Broadvoice announced today that CRN® has named Tessley Smith, vice president of channel at Broadvoice, to its prestigious list of 2019 Channel Chiefs for the second year in a row. The top IT channel leaders included on this list continually strive to drive growth and revenue in their organization through their channel partners.

An industry veteran with two decades of sales management experience, Smith was honored by CRN for his role in the impressive growth of Broadvoice's channel nationwide. The channel and its support teams grew 50% year over year in 2018. Broadvoice also experienced tremendous growth of its major strategic partnerships.

"Smith has worked steadily to expand the company's channel sales strategy and its business customer base," said Sam Ghahremanpour, president of Broadvoice. "His recent focus on putting current partners in a strong position to develop, transition and grow cloud-based business strategies for their customers has been instrumental in the growth of our partner program."