AHEAD NAMED NVIDIA 2025 RISING STAR PARTNER OF THE YEAR
CHICAGO, March 19, 2025 – AHEAD, a leading provider of AI solutions, announced it has been selected by NVIDIA for the 2025 Americas NPN Rising Star Partner of the Year Award.
The award recognizes AHEAD’s technical expertise in implementing NVIDIA AI solutions across enterprise environments.
AHEAD accelerates enterprise AI adoption and value creation by bridging the gap between infrastructure capabilities and data engineering, supporting customers with the most critical requirements and use cases.
Its infrastructure teams design, install and support custom NVIDIA accelerated solutions across public clouds, data centers and edge. AHEAD’s AI Operating Model encompasses use case development, planning, data readiness, value extraction, data and infrastructure engineering, model selection and optimization along with managed services across the entire technology stack.
This integrated approach, underscored by deep experience with application integration, automation and security, creates an AI-powered ecosystem that helps businesses quickly develop and implement AI strategies.
The NVIDIA NPN Program provides partners with the expertise required to develop, deploy and maintain world-class accelerated computing solutions designed for today’s most demanding machine learning and AI workloads.
“Recognition as an NVIDIA Rising Star validates AHEAD’s commitment to accelerating business value with AI,” said Tom Koppelman, vice president of Sales Strategy and Alliances at AHEAD. “Being part of the NVIDIA Partner Network has been instrumental in this journey, providing comprehensive training, certification pathways and collaboration with NVIDIA engineering expertise to better serve clients.”
“AI is transforming how businesses operate, enabling them to drive innovation and evolution across industries,” said Craig Weinstein, vice president of the Americas Partner Organization at NVIDIA. “AHEAD is recognized as the NPN Americas Rising Star Partner of the Year for its leadership in enterprise AI adoption with its AI Operating Model, installing and supporting NVIDIA accelerated solutions from public clouds to on-premise enterprise data centers.”
The Rising Star award follows AHEAD’s recent announcement of a new rack-scale integration facility, designed to meet the increasing demands of AI and high-performance computing workloads.
Visit ahead.com/partner/nvidia/ for more information on AHEAD’s partnership with NVIDIA.
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