September 12, 2025 – FORGE and its principal partners provide a use case for technology advisory in the enterprise
James Anderson, Senior News Editor, Channel Futures
For the principal partners at Forge Technology Advisors, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The accolades have come in quick succession for Forge, whose principal partners decided to form the business last year. The firm claimed the title of Telarus’ top advisor of 2024, with midmarket and enterprise deals in network and contact center helping their growth. Forge’s business success and client engagement methodology have led Channel Futures to recognize the company and its principal partners – Jacqueline Catala, Michael Brennan and Travis O’Keefe – as its Technology Advisor 101 Rising Star honorees.
Channel Futures’ third annual Technology Advisor 101 (TA 101) awards earlier this year recognized 101 influential and top-performing business leaders whose companies transact in an advisor/agent partner model. Channel Futures for the second consecutive year is recognizing Rising Star and Lifetime Achievement honorees (watch for our Lifetime Achievement awards in the coming weeks). Last year, Guhan Raghu and Doug Cardozo of 3DG Partners earned the Rising Star award. The Rising Star award recognizes fresh thinking and exceptional business performance by TA executives whose company is less than 10 years old. The honorees challenge the notion of doing things the way they’ve always been done and instead offer out-of-the box use cases. We put forward Forge Technology Advisors as a use case for what enterprise-focused TAs of the future might look like.