Techies of the year

The Finalists for the 2010 BETA Awards have been chosen by the team of Judges at Infotech Niagara.

For the past 10 years infoTech Niagara has honored the best and brightest in Western New York's Information Technology sector through the Buffalo/Niagara Emerging Technology Awards (The BETA's.) 

Thousands of organizations and individuals have been nominated for BETA Awards, representing the very best in tech.

Every year nearly 500 people attend the BETA Awards which feature a trade show followed by dinner.

A special congratulations to the following individuals and companies for a job well done.

Executive of the Year

Deny Adelman - Working Knowledge

Paul Fanara - Aspire Technology Solutions

Gunther Kohn - UB School of Dental Medicine

Fran Murello - Ingram Micro

Herb Stortz - Liazon Benefits Solutions

Techie Award

Mark Cifelli - Chakra Communications

Steven Deitz - RL Computing

Eli Van Eenwyk - Omergex - nominated by Praxair

Scott Hahn - Tri-Delta Resources

Darryl Smith - The PCA Group

Best Success Award

360PSG

Avalon Document Services

Centri Logic

XO Communications

BETA Star Award

360PSG

Advantage Home Telehealth

Digital Information Gathering & Investigative Technologies (DIGITS)

Ecology & Environment

New Buffalo Shirt Factory

Best Online Award

Edunations.org

clevermethod.com

HungerHunt.com

KegWorks.com

Moog.com

Corporate Culture Award

Avalon Document Services

I-Evolve Technology Services

Shatter IT

Studio LLC

Synacor

Excellence in Giving Award

Algonquin Studios

Applied Sciences Group

RL Computing

SofTrek Corp.

Student Award

Alan Katerinsky - University at Buffalo

Ryan McNamee - University at Buffalo

Haricharan Rengamani - University at Buffalo

Harish Shankara - University at Buffalo

Mahesh Venkatramani - University at Buffalo