memoryBlue Alumni of the Year Award recognizes individuals who have achieved outstanding accomplishments and put together a “career year” so to speak. The winner receives “Hall of Fame” treatment in our offices complete with a $5,000 dream vacation on us and a banner commemorating the achievement.

Get to know the history of the program