As part of the 2024 Women of the Channel, CRN is highlighting 100 women at solution provider organizations whose insight and influence in their respective companies help drive channel success.

CRN’s Women of the Channel list is an annual honoring of the impressive accomplishments of women within the channel.

The Solution Provider Power 100, which accompanies the longstanding Women of the Channel Power 100, highlights a select group of 100 executives at solution provider organizations who are bringing their insight, influence and experience to their respective companies to help drive channel success, building strong relationships with their technology vendors and prioritizing the best possible customer experiences.

Here are the honorees named to the 2024 Solution Provider Power 100. For more Women of the Channel coverage, check out the Power 100 list honoring select vendor and distribution executives or the full database on CRN.com.

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Dawn Sizer

CEO

3rd Element Consulting

A business leader and technologist, Sizer has built her career around her ability to understand people and concepts quickly and helping fellow solution providers as a subject matter expert on business and security. The company is seeing growth of at least 25 percent year over year under her leadership.

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Mary Calderwood

VP, Finance

Advanced Network Management

Calderwood manages all aspects of the financial management at ANM. Since last year, she has developed a successful road map for faster and more accurate services in the quote-to-cash process flow. Calderwood is helping the company through her focus on leadership development and training to attract, develop and retain top talent.

Yvette Holt

Director, Professional Services

American Digital

Holt is directly responsible for the success of American Digital’s services delivery. Her hard work has paid off, too. With an increase in revenue of more than 20 percent from the previous year, the Professional Services Organization has been responsible for much of the company’s success under Holt’s leadership.

Linda Maiorana

Director, Service Delivery

Aspire Technology Partners

An executive who excels at bridging project management and engineering, Maiorana today strengthens the operational alignment between project management and engineering service delivery for Aspire. She is responsible for the seamless management and handover of projects to the company’s customers.

Elizabeth Kubycheck

Chief People, Brand Officer

ATSG

An omni-channel brand marketing and HR strategies pro, Kubycheck is responsible for leading the employee experience at ATSG. Her passion lies in seamlessly integrating newly acquired teams and steering the company’s recruitment efforts to bring on individuals who share a dedication to ATSG’s existing and future partnerships.

Maryann Pagano

CEO

BlackHawk Data

Pagano has more than two decades of experience in the IT industry coupled with a proven track record of cultivating successful relationships. She is responsible for establishing and nurturing the company’s partner ecosystem. Under her leadership since the company was founded in 2018, BlackHawk has seen revenue growth year after year of about 80 percent.

Sarah Foote

VP, Marketing

Blue Mantis

A transformative marketing leader, Foote leads all aspects of marketing and communications to accelerate Blue Mantis’ brand visibility and increase lead generation and top-of-the-funnel sales conversion. Over the past year, she led the creation of an annual partner engagement program for Blue Mantis, promoting collaboration among teams.

Patty Apple

VP, Marketing

BlueAlly Technology Solutions

Apple has 18 years of experience in channel marketing and is a results-focused marketing professional. Her strengths lie in partner relations, creation and execution of brand awareness programs such as multilevel appointment-setting campaigns and executive events. Over the past year, she has built brand awareness for the company’s managed services division.

Sarah Kydd

Chief Strategy Officer

Bluum

A Bluum veteran for the past 12 years who has held various leadership positions, Kydd’s role for the last six months has been focused on building out the company’s strategic goals for the next two years, which includes a number of initiatives designed to improve relationships with and support for the organization’s own channel.

Katie Percy

AVP, Marketing

CDI

Armed with more than 17 years of experience in marketing, including graphic design and partnership management in the IT industry, Percy recently collaborated with more than 50 individual channel partners throughout the year to develop effective and successful co-branded events and campaigns. She also carried out a new successful project management process.

Tawna Perkins

Associate VP, Partner Alliances

CDI

Perkins leads a team focused on partner programs and alliances by seeking out the why that brings relationship sales and manufacturers together to solve customer problems and grow profitability. She has worked to understand and maximize programs to increase CDI’s back-end rebate and incentive dollars to bring more immediate profitability to the company.

Kim Poeppelmeier

AVP, HCI Business Unit

CDI

With a nearly two-decade-long career, Poeppelmeier has cultivated a wealth of experience in project management, leadership and strategic planning within the dynamic realms of technology and business solutions. In the past year, she helped realign CDI’s project managers to work more effectively with engineers to build repeatable templates for future projects.

Aletha Noonan

SVP

CDW

Noonan, a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience, is responsible for leading the U.S. commercial sales organization for CDW. In the past year, she was the executive sponsor of CDW’s “Better Together” events in which she and her team delivered programming and created connections to fuel and elevate their partnerships.

Brittany Fugate

President, CEO

Cenetric Network Services

As CEO of Cenetric Network Services, which she founded in 2008, the company has grown into a respected provider of managed IT services, specializing in cybersecurity and cloud computing. Fugate approaches leadership with collaboration and empathy and is an ardent believer in the power of mentorship and continuous learning.

Robyn Howes

President

Certified Nets

As president, Howes is responsible for managing technology as well as running a successful business. This translates to shaping the company’s security offerings, leading training for engineers and communicating to customers in plain language. Howes comes from a family of entrepreneurs and enjoys “rolling her sleeves up” and getting things done.

Kathleen Kinka

VP, Marketing

Comport Consulting

As Comport’s vice president of marketing and member of the leadership team, Kinka specializes in growth strategies to drive top-line revenue. She is a strong advocate of marketing alignment with the business and meeting the needs of customers through organizationwide excellence, strong values and clear communications.

Dawn Roos

Director, Operations

Comport Consulting

A Comport veteran of 30 years, Roos today oversees the company’s entire sales operations process, from OEM deal registration through customer invoicing. Under her leadership, Comport Consulting is implementing automation throughout its processes as it strives to provide excellent experiences for the sales teams as well as customers.

Anne Sullivan

CRO, U.S.

Compucom

In her CRO seat, Sullivan’s priorities are improving and optimizing the company’s customer experience to drive satisfaction and deliver tangible business growth. She’s passionate about service excellence, associate engagement and creating a rewarding environment at Compucom. Amid Compucom’s transition post-acquisition, she led the team to growth in three consecutive quarters.

Kara Rudy

VP, Marketing

Compugen

IT marketer, entrepreneur and business leader, Rudy brings nearly two decades of experience working in and for technology companies to her current role with Compugen. Over the past year, she’s spearheaded several strategic projects, including team alignment, a rebrand and a website redesign. She also led the development of a partner marketing strategy.

Rosemary Pron

Associate VP, SLED

Computer Design & Integration

Sales leader Prom leads the education and government vertical for CDI, In 2023 she doubled the company’s public sector revenue after dramatic growth over the past four years gave CDI the opportunity to verticalize. Pron is a strong believer in women supporting other women.

Anna Philbrick

VP, Client Experience, Operations

Connection

A seasoned operations leader with more than 23 years of experience in the IT industry, Philbrick has been instrumental in shaping the organization’s success. In the past year, she’s demonstrated her expertise by bridging the gap between OEM and partner processes and the company’s internal processes and systems.

Lisa Trisciani

VP, SLED Field Sales

Connection Public Sector Solutions

Trisciani, a veteran of PC Connection for more than 29 years, is responsible for leading the field sales organization that is accountable for state and local agencies, K-12 schools, higher-education institutions and teaching hospitals. Recently, she’s been focused on enhancing her technical and leadership skills.

Liz Costerisan

Director, Strategy, Services

ConRes

Throughout her two-decade tenure at ConRes, Costerisan has navigated various roles. She currently spearheads marketing, managed services, strategic partner alliances and customer success. Over the past year, she’s been heads-down-focused on driving strategic partnerships, pioneering innovative marketing, advocating for diversity, fueling revenue growth, gaining industry recognition and fostering customer-centric strategies.

Georgia Vasilion

VP, Public Sector

Converge Technology Solutions

Vasilion shares her knowledge of the challenges in the public sector and market with the internal channels team to further enable the team to grow Converge’s footprint with its channel partners. This helps the sale team engage with partners that have a similar focus.

Rosana Filingeri

VP

Cybersafe Solutions

Filingeri leads a team responsible for developing and cultivating global business development opportunities for Cybersafe and its partner base. Her passion for the industry and expertise have allowed her to quickly rise through the ranks, allowing her to truly understand what’s important to customers and partners alike.

Mary Beth Hamilton

CMO

Dataprise

A 17-year veteran in the MSP space, Hamilton is responsible for Dataprise’s national go-to-market strategy, channel strategy and strategic partnerships, as well as product management. She was instrumental in turning the channel into one of the top sources of new revenue in 2024 for the company.

Sonia St. Charles

Founder, CEO

Davenport Group

St. Charles brings more than 30 years of business experience to the company she co-founded in 2001. With her extensive corporate background in operations and management, she has led Davenport Group to double-digit growth year over year for the past decade. She also guides the strategic vision, direction and culture of the organization.

Kristy Wilke

Director, Sales

Davenport Group

Wilke is responsible for managing a growing sales team working to serve customers across the country. She is responsible for hiring and mentoring employees to make sure the Davenport Group team has the sales and technical foundations required to deliver successful solutions to customers.

Karyn Schell

President

DP Solutions

A visionary leader and dedicated professional with a track record of excellence in management and IT, Schell is committed to delivering exceptional customer service, guiding her team and building strong relationships with anyone she meets. She’s highly passionate about the company’s core values and showing her appreciation for its dedicated staff.

Linda Ford

VP, Marketing

DynTek Services

With nearly 30 years of market experience, Ford specializes in a broad range of technology and channel marketing solutions. Today, she’s responsible for managing corporate communications, demand generation, content development, sales support and vendor co-marketing programs. Ford works closely with the company’s sales leaders, technical team and strategic partners to create marketing and sales plans.

Julie Haley

Co-Founder, CEO

Edge Solutions

A former business litigator who helped launch Edge from her kitchen table in 2008, Haley now runs an $80 million company that specializes in infrastructure, cloud, networking and security solutions and services. She has set out to invest heavily in cutting-edge OEM partners and more engineering talent to deliver solutions and services in the U.S. and abroad.

Jeanne Miller

President

Ener Systems

As the leader of women-owned Ener Systems, Miller started the company in 1997 to fill a need she noticed for quality technical help for local businesses. She’s been able to leverage her vast channel connections to supply Ener’s customers with the technology they need quickly.

Rita Barry

Director, Public Cloud Partners, Alliances

Ensono

An experienced channel go-to-market strategist, Barry manages the co-building and co-selling relationships with major hyperscalers, including AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud. In her eight years at Ensono, she has contributed significantly to the company’s growth by fostering robust strategic alliances and expanding business through indirect channels and co-sell partnerships.

Robin Uhl

Director, Partners, Alliances

Ensono

With a strong background in channels and alliances, business development, sales and marketing, Uhl today is responsible for leading relationships with the channel, alliance partners and third-party advisers while guiding her team in building mutually beneficial partnerships, driving opportunities in the channel and enabling innovative ways to go to market together.

Pamela Diaz

President, CEO

Entara

Under Diaz’s leadership, Entara is committed to connecting organizations with the IT and cybersecurity solutions they need to thrive. Last year, she helped close the second largest customer in Entara’s history through a channel relationship. Inside and outside work, Diaz is passionate about building relationships.

Karen Penticost

VP, Client Success, Channel Strategy

Envision Technology Advisors

A former life coach, Penticost is greatly suited to her current role in which she wears many hats. But her focus is primarily on the channel, including growing partner relations and maintaining customer success. Penticost recently launched a new channel partner program within her organization.

Susanna Woods

Chief Growth Officer

Evolving Solutions

A technology veteran of 40 years, Woods has held a variety of sales and sales leadership positions at vendors such as HP and IBM, but now she’s on the solution provider side. In her current role, she leads the sales, marketing, service delivery, partner success and practice teams and is responsible for the company’s continued growth.

Mary Catherine Wilson

CMO

Future Tech

An experienced marketing and channel executive, Wilson is a leader who cares deeply about customers, growing the business and developing teams. Today, she is responsible for partnerships and all marketing functions, including brand, experiential, communications, digital and the field to deliver business outcomes.

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Michelle Jones

Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliances

GuidePoint Security

A cybersecurity channel and sales professional for 12 years on the vendor side, Jones now is busy covering a select list of solution provider GuidePoint’s most strategic partners at a national level. She manages 13 of the company’s top 40 accounts, including three of the top five accounts.

Hayley McRae

Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliances

GuidePoint Security

With more than a decade of experience, McRae excels in channel management and fostering partner relationships within the IT industry. Since joining GuidePoint, she swiftly united the leadership team to establish a go-to-market partner strategy, aligning investments and resources for Fiscal Year 2024.

Tristan Tarpinian

Director, Strategic Alliances

GuidePoint Security

Tarpinian leverages her decade of industry experience to collaborate closely with top strategic channel partners. Her role focuses on cultivating strong relationships that ensure growth and success for GuidePoint Security, and she has a strong track record for creating successful channel programs.

Susanna Song

CMO

High Wire Networks

At High Wire, Song oversees all internal and external communications and drives brand awareness and lead generation through digital channels. She enjoys crafting stories around new technology and cybersecurity services that bring value to partners and their customers in the B2B channel.

Megan Amdahl

SVP, Client Experience, North America COO

Insight Enterprises

A thought leader to her company’s key partners, Amdahl assumed her current role last May and today she’s driving Insight’s Client First initiatives, partner alliances, Anything-as-a-Service and Device-as-a-Service programs, client operations, procurement, inventory, integration services, client fulfillment and sustainability centers.

Brenda Hudson

SVP, Commercial Sales, Sales Enablement, Learning, Development

Insight Enterprises

After joining Insight in 2015, Hudson has been on the rise. Today, she leads Insight’s commercial sales teammates across North America to help customers achieve desired business outcomes through the company’s technology solutions. She’s committed to building unique relationships with each partner through collaborative programs.

Shannon Stewart

VP, Business Transformation

Insight Enterprises

In her role, Stewart focuses on business architecture, analysis and change management, with over a decade of experience transforming processes and systems to meet organizational, teammate, customer and partner needs. She believes diversity makes us stronger and puts it into action with her family, friends, co-workers and team.

Jill Kavalsky

VP, Strategic Alliances

Iron Bow Technologies

Kavalsky is responsible for all aspects of Iron Bow’s relationships with manufacturers, suppliers and distributors and is dedicated to developing strategies aligning the company’s initiatives alongside key partners to achieve mutual success. Ultimately, she believes strong and solid relationships are what is most important in the business world.

Shelliy Cymbalski

CMO

iT1 Source

Cymbalski started in the channel two days after graduating college and 28 years later, she’s grateful every day for her successful career. As CMO, she spent the past year creating and launching intent-based campaigns to drive new opportunities for the company and she worked with iT1’s experts to understand the solutions and build new marketing content.

Heather Carlson

SVP, Partner Management

ITsavvy

A strategic thinker and a celebrated leader, Carlson has been instrumental in driving the company’s channel strategy and partner ecosystem growth. Under her leadership, ITsavvy has launched and grown its partner team. She is recognized for her pioneering initiatives in developing a partner-centric culture at ITsavvy, which emphasizes collaborative success, technological advancement and inclusive growth.

Kelly Nuckolls

CMO

Jeskell Systems

Nuckolls is leveraging her experience to elevate marketing strategies at Jeskell Systems. Her proven ability to forge strategic partnerships and leverage key connections with vendors, distributors and customers will undoubtedly propel Jeskell’s channel business.

Deborah Nevin

VP, Global Strategic Alliances

Kyndryl

An experienced channel leader with 25 years of experience in varying roles and leadership, Nevin over the past year systematically supported Kyndryl’s hyperscaler growth area. She successfully on-boarded and established strategic relationships with key growth alliances to enhance Kyndryl’s solution offering portfolio.

Jessica Soqui

SVP, Services

Logicalis US

Soqui is responsible for all service delivery functions, including managed services, professional services and service desk operations. She’s put her finance background to good use to partner with the services team at Logicalis, where she quickly became integral to the company’s services organization.

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Marie Ashway

Director, Marketing

Mainline Information Systems

Ashway is a constant professional in the information technology industry with more than 40 years of experience in executive marketing and sales and sales management, both in the channel and as a manufacturer. In her current role, she leads the marketing strategy and execution for the national $1 billion-plus solution provider powerhouse.

Tracey Hayes

SVP, Sales

MicroAge

Hayes heads up MicroAge’s national sales organization, helping businesses secure, accelerate and transform with the right mix of technology solutions and services. She maintains strong relationships and nurtures solid connections with associates, customers and partners, all of which lead to satisfaction and success for all parties.

Heather Schaan

COO

Microserve

Since joining Microserve more than 20 years ago, Schaan has had the opportunity to work in many different roles across industries and geographies. Today, her focus is on driving continuous growth and improvement of Microserve’s services to support customers in achieving their visions through technology.

Elena Shorb

VP, Channels, Alliances

Mission Cloud

With more than nine years of channel sales experience, Shorb has played a pivotal role in the company’s exponential growth. Notably, she has positioned Mission Cloud as a top partner in AWS marketplace offerings, particularly when it comes to GenAI. Shorb is also committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Susan Kozak

CEO

MNJ Technologies

Kozak founded MNJ Technologies with her husband in 2002. Under her leadership, the company implemented MNJ Advanced Technology Services, powered by a strategic team of engineers and subject matter experts dedicated to elevating and expanding the company’s core offerings. Kozak is committed to creating visibility for women in leadership in the IT arena.

Megan Reed

VP, Growth

NetGain Technologies

Reed has been helping SMB leaders create reliable IT strategies for business success for more than 12 years. Having served in a variety of roles at NetGain, both marketing and with the executive team, Reed’s current focus is to build stronger teams for growth and customer success.

Maggie McGovern

VP, Sales

Ntirety

A leader in sales and customer success, McGovern keeps busy helping customers get more than just secure and dependable technology. In all her roles with the company, she ensured that every customer received guidance, partnership and the ability to rest easy knowing that their mission- critical applications were being supported.

Christine Barr

CEO, Business Process Outsourcing Services Division, NTT

NTT Data

Barr leads 3,200 employees responsible for the delivery of customer experience managed services, AI-driven digitalized customer journeys and communications expense management services. Building on her passion for customer experience and a track record for delivering operational effectiveness and innovation, she leads by establishing a people-focused culture.

Leigh Juul

VP, Sales

NTT Data

An NTT veteran of more than 25 years, Juul most recently assumed responsibility for the global accounts/majors team, where she has initiated a renewed focus and is building a robust team. Under her leadership, her teams are constantly building go-to-market strategies that meet customers’ business needs and introducing new solutions.

Kerry Kreighbaum

SVP, Strategic Alliances, One NTT

NTT Data

With more than 25 years of IT, sales strategy and alliance experience, Kreighbaum in her current role collaborates closely with sales, digital offerings and industry teams to further operationalize the cross-sell and partner ecosystem within NTT Data. In the past year, she and her team drove a consistent strategy and playbook for partner engagement.

Jennifer Roy

CEO

Nucleus Networks

Roy brings a wealth of expertise to Nucleus Networks and the industry at large and worked her way up to the CEO seat in 2023. In Roy’s first two years at Nucleus, she introduced and delivered on key operational improvements to enhance the company’s customer experience and culture.

Jasmine Mercedes

Director, Operations

Overview Technology Solutions

Mercedes’ gumption has facilitated the fast-paced growth that Overview Technology Solutions has experienced over the past few years. She is currently in charge of all vendor vetting for the organization and spearheads any new relationships. She feels fulfillment in driving meaningful change within the organization by the work she performs.

Kelly Sutton

VP, Business Development

Peak UpTime

With more than 30 years of experience in the channel, Sutton brings a wealth of knowledge, industry insight and passion for innovation to Peak UpTime, where she has held a number of leadership positions. In her latest role, Sutton oversees creating strategic business partnerships and driving new revenue opportunities.

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Liza Sisler

Global Director, Partner Marketing, Alliances, Programs

Perficient

Sisler has more than 25 years of experience in the technology consulting space, and she’s held roles in sales, business development, alliance management and partner marketing. In her current role, she leads the company’s partner team, which is focused on alliance management, partner marketing and partner program support.

Amy Williams

CEO/Owner

PIER Group

As leader of her own solution provider business, Williams has spent more than 30 years in the technology industry. She is a big believer in building relationships, and she takes a multifaceted approach to connecting all parties involved in order to achieve a successful customer experience.

Felise Katz

President, CEO

PKA Technologies

A longtime leader and business developer, Katz is responsible for the growth and success of the company. Her tenacity and passion for business and process efficiency help her guide customers through digital transformation and help PKA Technologies fulfill technical solutions for a variety of customers.

Vanessa Simmons

SVP, Business Development

Pythian Services

Simmons, whose career spans more than 27 years in sales, marketing and business development, currently heads Pythian’s cloud partnerships and is responsible for building relationships with companies including Google Cloud, Microsoft and Amazon. Most recently, Simmons was instrumental in establishing Pythian as one of an elite handful of Google Cloud MSPs.

JuliAn Coy

Business Applications Principal

RSM US

Coy is a results-driven leader with 17 years of experience leading high-performing channel teams. As the only woman on a 10-person consulting service line leadership team, Coy over the past year has improved collaboration across channel partners and internal service line delivery and growth teams.

Michelle Ambrose

SVP, Strategic Partnerships

SADA, An Insight Company

Ambrose over the past two decades has held a number of roles across the technology industry and the public sector—from sales strategy, operations, change management and communications. In establishing the company’s strategic partnerships team, Ambrose elevated the management of SADA’s Google Alliance to create more efficiencies in how SADA and Google engage.

Narine Galstian

CMO

SADA, An Insight Company

Galstian, who has more than 25 years of experience leading impactful marketing, channel partnerships and alliances and business development teams, currently oversees global branding and marketing initiatives, including corporate communications and public relations, conferences and events, solutions marketing, demand generation and alliances.

Nikki Harley

VP, Partner Ecosystem, Solutions

SADA, An Insight Company

In her role, Harley oversees technology and channel partnerships globally and is responsible for steering strategic initiatives that advance enterprise transformation. Over the past year, she led the development of new outcome-based customer solutions, incorporating Google Cloud Native products, technology partners, professional services and marketplace offerings.

Sandy Hogan

CRO

SADA, An Insight Company

Hogan has 20 years of experience in technology and nearly 30 years of experience in go-to-market leadership roles with a track record of driving growth through a customer-first approach. In her current role, she delivers customer value throughout the entire life cycle, supporting SADA’s customers-for-life mission.

Karen Greer

CEO

Secure Content Technologies

A successful cybersecurity sales leader with 30 years of experience in the industry, Greer has built her career and her company with a unique focus on long-term customer relationships. Her mission and singular focus are to remove the complexities in managing IT security by delivering the best cybersecurity solutions with honesty and integrity.

Kimberly Kuo

AWS Industry Alliance Director

Slalom Consulting

Kuo is an experienced strategic partnerships and channel partner leader with a strong acumen for strategy, business development and go-to-market motions to grow the business. In her current role, Kuo builds relationships with AWS industry business unit teams, field sellers and customers to bring net-new industry solutions to market.

Becky Maday

AWS Industry Alliance Director, Public Sector

Slalom Consulting

Maday in her current role manages Slalom’s strategic partnership with AWS to expand its industry footprint and generate incremental revenue. With more than five years of experience in cloud-based solutions, business development and program management, Maday has a proven track record of delivering value to customers and partners.

Darlene Burke

Director, Application Services, Americas

SoftwareOne

A seasoned and results-driven professional, Burke brings more than 15 years of expertise in team leadership across product, program and project management into her current role. Her robust skill set encompasses leadership, management, software project management, project management and business process improvement.

Beth Ryan

Director, Specialty Software Sales, Security Solutions Architect

SoftwareOne

With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies, Ryan draws on her extensive global background in software, security consulting and business development to deliver strong customer experiences and best process practices that lead to exceptional outcomes for customers.

Megan Moore

Sr. Director, Strategic Programs, Partner Alliances

Sterling

Moore quite literally worked her way up at her current company, climbing from cleaning the building while finishing her undergraduate degree all the way to her current role of managing all channel alliance relationships. Moore built up her skill set in maintaining strong relationships to help grow the business through social media, content creation, graphic design and PR.

Mindy Schweitzer

Sr. Director, Marketing

Sterling

Schweitzer, who has been with Sterling for the past seven years, now supervises a vast marketing team responsible for progressive marketing campaigns, market research, social media, branding, communications and corporate training. Under her leadership, Sterling’s channel team reached new partnership milestones over the last year including growing sales year over year.

Bridget Winders

VP, SLED, Commercial Sales

Sterling

Winders boasts over 25 years of expertise in nurturing top-tier sales teams dedicated to advancing technology solutions for customers. She excels in merging the diverse strengths of her teams to meet customer IT aspirations. In the last year, she shifted the focus of her business unit to prioritize the most impactful IT solutions.

Dawn McCale

Global Director, Sales

Sycomp, A Technology Company

McCale’s skills encompass partner and customer relationship management as well as IT solution-selling. Over the last year, she and her team worked to expand underpenetrated accounts and grow into net-new accounts. She also works closely with the Sycomp’s vendor management team to help the company’s most strategic partners grow.

Catherine Solazzo

Global CMO

Syntax Systems

A seasoned IT executive with 19 years of experience with a proven history of building high- performing teams and transforming organizations into profitable businesses, Solazzo is currently responsible for Syntax’s marketing and communications function globally. She is focused on the reach of the Syntax brand and demand generation globally.

Tanaz Choudhury

President

Tanches Global Management

Choudhury, a passionate leader and serial entrepreneur, believes that collaboration is the key to success. She has more than two decades of experience and expertise in award-winning business processes and alignments, and Tanches delivers IT excellence to its customers in the SMB, commercial, enterprise and SLED verticals.

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Tammy Cooper

CEO, CFO

Technologent

Distinguished channel leader Cooper oversees strategic planning, finance and HR functions for Technologent. She in the past two years presided over an unprecedented growth period for the company, leading it through an expansive period from a 20-employee $25 million startup to its current 300-employee operation pulling in more than $690 million in revenue.

Alma Coronado

CMO

Technologent

Coronado is a top-performing marketing professional with an award-winning track record and more than 20 years of IT marketing industry expertise. During her time at Technologent, she has been instrumental in establishing marketing operations and practices, helping to galvanize and create more fortified synergies internally and externally.

Ciera Cole

CXO

The 20

Cole has been supporting the CEO across both The 20 and its sister company, Roland Technology Group, for more than 10 years and was essential in helping build The 20 from the ground up. In her current role, Cole drives one unified customer experience at the company for retention, growth and satisfaction.

Crystal Conkle

CMO

The 20

With more than two decades of marketing and brand development experience, Conkle leads The 20’s marketing team responsible for the successful integration of modern marketing practices into multi-channel, digitally driven demand creation, lead generation and sales enablement approaches. In the past year, she has strategically led key initiatives in member and customer acquisition, engagement and brand enhancement.

Megan Battaglia

VP, Marketing

ThunderCat Technology

Battaglia maintains partner relationships while executing internal and external marketing activities for ThunderCat Technology. The channel leader mentors and guides her team through a collaborative environment to elicit new ideas and continual growth of each team member, department and overall partner growth.

Jacqueline Duffy

Global Director, Alliances

Unisys

A channel leader of more than 16 years, Duffy is renowned for her exceptional track record. She has played a pivotal role in shaping the channel landscape, particularly through her instrumental role in establishing and launching the Unisys Alliances Referral Partner Program. She is committed to providing unbiased guidance to the channel partner community.

Lisa McLin

Global VP, Channels, Alliances

Unisys

McLin has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry and is known for her expertise in strategy and execution and growing partner relationships, propelling organizational revenue. McLin focuses on a repeatable sales process and methodologies, while owning accountability for profit-generating programs and building alliances and partnership strategies across global market segments.

Wendy Goins

VP, Marketing

Verinext

With two decades of technology marketing experience across partner marketing, field marketing and channel marketing disciplines, Goins is an expert at creating compelling, high-impact programs that drive sales and enhance partner relationships. She currently leads the creation and evolution of the new Verinext brand.

Jackie Groark

VP, Security/CISO

Verinext

Groark infuses her intrapreneurial experience in security operations with decades of IT experience to help customers protect their critical assets, intellectual property and reputation. In the past year, she successfully expanded Verinext’s solution provider security practice, leveraging partnerships with more than 120 vendors.

Sandra Antoun

Director, Sales, Marketing

Vintage IT Services

Antoun, who has been at Vintage IT Services for 14 years, has been a key figure in the company’s growth and success in the managed services and cloud services sector. Under her guidance, the company has significantly increased its customer base and revenue through innovative marketing strategies and strategic partnerships.

Gunjan Bhardwaj

COO

Vista IT Solutions

Entrepreneur Bhardwaj, who founded her award-winning, global MSP in 2008, is passionate and adept with technologies and transforming ideas into innovative solutions with expertise in enterprise solution deployment and management. Over the past year, she drove 26.5 percent sales revenue growth with channel partnerships.

Katie Heyel

VP, Managing Director

World Wide Technology

With more than 25 years of broad experience in selling and managing large-scale enterprise programs to deliver customer value that spans consulting and systems integration, Heyel currently leads WWT’s Solutions Consulting practices to deliver end-to-end market-competitive solutions and drive customer satisfaction.

Laura Kuehner

Area VP, Customer Experience

World Wide Technology

In her current role, Kuehner is focused on driving overall growth and profitability across WWT’s expanding recurring revenue portfolio. She’s busy balancing strategy and execution within a rapidly growing team, while maintaining a strong culture and developing members who are passionate about the business.

Traci Sever

World Wide Technology

Head of Global Security Strategy, Go To Market

Sever leads the efforts to define, build and activate the security go-to-market strategy across WWT’s $20 billion business, interweaving security into every outcome. She productizes and simplifies WWT’s capabilities to enable innovation and her mission is to drive the successful adoption of security solutions.

Bridget Kiser

Director, Customer Success, Inside Sales

XenTegra

Kiser has more than 19 years of experience in the B2B arena and is a dynamic leader known for crafting processes that foster organic teamwork and goal achievement. Over the past year, Kiser created a $10 million pipeline, with $2 million booked, skillfully balancing customer, company and vendor needs.

Clair Knox

Director, Marketing

XenTegra

An adept marketing expert, Knox has been pivotal in propelling XenTegra’s channel business over the past year and excels in understanding and meeting the specific needs of both focused and strategic partners, bolstering key relationships.