Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.

Dee Dee Lear serves as Senior Vice President, Emerging Channels for Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, reporting to President Jeff Bawol, president. In this role, Lear is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, expansion and growth through new routes to market driving incremental revenue and profitability for Avnet and its suppliers. Lear is also responsible for operations in the Latin America and Caribbean region, a strategic and high-growth emerging market. With more than 26 years in the technology industry, Lear brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspective to this role. She has extensive leadership experience in sales, strategy, and business development.

Lisa is the Head of Content Marketing at Intel Security. She is a dynamic marketing executive with nearly 20 years building and optimizing high-performance marketing teams. Successful track record in driving high impact results through effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution; aligning sales, partners and marketing teams through process, automation and shared goals. Obsessed with operational efficiencies, best practices and business impact. Empowering leader who believes in accountability, results and recognition. Passionate about the customer, partner and employee experience through authentic relationships built on integrity.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Schijns is Vice President of Global Verticals and Channel Marketing for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, representing more than 50 countries. She and her team are responsible for understanding vertical and segment technology issues across varying geographies and identifying key enterprise solutions that meet their unique business needs. She also manages the award winning, Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which broadens Verizon’s reach and creates best-in-class solutions through the use of indirect partners.
Schijns previously served as Vice President of Corporate, Medium and Indirect Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for launching VPP to drive innovations in channels of distribution and business products to ensure that the right solutions are delivered via the best channels for the company’s mid-tier customers. Schijns and her team achieved CRN’s 5-Star Award for the program in March 2014.
Schijns joined Verizon in 2010 to apply her extensive experience of linking market needs, business strategy and technology evolutions to the development of market leading solutions. During her tenure as Vice President Business Solutions Group for Verizon Wireless, she and her team deployed a number of industry-leading solutions, evolved Verizon’s B2B Go-to-Market process, enhanced the company’s M2M position, and led B2B strategy for mobile worker empowerment using Verizon’s LTE network. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Schijns was Vice President of Enterprise and Government Business at Motorola. During her tenure at Motorola, she developed Motorola EMS’ 5-Star, award-winning channel strategy and program – PartnerEmpower and drove strategic solutions alignment across channels and drove vertical and segment solutions.
Schijns was previously Founder & CEO of The JS Group, an international consultancy firm focused on providing business-based programs for strategic growth to high-tech companies, large and small. She is the creator of the industry-recognized, award-winning Master-of-Convergence, Partner Expert, and Solutions First programs.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business from Montclair State University, is a member of the Women of the Channel Advisory Board, the Channel Partner Board and a founding member of the Vanguard Council for Channels, as well CRN’s Channel Partner Top Award Winner for the past decade.

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.

Florence Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in marketing at information technology companies. Currently, Florence is focused on generating marketing influenced pipeline to grow revenues with partners as well as enabling them to co-market with HP Inc. Prior to this role, Florence held management positions at Juniper, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Seagate. Florence has degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from U. C. Berkeley.

Jeannine Edwards is the Director of the ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal Community. She develops and manages the company's channel community relationships from both the partner and vendor perspective. With more than twelve years of diversified B2B business development experience in the technology industry, Jeannine has become a well-known figure in the IT Solution Provider channel. Her experience spans vendor program development, research analysis, two tier distribution and partner profitability within the channel community. Jeannine has been recognized on the CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, named in the MSPmentor 250 List, and included in the smb pc magazine SMB150 Power Players.

Martha is a Marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in B2B marketing including developing customer requirements, competitive analysis, product positioning and value propositions that deliver business results. In her current role Martha focuses on assisting IBM’s business partners to deliver effective marketing programs. She also has responsibility for ensuring the channel stays aware of programs and incentives to help drive the IBM business through our many communications channels.

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.

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.