Meet Nvidia’s 14 Top Americas Partners Who ‘Deeply Understand’ Its Full-Stack AI Platform
Nvidia Americas Channel Chief Craig Weinstein tells CRN that the 2025 Nvidia Partner Network award recipients—which include multi-year winners like Mark III Systems and World Wide Technology as well as newcomers like Ahead and Advizex—’deeply understand’ the AI computing giant’s full-stack platform of chips, systems and software.
Nvidia has named the 14 recipients of its 2025 Americas Nvidia Partner Network awards, and the winners represent solution providers who “deeply understand” the company’s full-stack AI platform, according to the region’s channel chief.
The AI computing giant announced the Nvidia Partner Network awards Wednesday at its GTC 2025 event in San Jose, Calif., where the company revealed its next-generation Blackwell Ultra AI computing platform along with several other products.
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Standing out among Nvidia’s 500 North American channel partners, the recipients include multi-year winners like Mark III Systems and World Wide Technology—both of which won two awards this year—as well as newcomers like Ahead and Advizex.
In an exclusive interview with CRN, Nvidia Americas Channel Chief Craig Weinstein said it chose the winners based on several criteria: industry and go-to-market alignment, innovation and expertise, customer success, training and certification, marketing and go-to-market activities, partnership with the ecosystem and sales performance.
“I would say almost all of the award winners have one commonality, which is they’re going to market with Nvidia’s full stack, our platform,” he said.
Nvidia’s full-stack platform covers everything from GPUs, other types of components like CPUs and data processing units as well as hardware platforms, many of which it sells with OEMs through the channel, to its growing software portfolio.
“When you think about all of the compute that’s required to bring that to bear, every single award winner deeply understands Nvidia’s platform. They also deeply understand our software,” Weinstein said.
The software knowledge of Nvidia’s top partners covers chip-level and system-level software, as well as the company’s clustering and scale software, according to Weinstein. It also includes Nvidia’s recent acquisition of GPU orchestration software startup Run:AI and its growing collection of CUDA-X libraries for domain-specific software.
These partners are also starting to embrace Nvidia’s agentic AI software.
“Partners are starting to deeply understand that, and so all of them have a commonality that they’re pivoting to understand everything I just described,” Weinstein said.
“And then when they engage with enterprise customers, not every enterprise customer might need everything I just said, but they have the ability to consult and deliver on everything and then helping meet the customer where they are,” he added.
Weinstein said these partners also excel in delivering services around Nvidia’s products, which are “becoming a substantial piece of the value.”
“Services are becoming incrementally more important, not only to our enterprise customers, but to our partners and extremely helpful to Nvidia’s go to market,” he said.
Andy Lin is CTO and vice president of strategy and innovation of Houston-based Mark III Systems, which won Nvidia’s Software Partner of the Year award. He told CRN that his company has sold Nvidia AI Enterprise and Nvidia Omniverse software to over 100 customers as part of larger AI infrastructure deals.
“It takes a lot of effort to be able to get a footprint, especially with something that’s really hard to get somebody off the ground, like Omniverse,” he said.
Lin credited Mark III’s win with the investments the company has been making in its software capabilities since 2016 as well as the cross-functional team it has built, which includes everyone from developers to data scientists who work closely together on solutions.
“A lot of people in our industry like to talk about, ‘We have 100 engineers, and we have 300 data scientists,’ but they’re just random people all over the world that don’t work together. To make this stuff work, you need these people working together every day to just make software work, and that’s the magic behind us,” he said.
C.R. Howdyshell, CEO of Advizex, a Fulcrum IT Partners company, said he was “humbled and honored” by receiving Nvidia’s first-ever Trailblazer award, which recognizes a “visionary partner spearheading AI adoption and setting new industry standards.”
“We made a big first mover bet on AI," he told CRN. "This award reinforces that commitment and also acknowledges just how important AI is to our future and our strategy. This award reinforces our investment and belief that we are moving down the right path. But we are just [at the] beginning. The size and scope of the AI opportunity is unparalleled.”
What follows are the names of the recipients for this year’s 14 Nvidia Partner Network awards for the Americas, which awards they won and why they received the honors.
Additional reporting by Steven Burke.
Accenture
Top Executive: Julie Sweet, CEO and Chair
No. 1 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Accenture won Nvidia’s Global Consulting Partner of the Year award.
The Dublin, Ireland-based global consulting giant received the award for “its impact and depth of engineering with its AI Refinery platform for industries, simulation and robotics, marketing, and sovereignty, which helps organizations enhance innovation and growth with custom-built approaches to AI-driven enterprise reinvention,” according to Nvidia.
Advizex, a Fulcrum IT Partners Company
Top Executive: C.R. Howdyshell, CEO
No. 115 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Advizex, a Fulcrum IT Partners Company, won the inaugural Trailblazer Partner of the Year award.
The Cleveland, Ohio-based company was “recognized for its commitment to driving innovation in AI and high-performance computing, helping industries like healthcare, manufacturing, retail and government seamlessly integrate advanced AI technologies into existing business frameworks,” according to Nvidia.
“This enables organizations to achieve significant operations efficiencies, enhanced decision-making, and accelerated digital transformation,” it added.
Ahead
Top Executive: Dan Adamany, CEO
No. 30 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Ahead was named Rising Star of the Year.
The Chicago, Illinois-based company received the honor in recognition of its “leadership, technical expertise and deployment of Nvidia software, Nvidia DGX systems, Nvidia HGX and networking technologies to advance AI, benefiting customers across healthcare, financial services, life sciences and higher education,” Nvidia said.
Computacenter
Top Executive: Mike Norris, CEO
No. 18 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Computacenter received the Networking Partner of the Year award.
The Hatfield, U.K.-based company was recognized for “advancing high-performance computing and data centers with Nvidia networking technologies,” according to Nvidia.
“The company achieved this by leveraging the Nvidia AI Enterprise software platform, DGX platforms and Nvidia networking to drive innovation and growth throughout industries with efficient, accelerated data centers,” it added.
Exxact
Top Executive: Peter Chen, President
Exxact won the Solution Integration Partner of the Year award.
The Fremont, Calif.-based systems integrator received the award for “its efforts in helping research institutions and businesses leverage generative AI, large language models and high-performance computing,” according to Nvidia.
“The company harnesses Nvidia GPUs and networking technologies to deliver powerful computing platforms that accelerate innovation and tackle complex computational challenges across various industries,” it added.
World Wide Technology
Top Executive: Jim Kavanaugh, CEO and Co-founder
No. 7 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, World Wide Technology won two awards: Enterprise Partner of the Year and Financial Services Partner of the Year.
The St. Louis, Mo.-based solution provider powerhouse won the enterprise award because of its “leadership in advancing AI adoption of customers across industry verticals worldwide,” according to Nvidia.
As for the financial services award, WWT received the honor “for driving the digital transformation of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions,” it added.
“The company harnesses Nvidia AI technologies to optimize data management, enhance cybersecurity, and deliver transformative generative AI solutions, helping financial services clients navigate rapid technological changes and evolving customer expectations,” Nvidia said.
Mark III Systems
Top Executive: Leslie Powell, CEO and Founder
Mark III Systems won two awards: Software Partner of the Year and Higher Education Research Partner of the Year.
The Houston, Texas-based systems integrator received the software award due to “the work of its cross-functional team spanning data scientists, developers, 3D artists, systems engineers, and HPC and AI architects, as well as its close collaborations with enterprises and institutions to deploy Nvidia software, including Nvidia AI Enterprise and Nvidia Omniverse, across industries,” according to Nvidia.
“These efforts have helped many customers build software-powered pipelines and data flywheels with machine learning, generative AI, high-performance computing and digital twins,” the AI computing giant added.
As for the higher education award, Mark III was “recognized for its close engagement with universities, academic institutions and research organizations to cultivate the next generation of leaders across AI, machine learning, generative AI, high-performance computing and digital twins,” according to Nvidia.
Lambda
Top Executive: Stephen Balaban, CEO and Co-founder
Lambda was named Healthcare Partner of the Year.
The San Jose, Calif.-based GPU cloud service provider won the award for “empowering healthcare and biotech organizations with AI training, fine-tuning and inferencing solutions to speed innovation and drive breakthroughs in AI-driven drug discovery,” Nvidia said.
“The company provides AI training, fine-tuning and inferencing solutions at every scale—from individual workstations to comprehensive AI factories—that help healthcare providers seamlessly integrate Nvidia accelerated computing and software into their infrastructure,” the AI computing giant added.
Cambridge Computer
Top Executive: Deena Berton, CEO
No. 233 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Cambridge Computer won the inaugural Innovation Partner of the Year award.
The Waltham, Mass.-based systems integrator received the honor for “supporting customers deploying transformative technologies, including Nvidia Grace Hopper, Blackwell, and the Nvidia Omniverse platform for physical AI,” according to Nvidia.
SoftServe
Top Executive: Harry Propper, CEO
SoftServe received the Service Delivery Partner of the Year award.
The Austin, Texas-based company was recognized “for its impact in driving enterprise adoption of Nvidia AI and Omniverse with custom Nvidia Blueprints that tap into Nvidia NIM microservices and Nvidia NeMo and Riva software,” according to Nvidia.
“SoftServe helps customers create generative AI services for industries spanning manufacturing, retail, financial services, auto, healthcare and life sciences,” it added.
TD Synnex
Top Executive: Patrick Zammit, CEO
TD Synnex won the Distribution Partner of the Year.
The Fremont, Calif.-based distribution giant received the honor for a second consecutive year because of its support for customers in “accelerating AI growth through rapid delivery of Nvidia accelerated computing and software, as part of its Destination AI initiative,” according to Nvidia.
Tata Consultancy Services
Top Executive: K. Krithivasan, CEO and Managing Director
No. 2 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Tata Consultancy Services won the inaugural Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year award.
The Mumbai, India-based global consulting giant won the award in recognition of its “growth and commitment to providing industry-specific solutions that help customers adopt AI faster and at scale,” according to Nvidia.
“Through its recently launched business unit and center of excellence built on Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse, TCS is poised to accelerate adoption of agentic AI and physical AI solutions to speed innovation for customers worldwide,” the AI computing giant added.
Hypertec
Top Executive: Simon Ahdoot, CEO
No. 81 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list, Hypertec received the Canadian Partner of the Year award.
The Montreal, Canada-based company was given the award because of its advancement of high-performance computing and generative AI across Canada,” according to Nvidia.
“The company has employed the full-stack Nvidia platform to accelerate AI for financial services, higher education and research,” it added.
Government Acquisitions
Top Executive: Jay Lambke, President
Government Acquisitions was named Public Sector Partner of the Year.
The Cincinnati, Ohio-based systems integrator was “recognized for its rapid AI deployment and robust customer relationships, helping serve the unique needs of the federal government by adding AI to operations to improve public safety and efficiency,” according to Nvidia.
