Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.

Pam Johansen, serves as Sr. Director, Sales Ecosystem for BMC. In this role, she is responsible for global ecosystem programs, operations for VAR, ISD, GOSI, & renewals. Johansen is an innovative senior leader and ecosystem champion acknowledged for her expertise in VARs, distribution, SaaS, OEMs, global outsourcing companies and system integrators. Johansen's achievements in the channel include recognition by the editors of CRN as one of the Power 100: Women of the Channel from 2009–2017 and channel program recognition for the CRN 5-Star Partner Program from 2006-2017.

As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.

Donna joined Future Tech Enterprise, Inc in August of 2017 and is responsible for leading their sales and marketing teams.  She has over 20 years of IT sales and management experience and has joined Future Tech from her most recent role as a Channel National Account Manager for Dell EMC.   During her 10 years at Dell EMC she was recognized as Account Executive of the Year in the public customer segment and received multiple awards as Channel Account Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Donna held sales and management positions for a major Long Island systems integrator where she led many successful public-sector projects for New York City government agencies.  Donna’s “lead by example” management style allows her to build high performance teams that focus on helping customers achieve their goals. Donna is passionate about the opportunities available in the field of technology for women and is actively involved in mentoring both women and students, encouraging them to pursue careers in this fast-growing industry.

Margaret-Ann Bolton serves as Senior Director, Global Partner Marketing at Red Hat and is responsible for marketing programs to grow Red Hat’s OpenSource business through an ecosystem of partners.  She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry encompassing strategic planning, direct and indirect sales, alliance development, worldwide partner and channel marketing and go-to-market execution.

Ms. Bolton joined Red Hat in 2011 as Senior Director of Integrated Field Marketing.  In the five years she has been at Red Hat, she has unified global partner marketing into a high-performing organization delivering marketing and sales programs for Red Hat’s expanding partner ecosystem. Driving 70% of Red Hat's revenue, these partners include ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors and cloud service providers.  Her areas of expertise are OpenSource business models, solutions design and marketing, co-branded demand generation programs and delivering scalable partner programs and tools.  A passionate advocate for partners and OpenSource technologies, Ms. Bolton recently championed the redesign and relaunch of Red Hat's partner portal to  enable a more capable and productive partner ecosystem extending reach and relevancy for Red Hat's complete portfolio.  

Prior to Red Hat Ms. Bolton held executive positions across multiple disciplines including direct and indirect sales, engineering, services, product management, and product marketing with global technology companies including EMC, HP, and Sun Microsystems.  She has been recognized as a CRN Woman of the Channel in 2013, 2014,  and 2015 and as a CRN Channel Chief in 2014, and 2015 which acknowledges top channel leaders for their accomplishments and impact on the technology industry. 

Ms. Bolton earned her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and her masters degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.  She is married with two children and an avid runner and outsdoorsman.

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.

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.

Carolyn Cox joined ServiceNow in October of 2016 and is responsible for leading the Americas field and channel marketing teams. She brings more than 20 years of high-tech channel and marketing experience to her role.  Cox is also tasked with leading the global campaigns team, ensuring tight alignment with the field sales and the business units.

Prior to ServiceNow, Carolyn was vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Bitdefender.  Before that, she led customer acquisition and partner marketing at MobileIron.  She has also held leadership roles at VMWare, SAP and Business Objects after starting her career at HP.

She holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  Carolyn has served on the board for Women of the Channel for the last 4 years.

Christine “Wolffie” Wolff joined Dell Technologies Global OEM and IOT business, helping Future Makers' dreams become reality. Previously at Dimension Data for 15+ years, Wolff was responsible for alliance activity with Cisco at a global corporate level. Her team worked in service to the executive teams at Cisco and Dimension Data facilitating the connections that enable profitable growth and smooth operational engagement. Wolff also held VP-level roles in sales development, solutions marketing, and talent engagement for the Americas team. She likes to spend her free time cycling, golfing, mentoring women in STEM and cheering on the Duke Blue Devils.

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.

Kasia Hanson is currently a Director of Partner Programs in Intel’s Global Markets and Partners Organization. Prior to that she was the Platform and Distribution Sales Director for Intel’s Storage and Memory Products responsible for driving SSD revenue growth and ramping Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD products across the Channel globally.  Kasia joined Intel in 2000 and has 15+ year technology sales and marketing industry experience across Channel and Distribution, Multi-National OEMs, Software and Fortune 500 Enterprise Accounts in Oil and Gas, Entertainment, Retail and Cloud.  Kasia founded the Intel Women’s Channel Network in 2016 to empower female channel partners to deliver significant business impact with expanded connections, skills development and increased representation and support.