Meet Google Cloud’s 11 Top North American And US Partner Award Winners

From 66degrees and Quantiphi to World Wide Technology and Deloitte, here are 11 top Google partners that won Google Cloud’s 2024 Partner of the Year Award in areas like sales, services and expansion.

Although there are thousands of Google Cloud channel partners in North America, only a select few won the cloud company’s prestigious Partner of the Year Award in categories such as sales, services and expansion in 2024.

“Google Cloud’s Partner Awards celebrate the transformative impact and value that partners have delivered for customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, corporate vice president, Global Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud, this week at Google Cloud Next 2024 in Las Vegas.

Each year, the Mountain View, Calif.-based AI and cloud computing giant hands out a few dozen awards for their top partners on a regional and global basis.

One of these award-winning companies was Los Angeles, Calif.-based SADA, an Insight company, which won Google Cloud’s Global Sales Partner of the Year Award.

“We grew up in the evolution of the Google Cloud itself,” Tony Safoian, CEO of the Google Cloud Premier Partner told CRN. “We're very holistic from Workspace to Apigee, to Chronicle to Maps to GCP to infrastructure part of the data stack. We are doing exceptionally well in new gen AI opportunities with Google. Being holistic helps us stand out relative to other partners in the ecosystem.”

Another Google Cloud partner award winner was CloudWerx, which won Google’s North America Breakthrough Partner of The Year award.

“Google's been incredible. So I've been doing this for over 20 years, and Google’s been the best partner that I've worked with,” Jason Geis, CEO and co-founder of Google partner CloudWerx, told CRN. “A lot of that comes from the foundation of the relationship where we went all-in on Google. We live and die with Google.”

Google Cloud’s Ichhpurani said his company is committed to supporting partners at every level of our technology stack, with a partner-led approach to services and delivery, new opportunities for training and differentiation, and optimized routes-to-market to help partners close larger deals faster, and more often.

Here are 11 channel partners—from Accenture and World Wide Technology to 66degrees and Quantiphi—which won Google Cloud’s partner of the year awards for the U.S. and North America for 2024.

North America Expansion Partner Of The Year

Winner: 66degrees

Top Executive: Ben Kessler, CEO

Headquarters: Chicago

66degrees is a leading AI and data consulting and professional services Google Cloud partner specializing in developing AI-focused, data-led solutions leveraging the latest advancements in AI, data and cloud technology. With top notch engineering capabilities and vast industry experience, 66degrees helps customers shape the future of work and become AI-powered enterprises. In 2019, the company won the same Google Cloud Expansion Partner of the Year award for North America.

North America Breakthrough Partner Of The Year

Winner: CloudWerx

Top Executive: Jason Geis, CEO

Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.

Founded in 2020, Google Premier Partner CloudWerx is an engineering-focused Google solutions provider dedicated to solving the toughest challenges via an elite global technology team the company has built in just a few short years. With a commitment to technical expertise and next-level customer service, CloudWerx aims to empower businesses to accelerate within complex Google Cloud environments with velocity and speed. In 2023, CloudWerx was named Sales Partner of the Year - North America.

North America Services Partner Of The Year; and North America Public Sector Partner Of The Year for U.S. Education

Winner: Quantiphi

Top Executive: Asif Hasan

Headquarters: Marlborough, Mass.

Quantiphi is an AI-first digital engineering company that’s been an AI and machine learning innovator for over a decade. Since its inception in 2013, Quantiphi has solved some of the toughest and most complex business problems by combining deep industry experience, disciplined cloud and data-engineering practices, and cutting-edge AI research to achieve quantifiable business results. The 2024 award marks the company’s eleventh Google Cloud partner award since 2017.

North America Sales Partner Of The Year; Global EMEA Services Partner of The Year; and Global Social Impact Partner of The Year

Winner: Deloitte

Top Executive: Joe Ucuzoglu, global CEO

Headquarters: New York City

Deloitte customers includes nearly 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies and over 8,500 U.S. enterprise customers. The Google Cloud Premier Partner leverages its massive sales and engineering workforce to blend business acumen, command of technology, and strategic technology alliances to advise customers across industries on digital transformation. Deloitte is one of the largest professional services companies in the world.

North America Public Sector Partner Of The Year: U.S. National Security

Winner: World Wide Technology

Top Executive: Jim Kavanaugh, CEO

Headquarters: St. Louis

As one of Google Cloud’s most trusted partners, WWT has a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing government organizations and provide solutions and expertise needed to help agencies modernize their IT infrastructure, improve citizen services, and enhance cybersecurity. The $20 billion company with nearly 10,000 employees owns a top-notch Advanced Technology Center to help customers conceptualize, test and validate innovative solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale.

U.S. Sales Partner Of The Year

Winner: e360

Top Executive: Michael Strohl, CEO

Headquarters: Concord, Calif.

e360 is an Google Cloud Premier Partner committed to providing solutions that empower the modern workforce. For more than three decades, e360 has served as a trusted advisor to world-leading healthcare, financial services, entertainment, education, and public sector organizations across the U.S. “Our alignment with Google Cloud is unparalleled. From assessments to transforming and optimizing client infrastructure, our team goes above and beyond to increase growth and adoption of Google Cloud solutions,” said CEO Strohl in a statement.

U.S. Services Partner Of The Year

Winner: Slalom

Top Executive: Brad Jackson, CEO

Headquarters: Seattle

Slalom is a next-generation professional services company backed by over 700 technology partners and nearly 12,000 employees in eight countries and 49 offices. With its human approach, Slalom’s aims to deeply understand its customers to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. This is the seventh Google Cloud partner of the year award that Slalom has earned since 2017.

North America Public Sector Partner Of The Year: U.S. Civilian; and Global Servies Partner of The Year

Winner: Accenture

Top Executive: Julie Sweet, CEO

Headquarters: New York City

Accenture’s subsidiary, Accenture Federal Services, is a leading US federal services company. The organization has over 14,000 employees united in a purpose to advance clients’ mission-critical priorities that make the nation stronger and safer, as well as life better for Americans. Accenture Federal Services empowers the federal government to solve challenges, achieve greater outcomes, and build a digital core that is agile, smart, and secure. Parent company Accenture is one of the largest Google Cloud partners on the planet serving clients in more than 120 countries.

North America Public Sector Partner Of The Year: U.S. State & Local Government

Winner: SHI

Top Executive: Thai Lee, CEO

Headquarters: Somerset, N.J.

SHI is a Google Premier Partner focused on Google Cloud, Workspace, Chrome, Android and Made by Google Hardware. Founded in 1989, SHI is a $12 billion global provider of technology products and services. SHI delivers solutions to enterprises, public sector and academic customers via its 5,000 employees worldwide. SHI is one of the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S.

Global Sales Partner Of The Year

Winner: SADA, an Insight company

Top Executive: Tony Safoian, CEO

Headquarters: Los Angeles, Calif.

SADA, an Insight Company, is a market leader in professional services and a longtime top Google Cloud partner. SADA is a seven-time Google Cloud Partner of the Year award winner with ten Google Cloud specializations. As Google Gen AI's trusted launch partner, SADA prioritizes delivering AI with ROI—guiding organizations from experimentation to full-scale production, empowering them to unlock tangible business value by bridging gaps and harnessing AI's true potential for impactful results.

Global Breakthrough Partner Of The Year

Winner: Cognizant

Top Executive: Ravi Kumar, CEO

Headquarters: Teaneck, N.J.

As one of the world’s leading professional services companies, Cognizant helps clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences. Cognizant is a seven-time Google Cloud Partner award winner with deep expertise in IoT, AI, software and cloud, partnering closely with customers engineering teams. By consulting and collaborating with clients, the company engineers intuitive operating models that are more predictive and responsive.