Kim Carlton is a director of Channel Marketing for Intel. She is responsible for the development and execution of the channel sales and marketing strategy.
Kim joined Intel in 2000 in Portland, OR and led a vertical industry marketing team in America’s Marketing Group. In late 2004, she moved to Chicago to take the role of the Global Market Development Manager for Motorola where she was responsible for all sales and marketing aspects of Intel’s global Motorola business and worked with Motorola to develop and launch the first Intel-based phone. Kim then held the role of Strategic Account Manager for targeted embedded customers and was responsible for achieving sales objectives by driving sales strategy and execution at top accounts. She also managed Intel’s External Sales Force calling on customers in the Great Lakes Region.
Prior to joining Intel, Kim worked at the former GTE, now Verizon, in Dallas, TX, where she led a team that managed multiple channels of distribution. Prior to GTE, Kim worked at AT&T Wireless as a Corporate Account Executive where she helped AT&T Wireless launch wireless service in Chicagoland and Target Corporation where she managed Target stores in the mid-west.
Kim obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Retail Management with a concentration on Business Administration. Kim has been an active member of Intel’s WIN (Women at Intel Network) organization. She spent 3 years on the board and chaired the Speaker, Events and Member Action Committee for the organization. She also serves as part of a fundraising committee for The Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Foundation. And, is an active parent volunteer in her school district. Kim currently lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and 3 children.
Michelle Pas is Director of Channel Marketing & Global Programs with RSA, a Dell Technologies business. She has 25 years of experience in channel storage, information security, networking, and the telecommunications industries. Pas leads the strategic vision for channel marketing and programs at RSA. Her channel experience includes working with high tech leaders at Arrow, Safenet, Motorola and Sun Microsystems (StorageTek).
Jessica Yeck serves as vice president of Vendor Solutions, Americas for Tech Data. In this role, she is responsible for the NetApp, Oracle, Veeam and Talari teams’ sales and marketing efforts, strategic direction, and long-term growth in North America, as well as managing Tech Data’s global relationship and initiatives with NetApp, for example, expanding FlexPod® solutions across the channel and Oracle. She joined Tech Data in February 2017 upon the completion of Tech Data’s acquisition of Avnet’s Technology Solutions division.
Previously, Yeck was vice president, strategic sales for Tech Data. In this role, she led a highly effective inside sales organization. Her responsibilities included strategic and financial analysis, development and implementation for the people and processes leveraging Tech Data’s competitive value proposition to achieve specific, focused solutions, products, services and sales objectives. Yeck also developed and nurtured key executive partner relationships in the development and execution of established sales programs, helping partners grow and succeed in the marketplace.
Yeck is a sales leader with over 20 years of industry experience increasing revenues, growing market share, and improving customer satisfaction through strategy development, execution and quota attainment. Prior to her roles with Tech Data, she worked in a variety of areas within Avnet, including the Embedded business, Solutions Marketing and Development, and Strategy. She also led the inside sales, configuration and presales support team for the HPE solutions business within Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas.
Yeck has been acknowledged by organization senior management for exceptional motivation, leadership and people development, and she establishes and promotes high-ROI relationships with partners, suppliers and employees. Based on her achievements and influence in the technology channel, Yeck has been recognized by the editors of CRN as one of the top Women of the Channel in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2018. She also had an active role with Avnet’s ATLAS program, focusing on global strategies and preparing leaders for global assignments.
Dorothy Copeland has over 20 years in technology, with experience in sales, marketing, business development and partner ecosystem leadership. She joined IBM in May 2017 to lead the North America Business Partner organization. She's focused driving partnering innovation and increasing partners’ sales engagement with the IBM field teams. By utilizing IBM’s broad technology, partners can solve any client’s business challenges and build new revenue-generating offerings for customers. Prior to IBM, she led Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Partner Programs, including the AWS Partner Network, AWS Channel Reseller Program, AWS Managed Service Provider Program, and AWS Competency Program. She designed one of the industry’s first cloud infrastructure channel programs, generating significant revenue across thousands of partners. Prior to AWS, she was the VP of Business & Ecosystem Development for the San Francisco-based security start-up, Cloudmark (now owned by Proofpoint). She also held business development and sales roles at a server management provider, Avocent (now owned by Emerson). She started her career in marketing at storage provider, ADIC (now owned by Quantum). Throughout her career, Dorothy has demonstrated a passion for building out new partnerships and programs, and leading diverse and high-performing teams.
Andrea Ayala is Datto’s Channel Engagement Manager, working directly with global vendor partners within the channel to grow their relationships. Over the course of the year, Andrea has managed over 150 world-wide partner events,securing sponsorships and deliverables for all. Andrea is particularly proud of building out Datto’s Developer Integration program and launching a vendor webinar series. With a background in Social Work, Andrea loves meeting new faces and growing strategic partnerships. Outside of her Engagement Manager duties, Andrea loves travelling the world with her husband, eating great food and teaching Zumba.
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.
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.
Leanne Scott-Williams is the Vice President of Services Development. She leads the Service Development initiative for Dimension Data Americas, ensuring market relevant support and managed services are available to craft solutions that meet client needs. Leanne has been with Dimension Data for over 14 years in a variety of roles including Learning and Development, HR Director, Director of M&A, Vice President Cloud Operations, Vice President Strategic Programs, Vice President Managed Services and is now aligned with the Americas Go to Market team.
Prior to joining Dimension Data, Leanne worked for Microsoft for 9 years with a primary focus on Business Development in the Education market in South Africa. Before joining Microsoft, Leanne worked for a Market Research organization as a project manager, research analyst and SAS programmer.
Leanne holds a Bachelors’ degree in Geography from the University of Witwatersrand and additional major in Information Systems from the University of South Africa. She was recognized in 2017 Women of the Channel for her contributions to her industry.
Wendy Hoey is the Director of Distribution and Vendor Alliances at Optiv. Wendy is a dynamic and technically-savvy channel executive leader with demonstrated experience in channel account management, strategic channel marketing, and channel partner development within the IT Security Industry. Exemplary record of delivering and sustaining revenue and profit gains within highly competitive B2B and B2C vertical markets.
Megan has over 20 years of experience building and leading channel sales and marketing initiatives within the IT industry. Currently, Megan is responsible for Pure Storage’s Global Partner Programs. Leading their strategy and efforts to identify, build & execute innovative partner programs in the ever- changing channel landscape.
Prior to this role Megan led global channel marketing for Gigamon, implementing their first partner program, MDF strategy and field marketing initiatives. Before that she spent 5 years running partner programs and enablement for Riverbed which included global communications, partner portal, training and demand gen. Early in career Megan was a quota carrying account manager in both vendor and reseller companies.
Megan is a graduate of Washington State University with a degree in History and Political Science. Her outside the office titles include; wife, sister, mimi to a pack of shorties, favorite human to a pack of Labradors, runner, cyclist, volunteer, & adventurer.
Calista's career started at Tech Data where she spent eight years mostly running the HP Enterprise business where she was leading strategy through sales, engineering, and product management. After leaving Tech Data, Calista joined Vology, a Solution provider/ MSP in the Tampa area as Director of Vendor Strategy and Marketing. For the past four years she has built Vology’s vendor management organization to drive partnership and innovation through their offerings and was also responsible for managing the solution architect team and the Marketing Organization. Calista joined Microsoft as Partner Executive – US Distribution and now the Sr. Partner Development Manager, responsible for the creation and execution of joint Sales strategy and plans as well as insuring a strong partnership to achieve joint success in driving our mutual cloud strategies.
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.
Meredith Scheraldi is the Manager of Strategic Programs for Arrow Electronics, currently overseeing all strategic planning, content, and execution for Arrow’s Enterprise Computing Solutions business area events. Since joining Arrow Electronics, she has successfully implemented a number of strategic measures that have helped the company secure market share and expand Arrow Electronics as a brand. She established a clear cadence of communications across business units and leadership for programs and events. Other roles at Arrow Electronics included business development marketing and field marketing.
Meredith earned her bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Cabrini University and is currently a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP). Before joining Arrow Electronics, she has held several high-profile channel positions and offered her expertise in various capacities. She has lead global teams focused on field and channel marketing, marketing communications, channel marketing promotions, program development, and channel event management. Meredith was named on the “Women of the Channel” list as well as the “Women of the Channel Up and Comers.”
Meredith has more than three decades of experience working with partners, suppliers, and distribution marketing for the creation and management of channel and field marketing strategies, programs, and events. She has also held leadership roles at Symantec, Imperva, and VERITAS, where she was responsible for managing channel programs and events.
Through the years, Meredith has earned a reputation for delivering unparalleled excellence covering areas including marketing strategy, program development, communications, and execution. Meredith lives in Florida with her husband and daughter.
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.
Tina is responsible for the office of the CIO (OCIO). This is cross-functional and cuts across the enterprise globally and includes strategy, governance, portfolio management, IT marketing and communications, Enterprise Architecture, Innovation and Change Management. She is responsible to enable a consistent and strategic approach to digitalization across the enterprise, while ensuring that the IT organization has the capabilities to be a key player in digital business transformation. In addition to the OCIO responsibilities, Tina is the IT Executive who oversees the Enterprise Data Platforms and is the senior executive responsible for value creation from the use of the organization's internal data assets, as well as the external data ecosystem. This includes value creation through envisioning data enabled strategies as well as enabling enterprise business goals through data and analytics, governance, enterprise information policies, and regulatory, legal and ethical compliance. Tina is accountable for selection and implementation of all analytics platforms, applications and technologies. Tina serves as a member of the Corporate IT Leadership governance body and facilitates the corporate governance processes within the IT Architecture, Portfolio Planning, Enterprise Information Management, Vendor Management and Continuous Improvement organization in accordance with Amway’s strategic initiatives. She establishes and maintains relationships across all 4 regions globally, to ensure effective execution. Collaborates with the Corporate & Regional Executive Staff and Global IT leaders as needed to carry out assigned responsibilities. Tina holds a BA in Computer Information Systems from Aquinas College. She holds membership seats on Inforum and Amway’s Women’s Inclusion Network as an advocate of advancing diversity in technology.
Natalie is passionate about helping people visualize and achieve their personal and professional goals, leading them to realize their purpose and potential and put it into action. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and son. Follow Natalie on Instagram @nataliee_wellness.
Internationally acclaimed innovation expert Val Wright was named as one of the top 50 resources for Chief Operating Officers by ClickSoftware. She is one of only 64 experts inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame.
The global clients who have requested her help include Starbucks, LinkedIn, Amazon, Microsoft, Financial Times, Seagate, Gartner, and the LA Lakers. Wright’s corporate experience includes tenures during dramatic growth periods at Amazon, BMW, Microsoft, Harrods, and Xbox.
Wright participated on the small team that created the fastest-selling device of all time, Kinect for Xbox, which won a Guinness Book of World Record, selling over 20 million devices. This contributed to the turnaround of Microsoft’s entertainment business from a billion-dollar loss to a multimillion-dollar profit machine.
Her unique approach, which she has trademarked as Thoughtfully Ruthless®, has produced typical client results of market domination in extraordinarily short time frames along with compassionate truth telling, fearlessness, and extensive creative, technical, and leadership gains.
Wright’s books include: Thoughtfully Ruthless: The Key to Exponential Growth (Wiley, 2016) named best business book by Independent Press Awards and NYC Big Book Awards, and The Innovation Trifecta: How to Catapult Innovation by Creating a Symbiotic Relationship between Creative, Business, and Technical Teams. She is a regular contributor on CNBC, Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Reuters, LA Times, MSN, and Today.
Originally from England, Wright now lives in California with her three daughters and husband.
Bobbi Brown is a beauty industry titan, world renowned makeup artist, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and serial entrepreneur. As a professional makeup artist, Brown created 10 simple lipsticks that evolved into a global beauty empire. She has written nine beauty and wellness books and has launched Beauty Evolution LLC since leaving eponymously named Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in October 2016.
At a time when stark contours and shiny red lips were in fashion, Brown designed cosmetics to highlight a woman’s natural look, and introduced Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1991. This line of color cosmetics revolutionized the industry. The original brown-based lipstick shades offered a simple, edited way for all women to embrace and highlight their lips. Other groundbreaking products soon followed. Brown's philosophy is straightforward: "Women want to look and feel like themselves, only prettier and more confident."
In 1995, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics was acquired by The Estée Lauder Companies, where Brown served as chief creative officer, building a billion-dollar brand. Unwilling to rest on her laurels, Brown has returned to her roots as an entrepreneur. Her latest endeavor is EVOLUTION_18, a line of lifestyle-inspired wellness products that launched in the Spring of 2018. Another, justBobbi.com, also launching this spring, is a platform for Brown to share many of her life inspirations. In addition, The George, a 32-room design inspired, boutique hotel, in Montclair, N.J., lovingly reimagined by Brown and her husband, Steven Plofker, recently opened.
Brown’s gift for translating trends into real-life applications has made her a sought-after expert on television, in magazines and newspapers, and online. Brown’s message resonates with diverse audiences, she is the Beauty & Lifestyle Editor of Elvis Duran and The Morning Show, author to nine books, many of them New York Times bestsellers, and she continues to work editorially, penning columns for Charlotte’s Book, Purewow, and Naturally, Danny Seo.
Born in Chicago and a graduate of Emerson College, Brown’s entrepreneurial impact extends beyond fashion and beauty. She has received the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, The Fashion Group International Night of Stars Beauty Award, and The Jackie Robinson Foundation’s ROBIE Humanitarian Award, to name a few. She was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation and has been inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. She also holds honorary doctorates from Montclair State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Monmouth University, and Emerson College.
Linda Clemons is the CEO of Sisterpreneur ®Inc. Linda is an award-winning record setting sales producer as well as one of the top sales trainers in the world in the resort/timeshare industry where clients have generated over two billion in sales. She is also a Body Language Expert, trained and certified in Analytic Interviewing and Statement Analysis ™, a process used to detect deception.
Her clients and audiences include Southwest Airlines, National Urban League, Nestle, MGM, Major League Baseball, Wells Fargo, Leo Burnett Worldwide, US Customs, FBI, Marriott, Hilton, Wyndham and Starwood. Her client list includes celebrities, executives, politicians and entrepreneurs.
Linda has opened for, or shared the stage, with such notables as Oprah Winfrey, President Obama, Steve Wozniak; co-founder of Apple, Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Mary Jo White SEC Chair.
Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway, a company that is disrupting the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by building the closet in the cloud and powering women to feel their best every day. Recently valued at $1B, Rent the Runway is one of the few female-founded, female-led companies in history to reach this milestone.
In her role, she sets the strategic priorities and leads the company in growing all areas of the business, including marketing, technology, merchandising, supply chain and data science. She co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009, and has since raised over $525 million in capital, growing the business to over 11 million members, 1,800 employees (93% female and minority) and 600+ designer partnerships. Jennifer is a mission-driven leader and as the CEO, has built Rent the Runway from an idea into a profitable, high-growth company and one of the most beloved brands in the U.S.
In 2015, Jennifer Co-Founded the Rent the Runway Foundation to help female entrepreneurs throughout the U.S. build scalable, high-growth companies. She has since mentored thousands of female-founded companies providing them with the tools and networks they need to accelerate. She is an investor in and advisor to a diverse group of startups throughout the U.S. and is passionate about diversifying entrepreneurship. Jennifer’s proudest accomplishment has been to equalize benefits for her salaried and hourly workers and to become a national advocate of business leaders' responsibility to become moral leaders.
Jennifer has been honored with recognitions like the Forbes “12 Most Disruptive Names in Business”, Fortune’s “Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs”, “Trailblazers”, “40 under 40”, Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” and the Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation” award. Under her leadership, Rent the Runway has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times. Serving as Rent the Runway’s spokesperson, Jennifer is a frequent guest on television, regular lecturer at universities and business schools nationwide, and speaker at major industry events with a particular passion for female entrepreneurship and workplace equality.
Prior to Rent the Runway, Jennifer was the Director of Business Development at IMG where she focused on the creation of new media businesses for IMG's Fashion Division. She also ran the advertising sales team at WeddingChannel.com and was an in-house entrepreneur at Starwood Hotels, creating Starwood’s first wedding business, which was recognized on the Oprah Winfrey Show for its innovation.
Ms. Hyman serves on the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies and on the Women.nyc Advisory Board, the pioneering initiative to keep New York the greatest city in the world for women. She received her BA from Harvard University cum laude and MBA from Harvard Business School and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter Aurora.
Stephanie Mitchko-Beale is a media, technology, and advanced advertising pioneer with a solid record of developing and launching industry-changing products for more than 20 years. She has garnered several top industry awards and acknowledgements throughout her career, including Emmy Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. MediaWorks is a family of global media and advertising companies, including Cadent, one2one Media and TCA, focused on advancing the TV and advertising marketplace.
As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Cross MediaWorks Mitchko-Beale provides day-to-day leadership to the engineering and operations teams in the development and execution of strategic initiatives. She is responsible for the delivery of cutting edge technology solutions and the design of stream-lined, standardized processes to ensure continued scalability of CMW’s products and services. Mitchko-Beale, with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University in New York, teaches as a guest lecturer at NYU/Stern Graduate School and is a member of the NYU Poly Enterprise Learning Board.
Leadership: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
Women from across the IT channel—no matter what stage of their career—find themselves in the throes of sweeping industry, business and cultural change. Now is the time when everyone must lead to their fullest potential whether they are individual contributors or managers of large diverse teams. Everyone has a voice that must be heard. For these reasons, inclusion and gender diversity initiatives are pertinent business imperatives designed to bring together teams rich in talent and different points of view.
Announcing the Women of the Channel Leadership Summit East’s 2019 Channel@Work Charity Partner ─ Willow International
Channel@Work is the charitable arm of The Channel Company, producer of the Women of the Channel Leadership Summits. The Channel@Work initiatives are designed to bring the IT community and The Channel Company employees together to give back to the people and the organizations that are in need of assistance, locally and across the globe.
Willow’s mission is to eradicate human trafficking starting at the root of the problem. Through survivor care, government reform, and global partnerships, this plague can be erased and hope can be restored to the millions of victims around the world. By supporting Willow, you are supporting freedom and justice for survivors, and hope for a trafficking-free future. – https://www.willowinternational.org/about/
All proceeds from this year’s WOTC East Raffle for a Cause, featuring fabulous prizes donated by the Summit's sponsors, will benefit Willow International. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.
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