That reseller is also up for Distribution Partner of the Year. Other top VAR finalists are Aktion, also a finalist for leading construction partner, and Nextec for manufacturing.  In addition, in the running in manufacturing is SWK Technologies, whose chief marketing officer, Antonio Carrion, is a finalist for the partner marketing award. Crestwood Associates and Kensium are both finalists for the awards for distribution and retail-commerce. The Evertec Group, Chortek and Blaze IT are candidates as the Top Fast Start partner and Accordant, Aqurus Solutions and ASWi for cloud adoption. Other finalists are as follows: Manufacturing, Mayer ERP Group, Algorithm; Construction, Alliance Solutions Group, Bangert Computer Systems; Retail-Commerce, Pabian Partners; and Distribution, Collins Computing. The other finalists for the Partner Marketing award are Nancy Phillippi, senior sales consultant and marketing, Clients First Business Solutions, and Kimberly Tucker, director of marketing, DSD Associates.