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Counselor Award Winners Honored

In addition to the Person of the Year announcement at this year’s Counselor Awards ceremony at Morgan Manufacturing in Chicago, Counselor also named winners of 10 other awards. They are: Ralf Oster from PFConcept as International Person of the Year; Shaun Lichtenberger and Chris Sinclair of Brand Blvd (asi/145124) as Distributor Entrepreneurs of the Year; Jason Lucash and Mike Szymczak of Origaudio (asi/75254) as Supplier Entrepreneurs of the Year; Shamini Peter of Axis Promotions (asi/128263) as the Distributor Woman of Distinction; and Cindy Bergler of Express-A-Button (asi/53408) as the Supplier Woman of Distinction.

Counselor also honored Eric Shonebarger, CIO at Hit Promotional Products (asi/61125), with the inaugural Technology Executive of the Year award, and Paul Lage from Gill Studios (asi/56950) with the 2017 Marvin Spike Lifetime Achievement Award. Family Business of the Year awards were handed out to distributor Midwest Promotional Group (asi/270800) and supplier Charles River Apparel (asi/44620), while Philip Koosed of Bamko (asi/131431) was named the Bess Cohn Memorial Humanitarian Award winner.

Read stories on all of the winners.

 Check out pictures from the event:


Watch an interview with Lage, the winner of this year’s Marvin Spike Lifetime Achievement Award.

Watch an interview Lichtenberger and Sinclair, the Distributor Entrepreneurs of the Year.