More of the Most Powerful Women of the Channel

SOLUTION PROVIDERS

Nikki Beckett
CEO, NSB Group
In a decade, Beckett turned a small retail software business into a $70 million, multifaceted solution provider. She is known for her entrepreneurial courage and foresight.

Himanshu 'Sue' Bhatia
CEO, Rose International
Bhatia has been consistently recognized for her contributions to her local business community and minority- and women-owned businesses, and for the integrity and high standards she brings to the channel community.

Carolyn Boyer
President, Data Management Group
As the company's co-founder, Boyer has built a business-intelligence leader and one of the fastest-growing solution providers in the industry.

Sandra Davis
President & CEO, Applied Computer Solutions
With an unwavering belief in strategic partnerships, Davis built her company into one of the few woman-owned businesses on the VARBusiness 500.

Michelle Fabozzi
CEO, ICP
Delivering high-quality and superior customer service helped Fabozzi overcome the challenges that women-owned businesses face.

Irene FitzSimons
President, Precision Computer Services
Since starting Precision with her husband in 1989, FitzSimons has helped turn the company into a top-tier solution provider. Precision has held a spot on the VARBusiness 500 list for four consecutive years.

Lezlie Gallaway
CEO, Technologent
Gallaway set a goal to make the lives of her employees and their communities better and more rewarding when she and her husband started Technologent.

Patricia Gallup
Chairwoman & CEO, PC Connection
Gallup founded PC Connection in 1982 with $8,000 in personal savings. Today, the company is on the Fortune 1000 for the sixth year running with more than $1 billion in revenue.

Catherine Giordano
President & CEO, Knowledge Information Systems
In the four years since acquiring KIS, Giordano has grown it from a $9 million company to a $27 million company through an aggressive expansion of customers and products.

Sharon Habibi
President, Syscom Technologies
Founding Syscom in 1981, Habibi has built a thriving business based on the core tenets of superior technology, solution vision, accountability and valuable results.

Hope Hayes
Managing Member, Alliance Technology Group
Storage is her specialty, and Hayes helped grow her company 90 percent in 2005 to reach $28 million in revenue.

Joni Kahn
Executive Vice President of Technology Solutions Group, BearingPoint
When BearingPoint targets long-term, high-margin opportunities, it's because Kahn is developing the solutions to help do that.

Susan Kozak
President, MNJ Technologies Direct
Kozak is rated one of the most influential women business owners in Illinois and an innovative woman entrepreneur in the channel community.

Kay Kuba
President & CEO, GCI Systems
Kuba founded GCI in 1988 with the goal of redefining technology product sourcing. She's since built a vibrant IT reseller and services company.

Pamela Lopker
Chairman & President, QAD
Success for Lopker is being a true business partner to QAD's clients, helping them grow their businesses.

Carrie Miles
President, CompuChicks
Within its first six months of business back in 2003, CompuChicks won the Sprint Digital Makeover contest. The company's known for being an aggressive and innovative solution provider.

Ellie Nazemoff
President & CEO, Acolyst
Nazemoff built a government VAR and learned to navigate the complex government bureaucracies to become one of the more innovative public-sector solution providers.

Amy Rao
Founder & CEO, Integrated Archive Systems
In addition to founding a successful storage solution provider, Rao devotes much of her free time to raising awareness of climate change, global warming and environment- friendly work and home habits.

Shirley Singleton
Chairwoman, President & CEO, Edgewater Technology
Creating jobs that expand the business and grow the community is the hallmark of Singleton's success.

Brenda Stallings
President, Matrix Integration
Maintaining responsible growth and attracting many customers and vendors to her company has kept Matrix and Stallings on the road to success.

Patricia Wasp
CEO, Ronco Communications & Electronics
Wasp heads one of the largest woman-owned businesses in Western New York; the VARBusiness 500 company boasts $150 million in revenue and operations that span the Eastern seaboard.

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