Kevin Fortier
Ancero
Telecom Carrier, Professional and Managed Service Provider
Kevin Fortier is the Director of Enterprise Sales at Ancero, LLC. Since joining the company in 2001, he has become a partner and has played an integral role in the development and success of Anceros’ alliance with sales channel partners such as AT&T, Masergy, Qwest and others.
In 2004, Ancero earned an appointment to the AT&T Alliance Channel Leadership Council of which Kevin serves as a member and has chaired various committees. Additionally, in each year since, Ancero has received the prestigious National AT&T Solution Provider Champion Award – a status reserved for Solution Providers achieving the highest level of performance among 400 agents in the AT&T Alliance Channel. Ancero has recently been accepted as a Master Solution Provider in the AT&T program where other sales organizations utilize Ancero's expertise in sales and back office management to support there AT&T sales business. Another recent addition to the services offered; Ancero has been contracted by AT&T as a Network Integration Partner to provide professional services in many areas of IT.
Each year since the formation of its relationship with Masergy in 2005, Ancero has been the recipient of the Masergy’s Gold Partner Award.
Prior to joining Ancero, Kevin spent two years as a sales representative for Sprint in the Philadelphia sales market where he focused on multi-location corporate LAN/WAN projects.
The scope of these projects ranges from providing solutions to small companies (three to ten locations) to large companies with 300+ locations like Yellow Book, a leading US-based publishing company. Kevin is fully responsible for proposing, implementing and managing an MPLS solution for Yellow Book enabling the exchange of information between its corporate office, three corporate fulfillment facilities and three international graphic centers. The solution also provides for the creation of a fully-meshed, redundant network connecting 280 sales locations.
Some of the current projects in which Kevin and Ancero are involved deal with multi-national corporations migrating away from older technologies and looking to benefit from new ones like MPLS. Some of the projects that Kevin is currently working on include a large migration for application hosting of SAP services to a hosted facility with AT&T, a migration to a dual hosting scenario to meet a customers compliance with PCI regulations, network infrastructure project that includes International locations, application hosting and cloud computing, to name a few.
Ancero’s highly successful Managed Services offering is among the industry’s leaders and in January 2008, was recognized by Dell at its national partner convention in Arizona, as the fastest-growing Managed Services Provider in the country.
With sales and marketing offices in Cherry Hill, NJ and an operations center in Berlin, New Jersey, Ancero maintains certified, high-level partnerships with industry leading companies like Cisco, Microsoft, AT&T, Citrix and Dell, to name a few. Additional information on Ancero, LLC can be found at the company's website (www.ancero.com).
Leadership Positions Held Within the Magellan Group: Membership Chair
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