Blaine Raddon serves as The Channel Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Across his 30+ years of leadership experience in the IT channel, Blaine has held numerous executive positions: Vice President of NA Channels and Commercial Sales for Juniper; General Manager of North America for Acronis; Senior Vice President for Clear Center; Sr. Director of Channel Strategy and Partner Enablement for HPE; and 20 years at IBM, where he held several channel management roles, including Director of Distribution Sales. Blaine’s leadership experience also includes eight years of service in the United States Army.

An aspiring rock star turned Ph.D. rocket scientist, Adam Steltzner is praised as a cutting-edge innovator and a leader who literally brings out the very best in his teams. Adam serves has Chief Engineer of the current Mars 2020 Mission & Rover Perseverance that has ultimate objective of determining if life existed on Mars.

A mission ten years in the making, Mars 2020 was plunged into uncertainty at a crucial juncture by the global pandemic. Preparing a mission for Mars and not making any mistakes is immensely difficult under the best conditions. Suddenly, Steltzner and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team of 6,000+ was forced to operate remotely. The collaborative teams pressed on and remarkably maintained all of the original assembly and launch timetables. After a 6-month journey through space, history was made on February 18th when the Rover Perseverance spectacularly landed on the Martian surface, more than 200,000,000 miles from Earth.

Adam Steltzner is the author of The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership and High Stakes Innovation, that was named a “best leadership book of the year” by the Washington Post. CEO READ picked the book as “Editor’s Choice” for its unique strategies and perspectives