SLMA Opens Voting for the ‘50 Most Influential (Prominent) People in Sales Lead Mgmt.

6,000 votes expected!

The SLMA has opened the virtual voting booth to determine the 50 most influential people in the field of sales lead management for 2014.   This is the sixth year for the election.

Why its important

Leadership in the critical field of sales lead management

is crucial to corporate and industry success!

This election honors nominees, and those who win, as generators of wealth.  They know how to generate demand and manage sales leads to give their companies or their clients a competitive advantage.  Our goal is to recognize marketing pros for their skills in lead management.  It isn’t enough to create demand; the marketer must be an expert at managing leads that generate measureable revenue.

 The nominees are: 

Ardath Albee - Marketing Interactions

Allison Arden - Crain Publishing

Laurie Beasley - Beasley Direct Marketing

Andrea Becker - LeadMD

Scott Benedetti - The Pedowitz Group

Thomas Benton - Direct Marketing Association

Jane Berzan - DMA

Nancy Bleeke - Sales Pro Insider

Henry Bruce - The Rock Annand Group

David Capezza - SalesRoads

Gil Cargill - CarGill Associates

Adrian Chang - Oracle

Elisa Ciaramentaro - Exceed Sales

Christine Crandell - New Business Strategies

Bruce Culbert - The Pedowitz Group

Debra da Costa - Direct Marketing Partners

Megan Dahlen - Infor

Karen DeWolfe - interlinkONE

Dave Elkington - InsideSales.com

Eric Enge - Stone Temple Consulting

Charissa Franklin - Reality Works Group

Steve Gershik - Swrve

Peter Gracey - QuotaFactory & AG Salesworks

Justin Gray - LeadMD

Larissa Gshwandter - Selling Power

Chris Hardeman - Act-On Software

Nick Hedges - Velocify

Matt Heinz - Heinz Marketing Inc.

Carlos Hidalgo - ANNUITAS

Mick Hollison - InsideSales.com

Jeanne Hopkins - Continuum Managed IT Services

Stephan Hovnanian - Shovi Websites

Susan Hubbart - Ricci Lee Hubbart Associates Inc.

Janelle Johnson - Act-On Software

Russell Kern - KERN - An Omnicom Agency

Nikolaus Kimla - Pipeliner CRM

Victor Kippes - Validar

Jill Konrath - Fresh Sales Strategies

David Kreiger - SalesRoads

Ken Krogue - InsideSales.com

David Kutcher - Confluent Forms LLC

Heather Loisel - SiriusDecisions

Mac McIntosh - Mac McIntosh Inc

Jim Meyer - eTrigue

Kevin Miller - Salesfusion

Ian Moyse - Workbooks

Shawn Naggiar - Act-On Software

Adam Needles - ANNUITAS

Jeff Ogden - Find New Customers

Andy Paul - Zero-Time Selling

Jeff Pedowitz - The Pedowitz Group

Maria Pergolino - Apttus

Kyle Porter - SalesLoft

Debbie Qaqish - The Pedowitz Group

Raghu Raghavan - Act-On Software

Nathan Remmes - NanoLumens

Lori Richardson - Score More Sales LLC

Craig Rosenberg - TOPO

Anneke Seley - Reality Works Group

Howard Sewell - Spear Marketing Group

Tibor Shanto - Renbor

Marcella Shinder - Neilsen

Nathan Teplow - Continuum Managed IT Services

Kevin Thornton - VanillaSoft

Mark Traphagen - Stone Temple Consulting

Jenny Vance - LeadJen

Mari Anne Vanella - The Vanella Group

Robert Wahbe - Highspot Inc.

Anna Weidell - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Bart Young - Young Company

Rules

Only SLMA members may vote for nominees listed on the SLMA site beginning on November 5^th; membership is free.  Voting closes at the end of business on November 30^th.  The results will be published on December 10, 2014.  Voters may cast votes for up to three nominees; duplicates are not allowed.  The Top 50 List will be determined and published based on the number of votes received by each nominee.