AHEAD NAMED KONG'S 2026 SOLUTION PARTNER OF THE YEAR FOR THE AMERICAS
Award recognizes AHEAD’s work helping enterprises modernize API and AI connectivity on Kong’s platform
CHICAGO — October 15, 2026 — AHEAD, a global provider of AI-driven cloud, data, infrastructure, and security platforms, today announced that it has been named Solution Partner of the Year, Americas (AMS) at the 2026 Kong Partner Awards. Kong presented the award at its Partner Awards Reception in Los Angeles on September 29, following the Kong Partner Summit.
The Kong Partner Awards recognize partners that demonstrate outstanding collaboration, innovation, and impact across the Kong ecosystem. AHEAD was honored for its work over the past year helping enterprises modernize API management and build secure, governed connectivity for APIs and AI workloads.
Joint engagements between AHEAD and Kong span architecture and API governance, Kong Konnect and Kong Mesh deployments, delivery automation, observability, and the operating practices needed to run platforms at enterprise scale. This work gives clients repeatable patterns for onboarding application teams and managing APIs through their lifecycle.
“Partnerships matter when they change what clients can accomplish, not just the technology they deploy,” said Jamie Nack, SVP, Sales Strategy & Alliances at AHEAD. “With Kong, we stay focused on the client’s priorities and work side by side to carry decisions through to adoption. That’s the kind of partnership this award recognizes.”
The award follows AHEAD’s 2025 Kong Technical Excellence Award and reflects a shared view that enterprise teams need an approach that fits their existing environments, respects established controls and works for the people who operate it.
“AHEAD has consistently shown the technical depth and customer commitment that define our top partners,” said Ken Kim, SVP of Business Development at Kong. “Their work helping joint customers modernize API governance and build AI-ready connectivity reflects exactly the kind of impact we want to recognize with this award. We’re proud to call AHEAD a Solution Partner of the Year.”
About AHEAD
AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on business, engineering solutions that connect strategy to execution. With capabilities spanning AI transformation, AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform acceleration, workload modernization, resilient architecture and operational excellence, the company helps more than 4,500 clients modernize platforms, streamline workflows and apply AI to unlock measurable business value. With a team of more than 3,000 employees, deep engineering expertise, proven frameworks and strategic technology partnerships, AHEAD advises, builds and runs integrated solutions for organizations globally. Learn more at ahead.com.
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