ABOUT

With over a decade of successful sales and sales leadership, Bana Qashu Young (BQY) founded BQY Consulting to enhance the customer experience by utilizing her expertise in sourcing the best technology solution.

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Bana is a leader in channel sales enablement, managing the channel sales team, directing channel sales policies, objectives, and initiatives in the East and Eastern Canada. In her role, Bana actively works with both suppliers and channel sales professionals to enable them to excel in next generation IT sales across cloud, colocation and communication services, including: UCaaS, IaaS, SD-WAN, DRaaS, BaaS, DaaS, etc.  At AVANT Bana grew the east region in record time, outpacing the business in revenues year over year by enabling the channel to embrace new technologies while pulling through legacy technologies. She is strategic in building and growing a team, a cadence and a repeatable sales process.

 

Bana is a former member of Chief and has been recognized by CRN as an influential women of the channel in 2022, 2020, 2019 & 2018, Informa as top 20 leaders in the Distribution space in 2023, and received the 2018 Alliance of Channel Women ACT award.  Bana has over a decade of channel sales experience across multiple technology and service provider companies, including Mitel and Birch Communications before joining AVANT.  

 

Bana brings a different energy and skill set to the channel sales community as well as a strategic way of selling to both partners and end users that is focused on their overall business. Her philosophy balances personal development with career, family and community. Bana is a registered yoga teacher (eRYT200 and RYT500) with the Yoga Alliance and a Certified Ayurveda Lifestyle Coach.