Rauline is responsible for IPED channel and alliances industry research, client consulting and training curricula across IT, carrier service provider and operational technology vendors doing cloud and IoT business in the indirect channel. A software industry veteran, Rauline was Oracle's senior vice president, North American alliances and channels where she led the transition from primarily direct sales to a segmented indirect sales model. Prior to Oracle, Rauline served as senior VP of worldwide alliances for BEA Systems. She began her career with fifteen years at the IBM Corporation, selling hardware, software and services ultimately rising to vice president, channel sales & marketing for the Americas Software Group. A native Californian, Rauline holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Irvine and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Stephanie Dismore is vice president and general manager, Americas Channels, at HP Inc. In this role, Dismore is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of HP’s commercial and consumer channel sales in the U.S., spanning distribution, national solution providers, regional VARs, public sector, and SMB partners in the commercial channel, as well as retail partners in consumer electronics, office product super stores, regional retails, e-tail and specialty channels. Dismore is also responsible for overseeing all channel-related partner planning, development and programs for the Americas region.

During her 18-year tenure at HP, Dismore has held a variety of leadership positions in sales, marketing and channel roles. Most recently, she served as vice president and general manager of the Americas commercial channel with primary responsibility for HP’s U.S. commercial channel business and Americas channel partner development and programs. Prior to that, Dismore led the U.S. consumer business where she was responsible for the development of go-to-market sales strategies for HP’s retail and online channels.

Dismore earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration from Messiah College.

As an award-winning ABC News anchor, Elizabeth Vargas has traveled the world covering breaking news stories, reporting in-depth investigations, and conducting newsmaker interviews. She is currently the co-anchor of “20/20” with David Muir. Vargas is also the author of “Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction” released in 2016.

Some recent highlights from “20/20” have been covering Christian refugees escaping ISIS in Iraq, profiling the Angulo Family who were at the center of the award-winning documentary “Wolf Pack,” and interviewing Olympic star Suzy Favor Hamilton about her secret descent into the world of high priced prostitution. Vargas has also reported for a popular series on “20/20” called Searchers about individuals on emotional quests to find long-lost family members. She reported extensively on the Amanda Knox case, the American exchange student accused of murder, from Perugia, Italy and spoke exclusively with the high school boys accused of sexual assault in the Steubenville rape trial.

In 2016, Vargas anchored “20/20” reports on the passing of George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds as well as the breaking news live network coverage of the deadly Orlando nightclub shooting, the ambush in Dallas where five police officers were killed,

the death of pop star Prince and the passing of boxing icon Muhammad Ali.

Vargas also anchored live coverage of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. Her story on the hero NICU nurses of Hurricane Sandy was part of the ABC News’ Peabody Award winning coverage. In 2011 Vargas anchored coverage of the Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. During the historic Iraqi elections in December 2005, she reported extensively for "World News Tonight" from Baghdad. She has interviewed leaders from around the world, including President George W. Bush from the Oval Office in the White House.

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.

Joan Pagano is an international best-selling author of fitness books for women, including Strength Training Exercises for Women, a motivational speaker on health and fitness topics and the owner of Joan Pagano Fitness in New York City.  Former trainer to Jacqueline Onassis and Caroline Kennedy, Joan has specialized in strength training for women since 1988. She is an authority on the benefits of exercise for women's health issues such as menopause, osteoporosis and breast cancer, as well as strength training for all ages.  Joan is certified as Exercise Physiologist by the American College of Sports Medicine and is a member of the National Osteoporosis Ambassadors Leadership Council.

Katy Giffault is celebrating her eighth year with Hasbro, the branded play company that creates and markets some of the world’s best loved brands including NERF, Monopoly, My Little Pony, Transformers and Play-Doh.

Giffault’s role at Hasbro places the consumer at the center of all global design, entertainment, and marketing efforts.  She leads a global team of “insight hunters” that includes specialists in observational research, strategic foresight, and thought leaders who design proprietary research using innovative tools and methodologies to discover, understand, and apply consumer insights to drive global growth.

She is a graduate of University of Rhode Island and received her Master’s degree from Michigan State University. In 2013, she was named by the ANA/Internationalist Magazine as one of Today’s Top 100 Global Marketing Leaders. Giffault began her career at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in the world of cookies with Nabisco, Old Spice and Hanes.  Prior to Hasbro, Giffault led the global Communications team at United Technologies Corp., and introduced texting and digital services to consumers with AT&T Wireless leading the U.S. team.

Giffault has her own in-house focus group of triplet girls and lives with her husband and dogs in Mystic, Conn. She gets inspiration from her teenagers and finds herself in a flow state solving problems when she is sailing with her family in Fisher’s Island Sound, cooking new recipes, or digging up the weeds in her gardens.

Caryn Vincent is a Corporate Trainer and Executive Coach who specializes in small to medium size businesses and entrepreneurs.  Her clients enjoy her natural style and intuitive coaching that gets to the heart of the matter. Caryn was an integral part of Dale Carnegie Training Western CT Team and now part of the New York Center of Excellence Training Team. Since 2008, she has successfully designed and delivered customized corporate solutions.  Her roles also include mentoring and training new trainers.  Before Dale Carnegie, Caryn spent 10 years working in product marketing and training for IBM.

Tiffani is the Global, Customer Growth, Sales and Innovation Evangelist. Her focus will be helping companies reimagine how they can not only grow bigger but grow better with innovative business models and technology. Tiffani considers herself a ‘recovering sales rep’, spending time meeting with sales leaders from some of the largest and most successful sales organizations in the world who are using Salesforce technology, to improve performance and enhance customer experience, in order to uncover best practices and insights which can be shared more broadly. Prior to joining Salesforce, Tiffani was with Gartner as a VP, Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow covering Sales Strategies and Channel Innovation.

Amy has 25+ years of leadership and global sales experience, with a focus on customer value and expertise in business. Her mission is to improve corporate culture with a passion for empowering people toward extraordinary results. In addition to sales strategy and operations, Amy provides transformational, executive coaching services to create an integrated life fueled by positivity and authenticity.

Most recently, Amy served as SVP of Sales Operations for TiVo after being a sales leader across the enterprise technology sector. Prior to TiVo, Amy held Leadership positions at AT&T, Cisco, and Salesforce.com.  

Amy spoke at the 2014 Forrester Research conference, the 2016 and 2017 Apttus Conference, and LinkedIn’s 2016 Sales Connect Conference. In October 2016, Amy was awarded a spot on Hot Topics list of the Top 100 Sales Operations and Enablement leaders.

Wendy Petty is Executive Director, Global Channel Sales, at Verizon Enterprise Solution responsible for building indirect channels that support the overall Channel Strategy.  This includes leveraging Enterprise partners and building a scalable model that will protect our installed customer base and create net new upsell revenue streams, bring new Verizon Enterprise Solution to market and develop partnerships that will create new routes to market for Verizon Enterprise Solutions.  Wendy has 25 years of experience in building startups, channel sales organization in both small startup’s and large enterprise software companies.  She has a number of Channel Awards including being selected as one of the Powerful Women in the Channel, by Everything Channel.  She looks forward to leveraging her leadership and channel experience to build the Verizon Channel.

Deena LaMarque Piquion serves as the vice president and general manager of Tech Data’s Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. She is responsible for the strategic direction and execution of all sales, marketing, and operational functions including the in-country subsidiaries and the Miami Export operations. LaMarque Piquion and her team are dedicated to capturing the end-to-end opportunities that exist for Tech Data’s vendor partners and customers in the region.

LaMarque Piquion began her career in the IT distribution industry with Tech Data, joining as an MBA rotational associate in 2000. She worked under the guidance of the president of Latin America at the time on strategic projects throughout the region. In 2001, she was promoted to manager of operations where she assisted the director of operations on pricing, purchasing, capacity planning and productivity projects throughout the Latin America region. LaMarque Piquion brought Tech Data policies, procedures, tools and culture to the in-country Latin America subsidiaries. In 2006, she moved to the commercial side of the distribution business, managing the Latin America product management team and vendor relationships. In 2011, LaMarque Piquion  was appointed director, marketing for Tech Data’s LA export division, where in addition to managing the LA export marketing team she also served as acting director of sales. In 2016, LaMarque Piquion was appointed vice president, sales and marketing, Latin America Export, and in 2017 her role expanded to include the entire LAC region. 

LaMarque Piquion earned a master’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University with a concentration in international business and finance. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College with a concentration in political science and women’s studies. LaMarque Piquion is a founding member of Tech Data Miami’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, the 2016 recipient of the Florida Diversity Council’s Glass Ceiling Award and a 2017 honoree of CRN’s 100 Women of The Channel List.

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.

Julie Christiansen, Senior Director, Global Channel Marketing, DELL EMC  is responsible for developing Partner Program strategies and partner engagements for Dell EMC. Julie leads a team that drives strategy, design and overall responsibility of launching the new Dell EMC Partner Program. Her team focuses on driving partner loyalty with major focus on Titanium Black Engagement, Partner Advisory Boards, Global Partner Summit and Industry Events. Recently, Julie received the Spirit of Success award for Marketing strategy, Global Partner Summit, Program Launch and FRS execution. Julie has been recognized as one of the VAR business - Power 50 Women of the Channel and has represented EMC in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 as one of CRNs Power 100, Women of the Channel.

Ivy Solowiejczyk has more than 30 years of broad business experience with IBM having held several senior sales and marketing management positions. As vice president of telecommunications, media and entertainment, U.S., Solowiejczyk has geographic revenue, profit and customer satisfaction responsibility for IBM’s business throughout the telecommunications and media & entertainment industries in the U.S. She is a trusted advisor to customers and partners regarding business transformation in the digital era. Prior to that, Solowiejczyk was worldwide director of sales, System P, computer services industry, within IBM Systems Group. In this capacity she was directly responsible for setting IBM’s strategy and growing IBM’s global UNIX market share in the consulting industry. Prior to that, she was business unit executive, entertainment industry, Americas. In that role, Solowiejczyk had geographic revenue and profit responsibility for

IBM’s business throughout the media and entertainment Industry in the Northeast U.S. holds a bachelor degree in Political Science from Barnard College--Columbia University.

On her national debut ‘Bridges,' 20-year-old singer and songwriter Mary Sarah made history by being the youngest artist to record an album of duets with some of country music’s biggest names, on 12 captivating songs.

Amazed by the Texas ingénue’s voice and talent, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Vince Gill, the Oak Ridge Boys, the late Ray Price and others all signed on to sing with Mary Sarah on their most iconic hits. Dolly’s “Jolene,” Willie’s “Crazy” and Merle’s “The Fightin’ Side of Me” are just a few of the songs interpreted by Mary Sarah and her A-list collaborators. Produced by Kent Wells, long time guitarist, producer, and band leader for Dolly Parton, the project was also overseen by executive producer, the late Freddy Powers who helped Mary Sarah assemble her dream team of collaborators.

With glowing reviews from outlets including The Associated Press and The New York Times, Mary Sarah’s most recent national spotlight came through NBC’s The Voice where she finished #5 place competing on #TeamBlake, on Season 10 - 2016.

Following a week of performances and media appearances during CMA Fest and making several “Best Dressed” lists from walking the CMT Music Award"s Pink Carpet, she is back to pen and paper writing for a new project due out in 2017.

Mary Sarah made her Grand Ole Opry debut on May 31, 2016, and looks forward to gracing the iconic stage more frequently in the future.

Denise Lee Yohn is the go-to expert on brand-building for national media outlets, an in-demand speaker and consultant, and an influential writer. Yohn is the author of the bestselling book “What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest” (Jossey-Bass), the e-book “Extraordinary Experiences: What Great Retail and Restaurant Brands Do,” and the highly anticipated new book “Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World's Greatest Companies” (Nicholas Brealey/Hachette Books).

News media including Fox Business TV, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times call on Yohn when they want an expert point-of-view on hot business issues. The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) named her blog as one of the top 20 in the industry.

Yohn  enjoys challenging readers to think differently about brand-building in her regular contributions to Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and has been a sought-after writer for publications including Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Knowledge@Wharton, ChangeThis, Seeking Alpha, QSR Magazine, among others.

With her expertise and personal approach, Yohn has become an in-demand keynote speaker. She has addressed business leaders around the world, including The Art of Marketing in Toronto, EXPO Marketing in Bogota, Colombia, and Sustainable Brands in San Diego.

Yohn initially cultivated her brand-building approaches through several high-level positions in advertising and client-side marketing. She served as lead strategist at advertising agencies for Burger King and Land Rover and as the marketing leader and analyst for Jack in the Box restaurants and Spiegel catalogs. She went on to head Sony Electronic Inc.’s first-ever brand office, where she was the vice president, general manager of brand and strategy and garnered major corporate awards. Consulting clients have included Target, Oakley, Dunkin' Donuts, and other leading companies.

Adriana Trigiani is beloved by millions of readers around the world for her bestselling novels, including her latest, “All the Stars in the Heavens,” the instant bestseller. She wrote the blockbuster “The Shoemaker’s Wife,” the “Big Stone Gap” series, the “Valentine” trilogy and “Lucia, Lucia.”  Trigiani’s themes of love and work, emphasis upon craftsmanship and family life have brought her legions of fans who call themselves Adri-addicts--a term coined by book maven Robin Kall. Their devotion has made Trigiani one of “the reigning queens of women’s fiction” (USA Today).

The New York Times calls her “a comedy writer with a heart of gold”, her books “tiramisu for the soul.” Trigiani wrote and directed the film adaptation of her debut novel Big Stone Gap, produced by the Academy Award winning producer Donna Gigliotti, shot entirely on location in her hometown, with an all-star cast including: Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Anthony LaPaglia and Jenna Elfman.

As President and CEO, Amy Scarlino, is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Scarlino Speaker Strategies LLC. Prior to forming the agency, Scarlino was pesident and CEO of The Catchpole Corp. She held several positions within Catchpole during her more than 13 years with the company, including COO, director of client services, and senior account executive. Scarlino has managed the corporate speaker programs and executive visibility initiatives for VMware, PBS, AOL, Trend Micro, Microsoft, Verizon and The Weather Channel. Earlier in her career, Scarlino was a market manager for Group III Promotions and served as project manager within the brand consultancy, Ashton Brand Group. Scarlino holds a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Marketing from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.  She has spoken at several industry conferences including the CIO Global Forum, AMA Boston College Career Day, PRSA International Conference, the NVCA National Summit, and Babson College’s Net Impact Speaker series.  She serves as a judge for the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and is a founding member and event chair of the Women Advancing (formerly WIMMI) Boston chapter.

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.

Greta Van Susteren is a former anchor at CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She spent more than 14 years at Fox News, having joined the network in January 2002. As the host of the prime-time news and interview program "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" which launched in February 2002. "On the Record" remained all 14 1/2 years as the highest-rated cable news program in its time slot. Van Susteren has interviewed hundreds of prominent individuals including Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-Sen. Barack Obama, Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates as well as many other notable cabinet members, U.S. Senators, members of Congress, governors and spiritual leaders, including Rev. Billy Graham.

She has traveled all over the world to cover international news stories and interview world leaders. Van Susteren has also interviewed prominent figures in the entertainment and sports industries. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Van Susteren received a bachelor's degree with distinction in economics then went on to earn a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law in 1979 and a Master of Law from the school in 1982.

Van Susteren sits on the Board of Directors at the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. She was named

by Forbes Magazine as one of the world's 100 most powerful women five times. She is married to John P. Coale and lives in Washington, D.C.

Ralph Schipani is currently the CEO of Nine West Holdings Inc., a $1.7 billion leading global designer and marketer of branded footwear, jeanswear, women’s apparel and accessories. He is also a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal’s turnaround and restructuring practice, where he specializes in providing restructuring and business advice to troubled companies on financial, operational and strategic business issues.

His background includes various interim management roles across a variety of industries, including retail, wholesale footwear and apparel, consumer products, manufacturing, chemicals and media services. Schipani focuses on the development and evaluation of strategic business plans and the negotiation of recapitalization strategies and refinancing plans. Before joining A&M in 2007, Schipani spent three years in various management positions with Interstate Brands Corp. Previously, he was in the strategy practice at

Accenture. Schipani received a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from Lafayette College.