Women Of The Channel 2026: Power 80 Solution Providers
As part of the 2026 Women of the Channel, CRN is highlighting 80 women at solution provider organizations whose insight and influence in their respective companies help drive channel success.
CRN's Women of the Channel list is an annual honoring of the impressive accomplishments of women within the channel.
The Solution Provider Power 80, which accompanies the longstanding Women of the Channel Power 100, highlights a select group of 80 executives at solution provider organizations who are bringing their insight, influence and experience to their respective companies to help drive channel success, building strong relationships with their technology vendors and prioritizing the best possible customer experiences.
Here are the honorees named to the 2026 Solution Provider Power 80. For more Women of the Channel coverage, check out the Power 100 list honoring select vendor and distribution executives or the full database on CRN.com.
(By company name)
Kandyce Tripp
Managing Director, Global Business Group Lead, Accenture Ecosystem Partner Accenture Cybersecurity
Tripp hired strategic ecosystem talent to accelerate an alliances organization, prioritized key AI-driven partnerships, invested in strategic initiatives for market visibility and focused on accelerating business growth, contributing to the $7.9 billion-plus annual alliances sales target within the ecosystem.
(By company name)
Meg Smith
VP, Strategic Security Alliances
Ahead
Smith owned Ahead's outward relationship with all security vendors, fostering new relationships and enhancing existing ones. She has worked with her peers to hire, build, lead and support the company’s growing security business. Smith also helped implement the first overlay model internal selling motion at Ahead.
Julie Talbot-Hubbard
VP, Security
Ahead
Talbot-Hubbard has played a key role in shaping Ahead’s channel strategy for cybersecurity and data protection partners. Her focus has been on aligning core delivery capabilities with partner solutions, setting joint growth targets, and executing sales campaigns, events and initiatives to support continued year-over-year growth.
Susannah Warfield
VP, Financial Consulting
Ahead
Over the year, Warfield has been key to having the financial consulting team use robust financial analytics to surface savings, rebalance IT spend, and align financial, technical and operational priorities—accelerating client strategies, driving net-new and expansion spend through the channel, and elevating Ahead and partners as investment advisers to client CIOs and CFOs.
Daniella Lundsberg
VP, Marketing
American Digital
Lundsberg strengthened strategic partnerships with Nvidia and Juniper, aligning closely with American Digital's executive team to champion these solutions for clients. Her focus on brand visibility and partner-led strategy supported a landmark growth year, including American Digital's recognition as HPE North America Solution Provider of the Year.
Linda Ford
VP, Marketing
Arctiq
Over the past year, Ford helped guide teams in designing customer and partner experiences that engage and educate. Together, they built a new messaging framework, collaborated closely with partners on go-to-market planning, and advanced how emerging technologies are positioned and activated across the channel to drive relevance and momentum.
Amanda Parsons
VP, Strategic Partnerships, Alliances
Arctiq
Parsons and her team and have streamlined partner strategies, driven joint growth with key vendors and improved operational efficiencies. Through sales, enablement and marketing alignment, she boosted engagement and visibility with Arctiq’s focus partners and elevated the company’s brand by building trust within the channel community.
Maryann Pagano
CEO
BlackHawk Data
Pagano has invested deeply in herself as a leader, working with a CEO coach to strengthen her confidence, clarity and ability to lead from the front. She stepped fully into her role, understanding that it’s her responsibility to steer the ship. She hired the right people, and built the right structure around her. She also created a true CX and EX program, clarified offerings, and defined a 2026 mission the entire organization can rally behind.
Coleen Greco
CMO
Blue Mantis
Greco has transformed Blue Mantis’ marketing into a high-powered engine by improving lead conversion by 141 percent. She also developed the company’s first Women's Resource Group, a platform that creates a safe, empowering and inspiring space for women to learn, grow and develop through programs and mentorship.
Alison Rossi
VP, Go To Market Strategy
Bluum
Rossi led Bluum's channel strategy refinement, aligning key vendor partnerships with the company’s 2026 go-to-market priorities. She played a central role in the partner optimization process, enhancing terms, streamlining co-marketing efforts and supporting the shift to outcome-based solution design. Her efforts improved partner clarity and internal enablement across teams.
Zeina Ammar
SVP, Public Education
C1
Ammar focused on strengthening executive-level channel partnerships within the public sector by deepening trust, driving strategic alignment, and creating repeatable, outcome-driven collaboration models. She was honored with the CITE Technology Partner of the Year Award and remained committed to mentoring and elevating women across the channel ecosystem.
Valerie Corniello
SVP, Strategic Sales Operations
C1
Over the past year, Corniello helped strengthen C1’s channel business and execution by improving how sales operations, partners and client teams work together. Her focus on enabling partner-led opportunities, streamlining sales processes and modernizing infrastructure and platforms helped partners move faster, reduce friction and deliver clearer customer outcomes.
Leigh Juul
CRO
C1
Juul has continued building out C1’s next phase of growth by aligning the company’s sales strategy, partners and teams around outcomes that matter most to clients—modernizing infrastructure, security and communications. Looking ahead, her priority is scaling disciplined execution and strong partnerships to drive measurable outcomes and long-term success.
Ann Carpenter
CMO
Caylent
Carpenter negotiated Caylent’s first-of-its-kind Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services focused on industry solutions, worked closely with AWS executives to pilot and deploy new funding programs to field sellers, and championed over 100 customer co-sell events with AWS.
Val Henderson
CEO
Caylent
Henderson has turned AI strategy into measurable customer outcomes at Caylent. Over the past year, she strengthened AWS executive alignment, championed co-selling success and sponsored key partner-led accounts—driving faster modernization, deeper customer trust and sustained value through AWS.
Julianne Zuber
VP, Chief Cloud Alliances, Channels
CDW
Zuber built and scaled co-sell routes to market with CDW’s key hyperscalers, driving 98 percent year-over-year partner-led growth and 143 percent year-over-year referral-led growth. She also is responsible for scaling CDW’s cloud channel and alliance strategy, including launching a scalable annual recurring revenue-led and consumption-based channel motion— accelerating AWS Marketplace repeatable co-sell execution.
Anna Philbrick
VP, Client Experience
Connection
Over the past year, Philbrick led the redesign of internal processes and automation to align operations with OEM and partner requirements. By bridging cross-functional teams and removing operational friction, she enabled scalable support for complex solutions and delivered a more consistent, efficient channel experience.
Lisa Reid
VP, SLED Named Accounts, Business Development
Connection
Reid expanded SLED channel partnerships by on-boarding Apple BDMs, driving joint professional learning initiatives with Microsoft and Google, and securing strategic agreements that increased solution sales. She also led enablement programs for named accounts, resulting in stronger partner engagement and measurable revenue growth across key education segments.
Liz Costerisan
CRO
ConRes
Costerisan drove strategic partnerships, launched innovative marketing initiatives and championed diversity while accelerating revenue growth through end-to-end managed solution offerings and recurring revenue portfolios, including cloud, SaaS and security offerings. She also delivered real-world AI projects, enabling customers to implement production-ready use cases that improved efficiency, insight and measurable business outcomes.
Megan Ruszkowski
VP, Marketing, Sales Development
CoreSite
Ruszkowski evolved and optimized CoreSite’s channel program by expanding and diversifying the partner ecosystem, directly contributing to increased channel-sourced revenue. She also led the launch of the digital Data Center Knowledge Base, driving measurable growth in channel-generated leads and earning strong, positive feedback from partners.
Kailynn Lambert
VP, Operations
Davenport Group
Lambert led six releases and three major project launches, redesigned Salesforce for scalability and centralized quoting processes. She also supported her team while keeping goals on track, ensuring operational efficiency and long-term growth for Davenport Group’s channel business.
Kristy Wilke
VP, Sales
Davenport Group
Over the past year, Wilke implemented a new comprehensive sales travel schedule, ensuring regular in-person touchpoints with partners, customers and sales team members across the country. This approach strengthened relationships and enabled her to address challenges and opportunities directly, significantly contributing to Davenport Group’s channel growth and customer satisfaction.
Melissa Bryant
President
DP Solutions
Bryant drove strategic initiatives including the rollout of DP Solutions’ Security Plus managed cybersecurity offering for all clients. She also led the company’s AI committee to implement automated ticket workflows, improving efficiency and collaboration. These efforts advanced process improvements that strengthened partnerships and positioned DP Solutions as a trusted channel leader.
Belle Conant
VP, Services Delivery Operations
e360
Over the past year, Conant advanced e360’s channel strategy by strengthening workforce alignment to strategic vendors, expanding AI-enabled skills tracking, and maturing services operations to ensure delivery readiness, consistency and scalability—directly improving partner confidence, client outcomes and workforce engagement.
Laura Peters
VP, Strategic Client Relations
e360
Peters’ accomplishments include collaborating with channel partners to deliver solutions and services, many for over 25 years. She also has closed major deals and built trusting relationships with partners and clients and has played a key role in strengthening e360’s channel business by deepening strategic partnerships with Google, Microsoft and Omnissa in the health-care sector.
Samantha Vince
VP, Sales Operations, Alliances
Edge Solutions
Over the last year, Vince led channel strategy and execution to better support Edge Solutions’ sales team by strengthening partner alignment, clarifying joint plays and improving internal coordination. She also streamlined vendor and distribution processes, strengthened partner engagement, and drove customer events that helped translate relationships into pipeline and customer outcomes.
Rita Barry
Director, Alliances
Ensono
Barry led all audits securing Azure Expert MSP and AWS MSP designations, positioning Ensono as a trusted partner. She also negotiated hyperscaler incentives and optimized programs to increase margins as well as drove strategic alignment that earned priority partner status with Microsoft Consulting teams—advancing Ensono’s channel influence and accelerating partner-led growth.
Robin Uhl
Director, Partner, Alliances
Ensono
In 2025, Uhl led the channels and alliances team to leverage Ensono’s partner ecosystem to attain four out of the six largest deals won that year. She also refined the partner strategy to better align with Ensono’s evolving business, executing plans to increase partner sales across the business.
Karen Penticost
VP, Client Success, Channel Strategy
Envision Technology Advisors
Over the past year, Penticost strengthened Envision’s channel ecosystem by expanding strategic partnerships, enhancing partner engagement and driving measurable growth across partner alliances. She also led initiatives that deepened collaboration with key vendors, improved operational alignment and increased overall channel-driven revenue.
Deanna Davenport
VP, Customer Experience
ePlus Technology
Over the past year, Davenport helped deepen ePlus’ strategic relevance in the channel by building and scaling a software adoption services motion that together with the company’s channel partners can be confidently taken to market and leveraged to accelerate time-to-value for customers with major software purchases.
Stacie Johnston
VP, Business Executive
FIS
Johnston’s key channel-related accomplishments included meeting financial targets while maintaining and improving client Net Promoter Scores, identifying and implementing efficiency where possible using AI and automation, and zeroing in on growth within the financial services industry. She also focused on strengthening a positive culture through celebrating small and big wins with an emphasis on mentorship.
(By company name)
Nicole Brown
CEO
FSET
Brown leads FSET’s vertical strategy, personally cultivating partnerships with security-focused vendors to deliver compliance-ready solutions for law enforcement and health care. She championed ISO 27001 certification, differentiating FSET in competitive channel programs. In addition, Brown implemented workplace innovations that strengthened FSET’s ability to recruit and retain channel-certified technical talent in rural markets.
Mary Catherine Wilson
CMO
Future Tech
Wilson translated complex technology solutions into clear, customer-focused messaging that elevated market understanding and strengthened collaboration. These efforts improved the effectiveness of channel-led customer engagements, while her participation on advisory boards allowed her to advise channel program owners and marketers across the ecosystem.
Rachel Haag
CMO
GuidePoint Security
Haag matured GuidePoint Security’s channel marketing strategy by aligning brand, demand and partner programs, operationalizing consistent execution across teams and strengthening measurement. Her focus was on building scalable processes and clear priorities that enabled partners to engage more effectively and deliver pipeline impact.
Tristan Tarpinian
VP, National Alliances
GuidePoint Security
Tarpinian led a strategic reorganization of GuidePoint Security’s vendor-facing teams, strengthened partner engagement models, and built a high-performing alliance organization through targeted external hires and internal promotions. She focused on improving alignment, scalability and consistency across the channel.
Brenda Hudson
SVP, Commercial Sales, Sales Enablement
Insight Enterprises
Hudson has advanced Insight’s channel business by institutionalizing a “Partner-First” commercial strategy that balances aggressive growth with a collaborative culture. By championing a shift toward unified, consultative selling engagements, she led the commercial team to exceed 2025 revenue and profit targets. This success was driven by a disciplined focus on optimizing the partner mix and increasing deal registration participation, which strengthened transparency and protected partner margins.
Hilary Kerner
CMO
Insight Enterprises
Kerner has led the way to do more bespoke marketing with Insight’s partners. She has found that success is the result of coming together at the planning stage, carefully considering business objectives, and creating something custom-made to meet them.
Shelliy Cymbalski
CMO
iT1
In 2025, iT1’s sales, services and marketing teams launched a go-to-market plan to align initiatives, time to market and key goals. The initiative gave Cymbalski the opportunity to drive campaigns and partner alliances that resulted in a year of strong growth for the company.
Kelly Nuckolls
CMO
Jeskell Systems
Nuckolls strengthened Jeskell’s channel strategy by deepening partnerships with IBM, HPE, Dell Technologies and Cobalt Iron and aligning joint go-to-market efforts. She guided teams through a year of shifting federal priorities, advanced integrated marketing programs, and increased collaboration across partners to support sustained growth and client confidence.
Deborah Nevin
VP, Global Strategic Alliances
Kyndryl
Nevin created and deployed education and enablement globally around OEMs and the value of working with the power of the ecosystem. This included different options for getting into larger services opportunities with Kyndryl’s alliances and partners. This space grew double digits in the first half of the fiscal year and has built an over 30 percent increase in pipeline.
Andrea Marin
CFO
Logicalis US
Marin led Logicalis US’ AI go-to-market strategy by partnering with key OEMs, including sister company Kumulus, to deliver essential solutions for customers. Crystallizing these offerings into clear, repeatable solutions created multiple new opportunities and became a key differentiator in companywide efforts.
(By company name)
Jessica Soqui
SVP, Services
Logicalis US
Soqui has helped to drive a modernization journey that continues to empower employees and enhance the customer experience. By uniting service teams, breaking silos and evolving delivery practices, she has fostered collaboration and adaptability, creating a foundation for continuous improvement and long-term value for customers and employees alike.
Cara Parfitt
VP, Technology Alliances
Logically
Parfitt focused heavily on expanding impactful programs with Logically partners who showed the highest intent and readiness for broad alignment and investment. Through this “deep not wide” focus, she was able to increase rebate impact by 9 percent and parter-sourced pipeline by 10 percent.
Sarah Morreau
SVP, Strategic Alliances
Long View Systems
Over the past year, Morreau led strategic alliances and the resale business that expanded Long View’s channel reach, drove double-digit growth and fostered inclusive innovation. Her efforts resulted in increased partner engagement, on-boarding of net-new partners and numerous awards and accolades from the partner community.
Kim Russell
CFO
MDSi
Russell helped MDSi reach new levels of capability this year by orchestrating its acquisition by Korea Zinc subsidiary PedalPoint. She touched the project on a daily basis, working with her own team as well as teams from the other two entities to provide the financial documentation needed to take this initiative from a good idea to a closed deal. After the deal closed, it meant integrating systems and processes, tracking progress, and reporting on the combined entity's actual results compared with original goals.
Tracey Hayes
SVP, Sales
MicroAge
Hayes focused on building strong channel-partner relationships and keeping communication open. These connections with associates, clients and partners drive shared satisfaction and success. She also regularly attends executive conferences with MicroAge’s manufacturing and distribution partners to support strategic planning and deepen partnerships.
Samara Halterman
CMO
Myriad360
Halterman established Myriad360’s first integrated marketing operating model, aligning field, partner and seller motions under a unified go-to-market strategy. She also built the foundational capabilities—brand, digital, enablement and operating discipline—required to support national scale today and global expansion ahead.
Tanya Steele
Chief Experience Officer
Myriad360
Over the past year, Steele led over 200 percent growth in professional services while maintaining strong client Net Promoter Score results. She also also drove operational excellence through automation, tooling modernization and process standardization, strengthening Myriad360’s ability to scale and deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes for channel partners.
Jennifer Roy
CEO
Nucleus Networks
Roy strengthened the channel through her community leadership, industry advocacy and commitment to developing others. She shaped MSP best practices as co-chair of the Global Technology Industry Association’s MSP Interest Group, mentored female leaders through GTIA’s mentorship program, contributed to broader industry initiatives, and joined the GTIA Board in 2026, expanding her community impact.
Natasha Beckley
SVP, Go-To-Market
Optiv
Beckley stood up a new go-to-market team and led the alignment of strategic priorities, tying how partners, services and campaigns converge around opportunity. She also created and launched a new lead-generation framework with a redesigned team focused on the highest-value growth areas.
Jennifer Zientek
Field CTO
Optiv + Clearshark
Zientek supported Optiv + Clearshark’s channel growth by identifying and helping to on-board new partner companies that enhanced and complemented its current partner portfolio. By identifying emerging technologies and building strategic relationships, she helped broaden offerings while reinforcing the value and strengths of established key partners.
Kelly Sutton
VP, Business Development
Peak UpTime
Over the past year, Sutton concentrated on reshaping Peak UpTime’s strategic partnerships to identify the vendors and market segments best positioned to drive stronger revenue growth. In 2025 she also was able to increase revenue by expanding the portfolio to include AI/managed AI services and compliance services.
(By company name)
Amy Williams
Owner, CEO
PIER Group
Over the past year, Williams strengthened PIER Group’s channel efforts by being a steady, supportive presence for partners and the team. Under her leadership, the company has expanded its team, broadened its reach and strengthened its presence in the channel, driving meaningful growth for both the company and partners.
Felise Katz
President, CEO
PKA Technologies
This past year Katz had a maniacal focus on finding new solutions and relationships to enable the continued revenue and gross profit growth of PKA Technologies. She also developed new incentives and targets for the company to pursue new logos while sustaining and growing existing customer accounts.
Cyndi Barrera
Sr. Sales VP, SLED Digital
Presidio
Barrera drove Presidio’s West region to its highest-performing year to date by strategically elevating the Cisco partnership. This included significantly advancing executive alignment, joint go-to-market leadership and disciplined channel execution. The result was accelerated pipeline growth, stronger partner trust and outsized regional performance.
Karen Pfeifer
Field Chief AI Officer
Pythian
Pfeifer pioneered Pythian’s “AI-Readiness Framework,” a strategic program designed to help channel partners assess and prepare client data estates for GenAI. By aligning Pythian’s technical road map with partner sales motions, she has enabled the ecosystem to transition from traditional infrastructure conversations to high-value AI advisory services.
Vanessa Simmons
SVP, Business Development
Pythian
Simmons pivoted Pythian's channel strategy to aggressively target the intersection of AI and multi-cloud modernization. This included the development of offerings for AI-related services to align delivery models with evolving funding mechanisms. This hands-on work unlocked six-figure funding opportunities that would have otherwise been inaccessible.
JuliAn Coy
Principal Partner
RSM
As one of the partners responsible for RSM’s Microsoft relationship, Coy helped execute so that RSM was once again honored as a Microsoft Inner Circle partner, alongside being a Frontier Firm. The company has been recognized as a high-performing Microsoft partner achieving the highest non-recurring cloud business application revenue.
Regina Manfredi
President, North America
SoftwareOne
Manfredi's leadership has been instrumental in shaping a scalable, future-ready strategy for SoftwareOne North America as a partner-first, customer-focused and future-ready business partner for customers and channel partners. She brings clarity, conviction and integrity to complex decisions, enabling teams to execute boldly while staying aligned to long-term business objectives.
Melissa Mulholland
Co-CEO
SoftwareOne
Over the past year, Mulholland guided SoftwareOne’s global channel direction during a period of significant transformation. She focused on protecting partner trust, strengthening strategic vendor relationships, and aligning leadership teams around a unified, partner-first experience across all regions.
Roli Points
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Sourcepass
Points led a channel-first strategy generating 60 percent of revenue and 150 percent to plan, with 75 percent of pipeline from new partners. She also built and led the channel team, cultivated executive partner relationships, aligned internal leaders, and advanced industry leadership through speaking and community building.
Megan Moore
VP, Partner Management, Marketing
Sterling
Moore has led Sterling’s channel team to many new partnership milestones this year including growing sales year over year, identifying and growing new and existing strategic partner relationships, and utilizing millions of marketing development funding toward activities growing the business and partnerships.
Bridget Winders
VP, Sales, SLED, Commercial
Sterling
2025 brought headwinds, including budget challenges and the trickle-down effect of the federal government shutdown. Despite these factors, Winders and her team built a strong foundation that enabled record results. This reflects her disciplined focus on understanding customer priorities and delivering the right solutions to achieve key objectives.
Gina Daniel-Lee
VP, Strategic Alliances, Partnerships
Stratix
Daniel-Lee expanded Stratix’s white-label and sell-through initiatives with global service partnerships with Jeppesen/Boeing and Oracle, plus expansion of in-country support partners. She also led the redesign and launch of a new barcode verifier and collaborated with carrier leadership teams to deliver subsidy and rebate programs through the channel and OEMs.
Elizabeth Klingseisen
SVP, Marketing
Stratix
Klingseisen strengthened partner alignment through a focused marketing strategy, expanded joint go-to-market plans with five new partners and grew MDF funding by 5 percent year over year. She also launched the 2025 Stratix SKO & EXPO, a two-day partner engagement event that deepened field collaboration and accelerated joint pipeline growth.
Leilani Boduch
Director, Global Sales
Sycomp A Technology Company
Boduch defined and executed global channel strategies, specifically throughout strategic growth markets that strengthened executive trust, standardized multi-region delivery and expanded Sycomp's role as a strategic adviser—driving scalable managed services adoption, partner alignment, and sustained cost optimization for enterprise customers.
Dawn McCale
Global Director, Sales
Sycomp A Technology Company
McCale’s team had a huge impact on advancing Sycomp’s global channel business this past year by adding new customers, identifying new business opportunities, growing business within the existing customer base and expanding into new international territories, all while increasing revenue and profit for the company and partners.
Vanessa Nudd
Director, Global Sales
Sycomp A Technology Company
Nudd continues to build Sycomp’s Global Laptop MSP program, including helping clients with end-to-end mobile/device life-cycle management; improving and simplifying the overall program including Statement of Work, invoicing, reporting and inventory management to drive greater efficiencies; and supporting the Client Catalog/Storefront and API integrations to allow for an improved client buying experience and scalability of the program.
Tanaz Choudhury
President, CEO
TanChes Global Management
Over the past year, Choudhury strengthened strategic channel partnerships by aligning go- to-market efforts, leading joint planning, and advocating partner-driven solutions that improved customer outcomes. She also represented the organization in leadership forums, built partner programs, supported diversity initiatives, and connected vendors to drive outcome-focused collaboration nationwide.
(By company name)
Tammy Cooper
CEO, CFO
Technologent
Cooper has established relationships with all Technologent’s vendors to negotiate funding for “one-off” deals. She works “behind the scenes” with the company’s distributors and the various manufacturers on getting deals moved to a favorable outcome for all parties, taking into account the structure needed to push the deal across the table. Most of her work involves working with the CFO/controllers of these vendors.
Alma Coronado
CMO
Technologent
As new technologies emerge, Coronado is ensuring that Technologent develops a clear, unified message that can be consistently communicated across the organization. With the rise of AI, the company’s go-to-market strategy shifted toward helping customers assess legacy environments and identify ways to stabilize, automate and secure infrastructure while adopting AI.
Ciera Cole
CXO
The 20
This past year, I played a critical role in accelerating The 20’s channel success by leading the alignment and readiness of its members ahead of seven strategic acquisitions. By unifying processes and strengthening communication across teams, she helped improve integration efficiency and increase customer retention in the critical months following each acquisition.
Crystal Conkle
CMO
The 20
Over the past year, Conkle drove The 20’s brand evolution, executive visibility and channel engagement. She led flagship events, thought leadership and demand strategy that elevated industry influence, strengthened partner trust, and redefined how MSP growth and M&A are marketed in the channel.
Meghan Battaglia
VP, Marketing
ThunderCat Technology
Battaglia created a dedicated partner team within ThunderCat’s organization. This team now consists of a dedicated partner manager and partner operations manager, who are working together to manage all partner relationships, account mapping, certifications, renewals and partner programs. She is now focused on growing revenue within five of the company’s top strategic OEM accounts in 2026.
Nancy Mather
COO
Uprise Partners
Mather helped Uprise grow by supporting presales, renewals and closing motions through contract preparation and customer review calls, then carried that clarity into on-boarding. She also led quarterly true-ups to keep service quantities aligned and pricing changes clear to ensure billing transparency, accuracy and stronger customer trust.
Wendy Goins
VP, Marketing
Verinext
Goins drove customer expansion and net-new logo acquisition through targeted email initiatives, integrated digital marketing campaigns and expanded content strategies. These efforts increased brand awareness, strengthened partner and sales alignment, and generated measurable growth in both organic and direct traffic to Verinext’s digital campaigns and website.
Jill Cochrane
VP, GM, Global Security Solutions
World Wide Technology
Cochrane expanded WWT’s footprint in network security, GRC and cyber resilience, setting up the business for sustained growth. She also leaned into presales activities to maximize win probability and ensure delivery outcomes; capitalized on strategic opportunities; and advanced into global markets.
Cari Wilber
VP, Marketing
World Wide Technology
Wilber has evolved and elevated WWT's Joint Event Marketing Program, partnering with key companies like Cisco, Intel, Dell, Nvidia and Microsoft to co-create impactful customer experiences. By introducing a biannual pre-planned, priority access model, she enabled partners to align early, target key customers and invest in WWT’s most effective events.
Manu Anand
VP, WinCenter, Integrated Solutioning
Zones
In 2025, Anand directly supported a $2.7 billion sales pipeline, contributing to a near-40 percent win rate through active channel engagement. She also helped drive partner-led wins across 60 percent of closed deals and enabled architects to upskill in emerging technologies, strengthening partner relationships and enabling proactive, future-focused solution conversations.
Linda Marbena
VP, GM, Global Lifecycle Services
Zones
Over the past year, Marbena drove channel transformation by operationalizing life-cycle services, strengthening OEM and partner alignment, and embedding governance and PMO discipline that improved scalability, margin performance and execution velocity. Her leadership directly enabled profitable channel growth while elevating the Zones brand.