he Acelera Group Team is comprised of senior business people with an average of twenty to thirty years of business management experience.

Lee Levitt - Managing Director
Lee works with the senior management of technology companies to bridge the gap between the company’s technical capabilities and customer pain. In a variety of roles ranging from industry analyst, senior marketing, business development, partner management, and consultant, he has focused on matching specific customer business problems with technology solutions.

He has introduced important new technologies to the market, including the first web server software for the Windows environment and a leading commercial Internet messaging server. He has conducted groundbreaking research on the role of service providers in the IT marketplace and has extended the reach and market position of a variety of companies through the hands-on development of partner and channel programs.

Lee has spoken and written extensively on marketing and channel management issues. He has spoken repeatedly at COMDEX, Annual Meetings of the Internet Society, Internet Commerce Expo, ComputerLand’s National Sales Conference and at numerous vendors’ partner conferences. He wrote a weekly column on channel management issues for Computer Reseller News and has been published in ComputerWorld, Reseller Management and a variety of other industry trade publications.

Over the past 5 years he has been consulting with technology companies on their overall positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategies, and partnering programs. Lee is also a contributing analyst for International Data Corporation. Lee holds a B.A. in economics from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. (full bio)

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Deborah Merkin
Working with early stage, fast growing and more established organizations, Deborah has helped to increase their revenue by successfully expanding sales and distribution channel programs. She offers a unique combination of traditional marketing, partner management and channel creation expertise.

Her background includes line management roles at well-known companies including Staples, AT&T Capital, Techtarget.com, Cortex (an application development tool company), Access Technologies and Digital Equipment.  (full bio)

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Laurie Webster-Saft
Laurie Webster-Saft brings to the team an IT business perspective with an analytical background. Throughout Laurie’s career she has focused on key technology drivers to help companies more profitably achieve their goals. Laurie spent five years as a market research analyst working with large data sets, completing complex statistics analysis, and creating models for decision making.

Laurie holds an MBA from the University of Albany, State University of New York. She also received a B.A. of psychology and sociology from Hartwick College, and has completed significant course work in computer science. (full bio)

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