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Video: AHEAD President On Consolidation In The Channel

Rich Falcone was appointed as president of AHEAD after it acquired CDI at the start of 2024.

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Katie Bavoso
Jun 12, 2024
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In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso chats with Rich Falcone, the president of solution provider AHEAD. Falcone spent more than 20 years at CDI, most recently as president and CEO, before it was acquired by AHEAD in February 2024. He explains why the channel should expect to see more mergers and acquisitions among solution providers in 2024 and when it actually makes sense for a move like that to happen. Falcone digs into how existing AHEAD and CDI customers will benefit from the recent consolidation, and perhaps more importantly, why he believes the culture that made him feel at home at CDI for two decades will continue under a new name.

On the technology side of the conversation, Falcone details why IT has become more complex even though it’s designed to make work more efficient. This is what influences his approach to solving various and evolving customer needs as a leader.

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Katie Bavoso is a 2017 Regional New England Emmy-nominated broadcaster with over a decade of professional content creation, production, hosting, and interviewing experience. Starting her career off in TV news, she pivoted to the IT channel to help connect vendors, solutions and services providers, and IT buyers through exciting video content and storytelling. Katie is now the host of Channel Insider: Partner POV, a video and podcast series shining a light on the most innovative solution providers of the IT channel.

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