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CRN Sales & Marketing Awards. June 2025
Second year judging the awards and what a privilege. Some amazing campaigns by sales and marketing teams across the IT industry.

IFA Feature for this year's Expo. July 2024

Open & Informed Working with eebz. June 2024
Carl West is working with eebz for the UK market.
Eebz Retailer Relationship Management (RRM) is the digital shelf analytics solution for retail sales teams. An invaluable set of tools and data, that provides vital insights to help you supercharge your retail sales.

Open & Informed Working with OPIA. June 2024
Carl West is appointed Stategic Advisor for OPIA for the UK market.
OPIA provides a smart alternative to costly price discounts, their innovative sales promotions deliver greater volume at a lower cost, while their lifecycle solutions harness the potential from your customer relationships to generate lifetime value.

First Workshop. May 2024
Workshop was held at the Channel Summit with Vendors, Retailers and Vendors. Content was geared to helping businesses get Insight ready.

Invite to be a Judge. March 2024
Carl West starts his first year as a judge for the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards.

OPEN & iNFORMED starts work with TechSol. Jan 2025
Techsol offer tailored software solutions and consultancy services to companies who operate technology in their business.

CRN Channel Awards. November 2024
With 2 stages to the judging and the presentation of the top distributors in the UK, the awards are judged with quality and passion.

Open & Informed Go Public. May 2024
First public event after inception of the business. Monte Carlo.

10th Year as a Judge. April 2024
Carl West invited back as a judge for the CRN Channel Awards. This will be the 10th year. Carl heads up the Distributor judging panel.

The company launches. March 2024
Open and Informed Ltd was created to help prepare businesses that make their essential first step into analysing their market space.

OPEN & iNFORMED returns to Channel Summit. March 2025
Following the success of the keynote in 2024, Carl West has been asked to return for the newly dated Channel Summit in 2025.

CRN Sales & Marketing Awards. June 2024
First year judging the awards and what a privilege. Some amazing campaigns by sales and marketing teams across the IT industry.

Channel Summit Monte Carlo. May 2024
In preparation for this year's Channel Summit, Carl was interviewed about his workshop.

Open & Informed Working with ECDB. April 2024
Carl West is appointed Stategic Advisor for ECDB for the UK market. ECDB report on online consumer sales globally, through their SaaS platform.
"We at ECDB are very proud to announce that from now on we will be working together with Carl West as a strategic advisor. With the help of his enormous experience and expertise, we have the opportunity to further develop ourselves, especially in the UK market, to get to know the nuances of the market and to network with many exciting contacts." ECDB

More Good News To Come
Open & Informed has already announced it's work with ECDB, but there are more clients to announce subject to contracts.

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