Once again, we're looking for the leading vendor executives for our Channel Executive of the Year Award. This is Everything Channel's highest vendor honor, and will be presented at XChange '09 in Washington this summer.

"Nominees... are judged on the influence his or her channel organization has over corporate strategy, demonstrable innovation, major accomplishments, partner satisfaction and visibility within the industry."

Yes, these are the big shots. Eight leaders have already walked off with this prize in past years. That powerful group consists of:

2008: Adrian Jones, HP (large vendors)

2008: Sheila O'Neil, Panasonic (vendors under $1B revenue)

2007: Rauline Ochs, Oracle

2006: Donn Atkins, IBM

2005: Steve Dallman, Intel

2004: Allison Watson, Microsoft

2003: Kevin Gilroy, HP Americas

2002: Allyson Seelinger, Symantec

The free application is available at http://www.crn.com/execform, and the deadline is July 10. Apply now!

Update:Deadline extended until July 17!