CyberPower's Peter Miesen Recognized on the 2025 CRN Top 100 Executives List in the Channel Disrupter Category
The CRN 2025 Top 100 Executives list honors the achievements of executives across four categories: the 25 Most Influential Executives, Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders, Top 25 Innovators and Top 25 Channel Disrupters. These visionary leaders leverage their distinct strengths to propel the channel forward and shape the industry's direction.
CRN named Miesen among the Top 25 Channel Disrupters. Since joining CyberPower in 2007, he has led the company's channel sales initiatives, enabling its partners as value-added resellers, managed service providers and IT integrators to sell, implement and integrate high-quality power protection products. In his first year with CyberPower, Miesen quickly raised the company's visibility to achieve 'Best New Vendor of the Year' recognition by Ingram Micro.
Miesen's accomplishments include rolling out the company's minimum advertised price policy that ensures excellent margins for partner transactions. He also led the creation of CyberPower's award-winning partner program, the Channel Partner Alliance in 2017.
'Peter Miesen is laser-focused on partner enablement, training and demand generation to not only deliver best-in-class channel partnerships to our customers but to boost our channel transactions and revenue,' said Dick Wedmann, vice president of sales at CyberPower.
'I'm honored to be recognized by CRN as a leader in the IT channel,' said Miesen. 'This acknowledgement is also validation of our team efforts at CyberPower to ensure our partners receive worldclass support by providing them with the right tools and solutions to ensure their efficiencies and profitability while supplying their own customers with reliable, trusted power protection products.'
'Every executive on this list demonstrates exceptional leadership and channel expertise, driving success throughout the partner ecosystem,' said Jennifer Follett, vice president, U.S. Content and executive editor at CRN, The Channel Company. 'These industry trailblazers leverage their unique talents and steadfast commitment to business growth to unlock new opportunities in IT and empower partner success.'
The 2025 Top 100 Executives are featured in the August 2025 issue of CRN Magazine, and available online at www.CRN.com/Top100.
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About Cyber Power Systems (USA), Inc.
CyberPower designs and manufactures uninterruptible power supply systems, power distribution units, surge protectors, remote management hardware, power management software, mobile chargers and connectivity products. The company serves customers in enterprise, corporate, government, education, healthcare and small office/home office environments. CyberPower products are available through authorized distributors and sold by value-added resellers, system integrators, managed service providers, select retailers, and online resellers. For more information, visit https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/.
About The Channel Company
The Channel Company (TCC) is the global leader in channel growth for the world's top technology brands. We accelerate success across strategic channels for tech vendors, solution providers, and end users with premier media brands, integrated marketing and event services, strategic consulting, and exclusive market and audience insights. TCC is a portfolio company of investment funds managed by EagleTree Capital, a New York City-based private equity firm. For more information, visit thechannelcompany.com.
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