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By Heather Clancy CRN
3:00 PM EST Fri. Feb. 24, 2006
From the February 27, 2006 CRN

JERRY LUMPKIN, Toshiba Digital Products Division
Jerry Lumpkin has a simple aspiration: to see his division match and surpass sales growth rates for the notebook market in aggregate. More important, Lumpkin is hoping for significant growth from Toshiba's strategic channel partners.

Since joining the Toshiba Digital Products Division last fall as vice president of business channel sales, Lumpkin has hit the road to meet with more than 60 different resellers face to face, some of whom he met during his previous roles at Ingram Micro and Synnex.

“We need to get the message out that we're re-embracing the channel,” he said.

Lumpkin already has moved quickly on his end to provide solution providers with specific reasons to trust his commitment to the value-added side of the vendor's partner strategy. In early December, the Irvine, Calif.-based company unveiled the EasyBuy initiative, under which it is offering certain limited configurations at set prices for the channel, and last month, Lumpkin said he's working on boosting compensation for certified service providers although a final decision hadn't been made when we spoke.

Bob Venero, president and CEO of Future Tech Enterprise, a Holbrook, N.Y.-based solution provider with a substantial mobility practice, said he wanted very little to do with Toshiba until last year. But Lumpkin has been open to his ideas and has acted on more than one, he said.

“In the past, from a Toshiba perspective, we did not have a good relationship with them at all,” Venero said. “Until I met and started working with Jerry, Toshiba was done in this building.”

Today, not only are Toshiba notebooks a fixture in Future Tech's prominent emerging technology demonstration center, but they are updated proactively every time there's a change to the line.

“It's a different world,” Venero said.