The 2020 Rising Female Stars Of The IT Channel

CRN celebrates the tireless efforts and endless dedication of the 100 women on our inaugural Rising Female Stars list. These individuals are front and center in making the channel the force it is today.

Their to-do lists may vary, but all of the women on our 2020 Rising Female Stars list have one goal in mind: improving business for their company’s solution provider partners.

Our inaugural list celebrates those who actually ‘reach for the stars’ every day when it comes to their solution provider partners. Their creative approaches and ability to collaborate have taken their companies and the overall channel to new heights.

These 100 women have garnered kudos from top executives, co-workers and partners for their laser focus, tireless work ethic and dedication to putting solution providers on the road to success. Our rising stars are not behind the scenes—they are front and center across the industry. Congratulations to these 100 women and the many more who make the channel the force it is today.

By Company:

A-E | F-K | L-O | P-S | T-Z

Kaela Loffler

VP, Marketing

Accedian

Loffller joined Accedian in 2018 and completely revamped the marketing team. She has been instrumental in supporting the performance analytics vendor’s global channel effort, from managing the MDF process to organizing joint channel events and communications.

Jennifer Bilby

Channel Account Manager

Acer America

Likened to an athlete who never takes a day off, Bilby is “always on,” from helping customers navigate Acer to participating with them in the field at events. She also helps marketing and sales better understand the channel partners they support.

Sanda Milovic

Partner Success Manager

Acronis

In her first year at Acronis, Milovic has earned a reputation as a high-impact team member who is responsive, diligent and always willing to take on new responsibilities. She has spent time visiting with solution providers at various partner events to evangelize the Acronis story.

Ligeia Zeruto

Worldwide Public Sector Global Alliance Manager

Amazon Web Services

Zeruto has provided strategic guidance to partner leaders to help achieve AWS’ goals and also dove deep into performing what is necessary tactically. She is known for doing so with confidence, grace and passion, inspiring those around her to do the same.

Chelsie Ritarossi

Sr. Manager, Channel Marketing

APC by Schneider Electric

Ritarossi is moving up within APC’s channel organization, having been promoted to her current role this past fall. She has received kudos for continuing to achieve high performance in her everyday tasks while taking on enormous new responsibilities.

Allie Jo Voigt

Channel Account Manager, MSP

Arctic Wolf

Voigt has earned the title of “rock star” at Arctic Wolf, where she turned heads by taking charge of the company’s MSP events, becoming a familiar face to attendees and improving enablement for partners to make them more successful.

Linda Peterson

National Sales Manager

Arrow Electronics

Peterson is described as a creative and passionate field sales team leader responsible for Arrow’s largest and most strategic partners. She has focused on communication and planning to facilitate growth, as well as metrics to keep things on track.

Donna Lowe

Channel Director, Western Region

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

Lowe delivers top-notch results for partners, exemplifying the Aruba culture of “customer first/ customer last.” She is lauded as a leader who brings tremendous value to her team and channel community.

Michele Stone

Sales Director

AT&T

Stone joined AT&T in the second half of last year and quickly established strong relationships with solution provider partners as well as internal sales teams. She is known for her ability to achieve sales revenue and production goals while cultivating healthy team dynamics.

Kooper Macleay

Sr. Marketing Manager

AttackIQ

Macleay wins praise for accelerating her understanding of the channel as well as the key components required for developing a successful channel event. She is described as very detail-oriented and is credited with upscaling AttackIQ’s promotional efforts with each partner globally.

Jenifer Bond

VP, U.S. State, Local, Education

Avaya

Bond is known for leading by example and creating an inclusive, rewarding environment that encourages transparency and trust. She empowers Avaya teams to collaborate, plan and show a cohesive front to clients.

Corey Banner

Director, Partner Success

Axcient

In support of her efforts to drive partner retention and growth, Banner has championed a partner engagement model that includes strategic business reviews and check-ins to keep the lines of communication open. She also built campaigns to help partners expand their portfolios.

Andrada Georgescu

Worldwide Partner Program Development Manager

Bitdefender

Georgescu ensures that Bitdefender’s partner programs serve partners’ needs and follow the company’s goto-market strategy. These programs allow all partners to receive the promised benefits from Bitdefender.

Sara Monaco

Channel Manager, Northeast

BitSight Technologies

From securing executive sign-offs to diving down to the field level to ensure alignment on overall goals, Monaco wins kudos for her ability to bring teams together. She also has created hands-on technical workshops for partners.

Supna Agrawal

Sr. Advisor, Global Channel Strategy, Operations

BlackBerry Cylance

Agrawal is instrumental to the day-to-day operations that support BlackBerry Cylance’s global channel program. She ensures that global channel partners get immediate support for streamlining deal registration submissions and partner performance reporting.

Melissa Maggard

Channel Manager

CenturyLink

A once highly successful direct seller who made the pivot to the channel and never looked back, Maggard is responsible for CenturyLink’s competitive South Florida market. She is lauded as one of the company’s most knowledgeable channel managers.

Abigail Maines

Head of Channel Sales, Americas

Check Point Software Technologies

Maines brought her past experience from Cylance, Absolute Software and Dell to bear when she joined Check Point last summer. Her leadership and ability to attract top-quality talent had an immediate impact.

Julia Chen

VP, Partner Transformation

Cisco Systems

A dedicated partner champion, Chen has collaborated with Cisco leadership to help shape a partner-led customer experience strategy. She helped architect a partner communications governance to provide consistent information to solution providers globally.

Sheri Amarillas

Director, GSI Strategic Partnerships, Canada, U.S., Latin America

Citrix Systems

A self-described hands-on sales executive with a proven track record in product and application sales, Amarillas turned heads at Citrix as she guided a large global systems integrator to embrace the company’s cloud solution.

Sarah Mowczko

Partner Development Manager

CloudCheckr

Mowczko’s energy and passion for the channel come through via the strength of the relationships she has been able to build with partners at CloudCheckr, where she manages its largest distribution partnerships and helps execute its go-to-market strategy.

Che-Chyl Cortes

Channel Sales Manager

Cohesity

Cohesity partners love the positive, can-do attitude Cortes brings to each interaction. She is said to think strategically to help grow business jointly, while her willingness to invest in their success sets her apart. The credibility she brings to every conversation helps make her a top-notch manager.

Maureen O’Connell

Director, Partner Sales, Northeast Division

Comcast Business

Driven to make sure Comcast partners succeed, O’Connell is praised as “a true professional in every sense of the word.” She is a strong teammate who shares her knowledge with peers and is a role model for combining understanding and compassion with success.

Kristen Shumate McDowell

Global Enterprise Channel Communications Manager

CommScope

Shumate McDowell wins a gold star for launching a worldwide technical community, in which she worked with regional teams and internal systems engineers to deliver technical content to partners.

Shauna Kief

Manager, Worldwide Channel Alliances

Commvault

Considered a channel subject matter expert by colleagues and peers, Kief is well-respected inside and outside Commvault as she works tirelessly to implement and improve processes, answer questions and solve problems to ensure partners are successful.

Victoria Celis

Corporate Alliance Manager

CrowdStrike

Two years into her channel management career at CrowdStrike, Celis has jumped in with both feet, engaging with senior alliance managers to follow their lead and learn best practices. She has ramped up quickly, putting her focus on what matters most to partners.

Sara Gormally

Field Sales Manager

D&H Distributing

In her field leadership role at D&H, Gormally has been instrumental in expanding the distributor’s customer engagement efforts, working with manufacturers on new programs, building relationships across the channel and rolling out public sector initiatives.

Andrea Liew

Partner Success Manager

Datto

In the year since she joined Datto, Liew has been key to helping solution providers succeed and providing support to the vendor’s growing sales team in Canada as it works to build its global channel community of MSPs.

Nicola Sheppard

Director, Global Partner, OEM Business Transformation

Dell Technologies

Known as a driven teambuilder who leads with optimism, Sheppard has spearheaded multiple initiatives that have improved the speed and accuracy of processes and led to increased partner satisfaction.

Sommer Goodknecht

Channel Marketing Manager

Eaton

Described by colleagues as a leader who has her finger on the pulse of the channel, Goodknecht is said to be constantly evaluating partner feedback and incorporating suggested improvements into Eaton’s programs to better serve solution providers.

Yumi Nishiyama

Director, Global Service Partner Alliances

Exabeam

Nishiyama has been instrumental in helping Exabeam continue its transition to a more partnercentric services company. She is the liaison between partners and the company’s services and training teams and focuses on helping partners develop robust services offerings.

Kristi Houssiere

Sr. Director, National Channel Accounts

FireEye

Houssiere manages FireEye’s national partner team, which leads several major activities, including managed services and cloud initiatives. She drives sales, channel, marketing and operational efficiency and was key to restructuring the FireEye partner rebate program.

Lisa McCormack Moon

Sr. Marketing Manager, Partner Experience

Fortinet

McCormack-Moon wins kudos for enhancing Fortinet’s partner portal, including improvements to its partner locator tool. She also helped create an innovative rewards program and showed unwavering support for a new partner program.

Irina Åström

Program Director, Global Alliances, Channels

Functionize

Lauded as the “glue” that keeps Functionize’s program on track and its partners engaged, Åström carries full responsibility for the development and maintenance of the cloud-based software testing company’s portal and training assets.

Aimee Catalano

Director, Global Partner Marketing

Google

Catalano has released packaged marketing kits that are fully customizable by partners, advised partners on the marketing tools that generate the best return in pipeline and conversion, and served as a guiding light for partners delivering Google technology.

Emily David

Worldwide Channel Sales Manager, GreenLake

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

As HPE leads solution providers to adopt its pay-per-use hybrid cloud platform, David is driving that transformation for channel partners in the Americas, U.K. and Ireland, France, Northern Europe and the Middle East.

Patricia Harris

VP, Head of Marketing, Digital Infrastructure

Hitachi Vantara

Much of the credit for the progress Hitachi Vantara has made in building out its partner marketing hub and the proliferation of campaigns and content available to partners goes to Harris, who leads a team of 125 cross-functional, globally dispersed staff.

Virginie Meyer

Partner Demand Generation, Global Promotions Manager

HP Inc.

A seven-year veteran who began her HP career as a financial analyst, Meyer brought her economic know-how to bear as she spent several months last year redesigning MDF processes to ensure they better align HP with its partners.

Zivka “Zoey” Stankovic

Channel Business Development Manager, Americas

HYCU

Stankovic drives HYCU’s channel business development in Canada and Latin America. She works tirelessly with partners to ensure they are best equipped to address customer needs.

Harriet-Marcia Shakir

Director, Global Skills, Expertise

IBM

Shakir leads the skills and enablement strategy, processes and execution for IBM Business Partners and IBM ecosystem employees. She ensures Business Partners and the ecosystem team have the skills to succeed in the market.

Natasha Boyko

Director, Channel Development

ID Agent

Employee No. 5 at ID Agent, Boyko has filled a number of channel success, sales and business development roles. She has built a great reputation and trust with partners and often goes beyond the call of duty for them. She also serves as a mentor to new colleagues.

Sandy Janes

Sr. Director, Worldwide Partner Programs, Operations

Infoblox

Janes and her team have developed a solid foundation of tools and programs that spur success for Infoblox partners, to whom she has brought faster time to market, increased profitability and simplicity.

Cheryl Rang

Director, Advanced Solutions

Ingram Micro

Described as a smart, natural leader and a great listener, Rang is said to be a humble person who is a great problem-solver and is good at scaling her mind, digging into the details and being strategic at the same time.

Kim Carlton

Director, Channel Marketing, Sales Development

Intel

Carlton helped Intel advance its channel business by leading its Marketing Center of Excellence team, which identified channel needs, developed resolution teams and drove change that resulted in stronger channel capabilities and programs.

Jessica Knieff

Partner Marketing Manager

IntelePeer

Knieffplayed a crucial role in launching a new partner portal and IntelePeer IQ training tracks to educate partners on the company’s new Communications Platform as a Service. She was also instrumental in helping with field marketing efforts.

Ivana Abruzzese

Sr. Channel Marketing Manager, North America

Kaspersky Lab

Having worked in Kaspersky’s channel marketing department for over 11 years, Abruzzese’s marketing prowess is completely aligned with Kaspersky’s channel strategies, and she continues to drive channel initiatives and relationships with great success.

Esther Chow

Director, Sales Operations, Customer Success

Laserfiche

Known as a diligent employee who is a great communicator and an exceptional trainer, Chow was promoted to her current position in 2019. Her work has had a tremendous impact on standardizing operations for Laserfiche’s channel community.

Sabrina Hall

Director, Worldwide Channel Business Development

Lexmark

Hall helped bring the idea of Lexmark’s Industry Advantage to life, creating a vertical-specific content program through which solution providers can access battle cards, webinars, training and guidance.

Cassandra Jeppson

Director, North America Channel Programs

Lenovo

Jeppson has expanded communication channels and increased the feedback Lenovo receives from channel account managers, distributors and partners. She’s a firm believer that the success of Lenovo’s programs team is dependent on the success of its partners.

Christine Lemaire

Partner Business Manager

Micro Focus

Lemaire’s assertiveness and desire to help Micro Focus partners win are crucial factors in helping the company’s channel move forward. Her approach to assisting partners to on-board to its channel program allows them to achieve success more quickly.

Melissa Mulholland

Director, Cloud Enablement, Profitability

Microsoft

Mulholland deserves kudos for developing Cloud Practice Development Playbooks, which cover everything from cloud migration and infrastructure to building a business around artificial intelligence, to how to recruit and retain top talent.

Mara McMahon

Head of Partner, Service Provider Partner GTM

NetApp

McMahon runs the Fueled by NetApp Program, which delivers consultancy services to partners looking to transform to consumption-based models. She has developed a unique methodology resulting in ever-growing recognition and trust with NetApp partners.

Jamie Godoy

Sr. Manager, Channel Operations

Nvidia

Godoy has added value for Nvidia partners by helping to measure the effectiveness of the channel, redesigning process flows for payments, submitting proof-of-performance for ease of doing business and adding features to the company’s partner portal.

Jessica Ponce

Sr. Manager, Worldwide Partner Success

Okta

Ponce has been instrumental in driving the adoption of the Okta Partner Connect program and migrating longtail partners to distribution. She has worked tirelessly to create, document, launch and migrate over to a formalized program.

Nicole DiDio

Marketing Director

Opaq

Described as always being one step ahead in engaging with partners, DiDio was a key player in organizing Opaq’s first Partner Summit. Opaq’s marketing capabilities with partners are critical, and she has built a strong foundation to ensure success.

Anh Profiti

Partner Sales Manager

Oracle NetSuite

Profiti manages several NetSuite partner relationships across the Northeast U.S. As the front-line relationship manager with these partners, her ability to engage, collaborate and drive successful outcomes has led many of them to exceed past benchmarks for NetSuite growth.

Jenna Aidikoff

Channel Business Manager

Palo Alto Networks

Aidikoff has implemented a new discipline around focus partners, which resulted in accelerated growth for the partners in her territory. She has also been at the forefront of routes to market, engaging with global systems integrator partners on regional plans.

Ladina Lane

Sr. Marketing Specialist

Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America

Lane introduced a comarketing incentive to help position channel partners as trusted advisers in rugged technology. She also led the brand transformation of the Toughbook Authorized Mobility Partner Program.

Jennifer Bodell

VP, Channel

Pax8

Bodell and her team managed over 100 events in 2019. Described as an organized and creative team player who spent 75 percent of her time meeting with partners to better understand how to help them get ahead, her commitment to the channel brings tremendous value to the cloud distributor.

Cary Reyes

Global Operations Compliance Specialist

Poly

Reyes has played an integral part in the development and structure of compliance operations at Poly. She is constantly working with internal- and external-facing teams to ensure proper compliance and procedures are being adhered to.

Krystal Gillis

Order Management Representative, Sales

Progress Software

Gillis is responsible for processing orders for the entire North America region for Progress Software’s distributors as well as training them. She is also there at the end of every month, every quarter and the end of the year ensuring orders get in and are closed.

Jennifer Krystofiak

Sr. Partner Enablement Program Manager

Proofpoint

With over 13 years of channel experience, Krystofiak is responsible for designing, building and executing programs to amplify partner knowledge. Her aim is to help Proofpoint partners become move savvy, more informed and more valuable to customers.

Leah Peterson

Director, Americas Channel Marketing

Pure Storage

Peterson prides herself on being a visionary thinker with an ability to develop new business opportunities and establish brand recognition. She has a strong track record of coordinating strategic business directions to maximize company profit and partner growth.

Victoria Brumbaugh

Director, Global Partner Strategy, Operations

Qlik

Brumbaugh delivers value for Qlik’s partners by taking a data-driven approach to discovering key business insight and developing tools to tackle the largest challenges. She also helps the partner account manager team focus on the right partners at the right time.

Rachael Van Devender

Global Partner Strategy Manager

Red Hat

Van Devender leads the Apex Partner Program, which provides rewards and incentives to partners investing in emerging technologies. Enablement has been a key focus to differentiate the most capable partners and drive better business outcomes.

Julia Foster

Director, Partner Marketing

Salesforce

Foster built and led Salesforce’s Consulting Partner Recruit and Grow Marketing team this year, where she is credited with doing “a stellar job” designing and executing the marketing strategy to support recruiting and on-boarding new consulting partners globally.

Penny Bonanno

Mobile Channel Sales Manager

Samsung Electronics America

Bonanno is a founding member of the mobility channel program. She manages two of its largest resellers, growing them significantly. Her work to help them build innovative solutions has received considerable attention.

Jacqueline Halpin

Global Digital and Partner Events, Experience COE

SAP

Halpin is bringing the knowledge she gained working on SAP’s North America marketing teams to bear in her new role, which she assumed in January, to transform the experience for attendees of SAP’s digital and partner events.

Taylor White

Channel Marketing Specialist

Scale Computing

In her first year in channel marketing, White not only quickly picked it up but also was a large part of Scale Computing’s success throughout 2019, including contributing to content development and partner enablement.

Nermine Marwan

EcoXpert Digital Operations Manager

Schneider Electric

Marwan was instrumental in launching the EcoXpert Digital Channel Management Tool, designed to allow the channel team to manage local partners effectively and seamlessly. She also helps highlight progress and identify gaps through several reporting dashboards.

Portia Price

Global Channel, Alliance Marketing Manager

SecurityScorecard

As a “one-woman band,” Price has brought a new look and voice to SecurityScorecard’s channel program, developing a number of compelling campaigns and programs. She is described as creative, knowledgeable and collaborative and as an invaluable member of her team.

Kathi Lozzi

Sr. Channel Account Manager

SentinelOne

Lozzi gets accolades from partners and co-workers for being a consummate channel professional as she strives to engage solution providers in the Northeast and North Central U.S. for SentinelOne, which recently closed a $200 million funding round.

Shannon McCallion

Director, Field, Channel Marketing

Siemplify

McCallion is always working behind the scenes to help Siemplify pull off top-notch partner events. Whether by suggesting big event ideas and new venues or just helping with the details, colleagues say she makes pipeline-building events happen for the channel.

Lydia Tobiasz

Channel Account Manager

Silver Peak Systems

Tobiasz is lauded as a channel leader who excels at long-term thinking and invests in building lasting relationships. Her ability to bring team members and technology alliance partners together to build a compelling story for channel partners gets high marks.

Sara Ferreira

Director, MSP

Skout Cybersecurity

Ferreira brought Skout’s first MSP on board and is an integral part of the team. She was the first person selling to the MSP channel when everyone else was selling direct, and her contributions have helped the company pivot to a purely channel-driven business model.

Michelle Tatom

Global Account Director

SkyKick

Tatom is focused on helping SkyKick’s larger, strategic accounts accelerate their cloud business. She works to understand their challenges and identify new opportunities. From coordinating launch plans to consulting on strategy, she is in constant communication with partners.

Katie Ecklund

Sr. Director, Partners

Snowflake

As one of the first at Snowflake to support partners, Ecklund is known for consistency in how she engages with the channel. She has deployed multiple go-to-market plays with partners so that they align closely with the company’s field sellers.

Stefanie Hammond

Sr. Channel Sales Specialist

SolarWinds MSP

Hammond has earned a reputation throughout SolarWinds MSP’s channel community as someone who understands the business, knows what’s important to partners and knows how to guide them to success.

Tiffany Haselhorst

Sr. Sales Manager, Inside Sales, Americas

SonicWall

With a focus on channel partner dynamics and enabling partners to manage their cybersecurity practices, Haselhorst has helped SonicWall develop powerful and holistic channel programs that ensure partners are enabled with the right tools to grow their security practice.

Laura King

Sr. Manager, Product Operations

Sophos

King works behind the scenes managing licensing, order processing and delivery. She helps Sophos deliver a topnotch customer experience, which goes a long way toward making the company a perennial favorite in the CRN Annual Report Card awards.

Barbara Forester

Manager, Channel Marketing

Spectrum Enterprise

A self-described “multitasking machine,” Forester brings her background in sales and business development to bear as she builds channel-specific campaigns and marketing communications to enable sales and recruiting for Spectrum Enterprise.

Lauren Migliozzi

Cloud ISV, Developer Ecosystems

Splunk

Migliozzi has shown leadership capabilities and an uncanny knack for combining attention to detail with high-level messaging. Colleagues say she has executed with urgency and focus while bringing field sales and partners together to work on common goals.

Melissa Babiak

Sr. Regional Account Manager

Star2Star Communications

Babiak is a hands-on, engaged team player who is always up to date on partner needs. She makes it a point to stay current with all of the latest developments at Star2Star, whether in marketing, products or sales-related areas, so that she can keep partners informed.

Diane Sullivan

Sr. Director, Business Development

Synnex

Sullivan runs Synnex’s business development team for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She not only is always willing to talk customers through the many programs the distributor offers, but she also spends a lot of time training the vendor reps on their own programs as well.

Jennifer Fonseca

Sr. Partner Development Manager

Tableau Software

Fonseca gets credit for playing a key role in building a partner sales culture at Tableau by driving impactful partners to accelerate their business. She’s recognized as a role model and coach, particularly for emerging talent on the team.

Hillary Hatch

Associate Marketing Strategist

Tech Data

Hatch advises a growing group of channel partners on building robust and sustainable marketing plans that align to their business strategies. Her ability to simplify marketing activities into meaningful tactics has helped her become a key resource for partners.

Tia Marie Garaas

Channel Program Communications Manager

Thales

Garaas manages Thales’ partner communications, working through email, webcasts and the partner portal to connect with solution providers, get them excited to participate in the channel program and keep them engaged.

Alison Adkins

Business Development Manager

ThreatQuotient

Adkins has updated ThreatQuotient’s spiff program, presented to partners, and even found and closed an opportunity with one of the company’s largest channel partners. Colleagues say she has had a palpable impact since joining the team.

Kelly Layton

Business Partner Channel Manager, Pacific Northwest

T-Mobile

Layton thinks outside the proverbial box when it comes to partner engagement in the Pacific Northwest. She has a knack for understanding a partner’s capabilities and business model and finding new revenue streams.

Hwei Oh

Chief Marketing Officer

Ubiq Security

Oh fully embraces the value that the channel brings. At Ubiq, she is working to enable and manage partners as a natural extension of the sales team. She understands that partners don’t have the bandwidth to re-create the wheel, so she arms them with the essentials to ramp up quickly.

Laura Chadwick

Cloud Aggregation Strategy Manager

Veeam Software

When Chadwick joined Veeam last year, she brought her knowledge of how to effectively leverage cloud aggregators to build mutually beneficial programs that drive recurring revenue for the manufacturer, the service provider and any aggregator.

Alison Webb-Fantillo

Sr. Director, Marketing

Vertiv

Webb-Fantillo has worked to bring a partner-first approach to Vertiv’s marketing strategy and operations. She hosted a successful partner summit that brought together over 200 Vertiv partners, and she secured additional funding for marketing programs with top partners.

Patti Lewis

Sr. Director, Americas Systems Integrators, Systems Outsourcers

VMware

Lewis has been a highly effective change agent at VMware, transforming a large portion of her organization and hiring new, high-performance, diverse talent. Many of her best practices are now being deployed worldwide.

Catherine Boyce

Sr. Channel Manager

Vonage

Boyce says she thrives in environments where she’s able to help others, fashioning herself into a leader and mentor for her peers in the industry. Over the past year she has trained new Vonage channel managers on best practices.

Sharon Li

Product Manager

WatchGuard Technologies

Li’s mission is to uncover product, licensing and ecosystem enhancements to help partners as their business models evolve. She also launched WatchGuard’s first zero-commitment, zero-up-front-cost automated subscription billing model.

Sarah Morgan

Manager, MSP Direct

Webroot, an OpenText company

Morgan brings a deep understanding of what partners need to succeed. As a result of hard work that led to the growth of many partners, she was promoted to a manager role, with more opportunity to help build a sales organization to replicate her successes.

Katie Montey

National Channel Manager

Zebra Technologies

Montey leads Zebra’s CDW team, where it has seen double-digit growth across all product categories. In addition to the strategic planning and leveraging of rebate programs, she is always bringing new ideas to drive mind share and sales with CDW.

Emily Weeks

Director, Sales, Cloud, Alliances

Zerto

Prior to her March promotion, Weeks led Zerto’s cloud provider team for the Eastern U.S. and Canada, where she immediately made an impact after joining last year by establishing an organizational culture of collaboration and teamwork that produces results.

Alyson Lynch

Demand Generation Marketing

Zimperium

Zimperium’s channel wouldn’t have a number of critical assets, from email templates to battle cards, without Lynch’s guidance. She is responsible for overall demand generation and is critical to keeping the mobile security company’s channel running.

Kristin Hintlian

DMR Channel Manager

Zix

Hintlian is setting the bar high in the Northern Central territory for Zix. Her success is not only reflected in her sales numbers, but also in partners’ excitement to work with her. She injects creativity into all the work she does.

Kari Shafer

Channel Marketing Manager

Zoom

Shafer is chartered with delivering partner happiness by helping to implement to- and through-partner marketing initiatives globally at Zoom. She prides herself on being able to juggle diverse responsibilities in “high-octane” marketing environments.