Haley’s invaluable 20-year career as a business and commercial litigation attorney with a focus on driving public sector initiatives and key lobbying efforts in support of education and sustainable growth across the southern US drive the success of Edge Solutions.  In addition to her experience as a law associate at several top Texas law firms, Haley has committed years of service to key public service positions, including chief lobbyist for the Georgia PTA, Congressman Tom Price’s Citizen Advisory Board, the Fulton County Code Enforcement Board, and other education advocacy and advisory boards.  Haley was named as the North Fulton Small Business Person of the Year in 2011, CRN’s Top 100 Women of the Channel in 2011 through 2014, and a finalist for Women in Technology’s Woman of the Year in 2011.

 

Lisa MacKenzie is a seasoned executive with expertise in marketing, sales, product management and operations. Lisa was instrumental in The Channel Company's evolution from providing traditional media to offering a full portfolio of solutions and services. She brings her proven expertise to The Channel Company's extensive events portfolio - helping ensure that our events meet the evolving needs of our customers. Thanks to Lisa's leadership, The Channel Company attracts record audiences and receives high customer satisfaction scores. Lisa also repositioned our consulting, research and education offerings, resulting in increased profitability and new product launches.

Marie Rourke is recognized for her straightforward, business-minded approach to channel marketing, PR and communications. As the founder of WhiteFox and the voice behind @ChannelPR, Marie is an accomplished and influential PR strategist who knows the ins and outs of the IT channel. Under Marie's leadership, WhiteFox plays an integral, behind-the-scenes role within the sales and marketing teams of high-profile technology companies, emerging and established IT vendors, solution providers and MSPs. Previously, Marie served as the North America spokesperson and lead media strategist for Ingram Micro. Earlier in her career, Marie worked for top PR agencies including Roberts Mealer and Creamer Dickson Basford.

Karyn Schoenbart, author of MOM.B.A., is CEO of The NPD Group, a global provider of information and advisory services to many of the world’s leading brands. She has over 30 years of experience in the market research field, with expertise in identifying and developing new business opportunities and client partnerships.

As Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Clark University (www.clarku.edu), Pennie is responsible for ensuring that Clark's IT resources are aligned with the strategic priorities of the University, and that IT services are reliable, sustainable, easy to use, and cost efficient. To accomplish this task, she works with Clark's faculty, administration, staff and trustees to provide leadership, direction, and overall coordination of all aspects of information technology. This includes administrative and academic information systems, academic and instructional support, high performance computing, media services, technology-enhanced classrooms, videoconferencing and web streaming, web applications development, computing labs, help desk services, networks, systems, and IT/data security policies. She also coordinates University requests for the procurement of IT resources, and is responsible for the management of vendor and partner relationships.

G2 Crowd is the world’s leading business solution review platform. Since joining the organization in 2015, Weissman has played a major role in fueling the growth of the company’s brand, customers and partnerships. Before joining G2 Crowd as CMO, Weissman served as LinkedIn’s director of marketing solutions where she worked with leading enterprise global B2B and B2C brands including Microsoft, Accenture, Ford, Harvard and FedEx to leverage the social networking platform to drive content marketing and advertising programs. Weissman previously served as Google’s senior sales executive, business and team leader, while she helped build Google's search, display and video businesses for close to seven years. Weissman has also been a long-time board member of the Chicago Business Marketing Association.