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:
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
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.