The 2023 Inclusive Channel Leaders Awards
These 100 executives have taken inclusivity to heart, and they work every day at their companies to ensure all employees feel valued and respected.
What does it mean to be inclusive leader?
These 100 executives have taken this critical issue to heart, and they work every day at their companies to ensure all employees feel valued and respected.
Fostering such a workplace environment isn’t an easy endeavor or a quick fix—it takes time, effort and education to bring together people from diverse backgrounds and make certain that their voices are heard.
Here we present our inaugural list of Inclusive Channel Leaders who are making a difference every day.
(By last name)
Moe Alhassan
Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture
Amazon Web Services
Over the past year, Alhassan gave an internal talk to 300+ people in his organization about developing high-performing diverse teams. He has also directly worked to improve efforts in hiring more women and people of color.
John Atchison
Global Head Of Channel Marketing
Versa Networks
Atchison actively embraces and supports Versa Networks’ culture, fostering a welcoming, supportive and inclusive workplace where team members of all backgrounds and demographic characteristics have access to the same opportunities and resources.
Graciano Beyhaut
VP, GM
Flex
Beyhaut aims to bring some of his experiences developing Hispanic and Latino ERGs at previous companies to Flex. He has also served as the board president of the North Carolina chapter of Prospanica, an association of Hispanic professionals.
Kiran Bhujle
Global Cybersecurity Leader
SVAM International
Bhujle is a member of the Columbia University DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility) group,
where he prioritizes inclusion and accessibility to accommodate diverse students through various learning methods. He has also been in discussions with minority- and women-led companies to explore potential business partnerships.
Laura Blackmer
President, Dealer Sales
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A.
For Blackmer, a diverse employee workforce where everyone feels welcome and heard is the key to success. She has benefited from working for leaders who also believe in an inclusive culture and allowed her to grow and thrive.
Meg Brennan
VP, Global Channels
Riverbed
Brennan started Riverbed’s women’s employee resource group, The Power of She, which offers female employees a greater sense of community. She also participates in Riverbed’s Diversity Task Force, which works to improve recruiting, retention and experience for diverse people at Riverbed.
Charla Bunton- Johnson
VP, Global Alliances, Channels
Lightbits Labs
As a mixed-race woman executive, Bunton-Johnson is always looking for ways to enable equity across the organization. For her it is important to have men as allies for women and leadership that embraces diversity at all levels.
Marie Carlton
Sr. Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture
Amazon Web Services
Carlton led an initiative to hire and develop early career and career transition candidates from diverse backgrounds. The success of this initiative led to significant year-over-year investments to support and grow this talent pipeline, which continues to this day.
Jason Carter
CRO
SonicWall
Carter is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace for all employees. In the past year, he has launched and refined inclusion and diversity groups, which have celebrated cultural milestones, established volunteer efforts, and spoken out against discrimination.
Sandy Carter
COO, Head of Business Development
Unstoppable Domains
Two months after joining Unstoppable Domains, Carter founded Unstoppable Women of Web3, a nonprofit organization championing women in the Web3 industry and promoting educational initiatives to encourage greater diversity and inclusion.
Rob Cato
Vice President, North America Channel Chief
Lenovo
Over the past year, Cato has built a team consisting of a broad and diverse group of individuals. He has added new roles to the team and has been thoughtful and purposeful about the candidates to ensure Lenovo is achieving key diversity metrics.
Todd Chapman
Global Carrier Managed Services Business Development Manager
Ciena
Chapman was the driving force behind Ciena’s Thrive program, a personal and professional development initiative for under-represented groups. He also co-leads the Ciena Black and African Heritage ERG.
Tanaz Choudhury
President
Tanches Global Management
As a principal for Tanches Global Management, Choudhury serves as the company’s chief inclusivity officer. Her efforts to bring minorities and women into the STEM fields have been a lifelong pursuit, and she makes it her personal mission to invoke STEM in education.
Cheryl Cook
SVP, Global Channel Marketing
Dell Technologies
Cook is fostering an inclusive environment where team members feel valued, engaged and inspired to do their best work. According to an internal employee satisfaction survey, 90 percent of her team members believe they can be successful as their authentic selves.
Staci Corbett
Sr. Manager, Channel Marketing
Fusion Connect
Corbett has educated internal teams on the value of DEI. For her, inclusive leadership is ensuring that all employees get the opportunity to have a seat at the table and that different perspectives are heard, valued and utilized.
Lori Cornmesser
SVP, Worldwide Channel, Alliance Sales
Deepwatch
Cornmesser kicked off the BIPOC ERG at Deepwatch in January. Her goal is to have the group help inform the business on recruiting, retention and ways that the company can have a positive impact on the community. The ERG also offers a safe space for genuine, authentic conversations about diversity.
Larissa Crandall
VP, Global Channel, Alliances
Veeam Software
Crandall volunteered for various panels with men and women talking through diversity and lessons that can be learned from each other. She also has worked closely with HR teams to look for more diverse candidates that could bring in other backgrounds or perspectives.
Christina Crowley
SVP, Global Partner Services Sales
Dell Technologies
As a mentor to diverse employees, Crowley has led Dell’s efforts around inclusion by hosting mentoring circles for women and under-represented minorities and presenting on women in technology panels about her career journey.
Rola Dagher
Global Channel Chief
Dell Technologies
Dagher hosts monthly “Listening Committees” with a cross-functional diverse team and travels internationally to gain insight from team members and partners. She also collaborates with Dell leaders to create a unified voice and participates in diversity and inclusion discussions.
Jackie Darling
VP, Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
TD Synnex
Darling’s key efforts include instituting an education program that defines what it means to be an inclusive leader, influencing executives to take accountability for DEI, and continuing to create a safe space where ideas, experiences and opinions are openly shared.
Luis Férez
SVP, Global Group President, Latin America
Ingram Micro
Férez works with leadership and the HR team to develop a diverse and inclusive culture. He supports local and regional initiatives to push forward Ingram Micro’s culture and inspire its leaders to be an example of integrity and respect.
Juan Fernandez
Global Channel Chief
HacWare
One of the biggest impacts Fernandez believes he has had comes from watching others begin to share their voice. Through many of the keynotes he has given, he said people have thanked him for sharing his story and said he inspired them to share their own.
Melissa Freiermuth
Manager, Digital PMO
CDI
Freirmuth is proud of her focus on diversity when it comes to hiring practices and says her team, made up entirely of minorities, has an advantage because of it. She also services as the president of Women in Tech, an employee resource group.
Steven Gangaram
Director, Partner Program Management
Comcast Business and Masergy
Gangaram was among the first volunteers for the Comcast Business and Masergy DEI partner program. He has helped to grow the program to include additional partners, new benefits and hands-on support. He was reconized with an MVP award in part because of his advocacy for bringing together team members from varied backgrounds and experiences.
Jeffrey Goldstein
Founder, Managing Director
Queue Associates
Goldstein established a diversity and inclusion committee within the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners, which Microsoft promoted globally. At Queue, he encourages employees to stand up to microaggressions and any other biases that appear within the corporate culture.
Claudia Gomez Llamas
VP, Secure Power Global Marketing
Schneider Electric
Gomez Llamas promoted diversity and inclusion by evolving the organizational structure to prioritize different backgrounds, origins, generations and gender to better serve the business and customers. Currently 67 percent of her leadership team are women, 26 percent come from new economies and 18 percent are early in their careers.
Tina Gravel
VP, Global Head Of Channels
Quantexa
Gravel has approached the senior management team about creating a women’s affinity group. She has already become known as a high-ranking advocate for diversity within Quantexa in the six months since joining the company.
Rashel Graves
Director, Channel Sales Operations, Strategy
Verizon Business
Graves participated in IoT and Women in Tech panels and the Alliance of Black Women roundtable, which focused on the role black organizations like HBCUs, Jack and Jill of America and Divine Nine play in shaping the African American community.
Anthony Graziano
SVP, Marketing
D&H Distributing
Graziano is joined D&H in June, where he plans to leverage his past experience to continue to amplify LGBTQ+ voices. In his previous role he led virtual educational events to bring awareness of issues facing the community and drove opportunities to create more allyship.
Wendy Harmon
AVP, Channel Marketing
RingCentral
One of the most impactful ways Harmon has contributed to inclusivity is through mentorship. She is a mentee and mentor with male and female counterparts, and it is through these interactions that she aims to make a difference in people’s lives.
Bronwyn Hastings
VP, Global ISV Ecosystems, Channels
Google Cloud
As the partner ecosystem DEI executive sponsor, Hastings joined forces with Google Cloud’s DEI go-to-market and marketing teams to create the “Partnering with Purpose” initiative, which has fostered a number of opportunities across diversity pillars.
Kristina Hodge
Sr. Marketing Manager, Campaigns, Operations
ESET North America
Hodge co-leads the ESET Diversity Council, working to foster a more inclusive workplace. She oversees various initiatives, including training, employee workshops and mentorship programs to promote awareness and support for DEI across the organization.
Lyndsey Hoffman
VP, Social Impact
Pax8
Hoffman developed a strategic business idea to create a Social Impact team at Pax8 and created a new Social Impact department, which is a key building block for the company’s people, communities, vendors and partners. She also relaunched Pax8’s ERGs globally.
Ohilda Holguin
Channel Manager
Logitech
Holguin was the moderator for Logitech’s Women Who Master webinar, speaking about bridging the gap for girls and women in technology. She also was a panelist for LogiBE, celebrating contributions of people in technology during Black History Month.
Kevin Hooton
Regional VP
SoftwareOne
As executive sponsor of SoftwareOne’s DEIB initiatives, Hooton introduced extensive organization-wide training on DEIB. He also established ERGs for Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic and LGBTQ groups and created diversity recruitment partnerships.
Prem Iyer
SVP, Global Ecosystems
Palo Alto Networks
Iyer is the executive sponsor of UJIMA, Palo Alto Networks’ Black Employee Network Group. He also make it a point to identify talented people in different communities who are looking to grow within the company and then introduces them to people who can help make that happen.
Jack Jackson
VP, Global Channel Sales
Instructure
Jackson mandates that everyone at Instructure gets a fair, equitable seat at the table. He also sits
on the board of a nonprofit organization that supports underprivileged, minority and LGBTQ+ communities, where he has been recognized for his inclusive leadership.
Charissa Jaganath
Global Head Of Responsible Business
Logicalis
Jaganath is co-chair of Logicalis’ Global Inclusion Council and has been key to several initiatives, including increasing the number of women in leadership roles globally, driving diverse employee recruitment and advancing employee DEI training.
Cassandra Jeppson
Director, North America Channel Programs, Operations
Lenovo
Jeppson provides thought leadership around DEI and the significant value these efforts bring to Lenovo. She participates in media outreach, social engagements, mentoring and business coaching.
Alex Johnson
Director, National Channel Accounts
Vertiv
A member of the Women at Vertiv Excel ERG, Johnson ensured inclusivity was enabled in the recruitment process for hiring members of the channel team. The impact was the creation of a team with open communication that resulted in increased innovation and revenue.
Kam Kaila
President
IT By Design
Kaila is very intentional when hiring to ensure that IT By Design is supporting and enabling the success of diverse applicants. She provides mentorship and active sponsorship support to these team members so she can lessen the obstacles in their path to success.
Matt Kalmenson
VP, Sales, Commercial Sales, Cloud Service Providers
Veeam Software
As Veeam’s Inclusion ERG founder and leader, Kalmenson pulled together a core launch team that focused on diverse initiatives, including education and content, communications, membership liaison, and event and logistics leads.
Jeff Kratz
VP, Worldwide Public Sector Partners
Amazon Web Services
Kratz has focused his efforts on his team and AWS’ partner network. He is committed to continuous education and weaves DEI into conversations with partners to encourage them and AWS to collectively make an impact.
Kush Kumar
CRO
Red River
Kumar is the executive lead for Red River’s DEI committee, ensuring this focus remains a priority at every level of the company. He works with the executive team to drive metrics that support recruiting and hiring and makes it a focus to shed light on social issues.
Joseph Landes
CRO
Nerdio
Landes made sure the topic of DEI was in the spotlight at the company’s NerdioCon event. He has also made significant progress in bringing more female leaders into the company as Nerdio’s leadership positions are 28 percent female and rapidly increasing.
Sherri Madison
GM, Partner Data, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Communications Group
Intel
Madison is an active member of the Intel Black Leadership Council and teaches Inclusive Leaders Workshops. She also sponsors the Network of Intel African Ancestry in her business group and engages the Intel Black Leadership Council and Intel Black Network of Executive Women. She also sponsors an inclusion task force.
Diego Majdalani
President, Global Channel Sales
Dell Technologies
Majdalani is focused on fostering an inclusive environment for team members. Regular succession planning with his leadership team ensures open and inclusive discussion for future organizational development, allowing potential to be recognized and mentored.
Alexandra Matthiesen
CMO
Pillr
Matthiesen leaned in fully to the community and connection offered by Women’s and Inclusive Leadership Networks. She has forged new bonds and sparked impactful conversations among her network cohorts focused on issues that are key to changing the broader channel landscape.
Toby McDuffie
Sr. Director, Global Distribution Channel
Ciena
McDuffie volunteers as a mentor in a yearlong women’s leadership development program called Women Unlimited. She also co-mentors a group of up-and-coming women leaders, addressing common gender parity issues and challenges.
Marc Menzies
President, CTO
Overview Technology Solutions
Menzies believes that an organization’s growth potential is stifled by not having diverse opinions that inform the decision-making process. He has strived to become a leader that listens and allows employees to help determine who they are and who they hope to become.
Rudy Michelon
CEO
Skyriver IT
Skyriver IT partners with the National Foundation for Autism Research and provides internship positions for candidates with an interest in outsourced IT services. Michelon has facilitated this relationship because his youngest child and he are on the autisim spectrum.
Denise Millard
SVP, Global Alliances
Dell Technologies
Millard leads an advocacy group for women at Dell who are new to the workforce and mentors them in career development and skill-set growth. She also has led discussions with Dell’s GenNext ERG, which seeks to foster the next generation of diverse leaders.
Kaylee Misch
Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Program Manager
TD Synnex
Misch led a team to create a new business resource group for the Asian Pacific Islander community. She also served as interim chair of TD Synnex’s LGBTQ+ business resource group, ensuring successful engagement and education.
Saurabh Mishra
Global Leader, Google Cloud Business
Quantiphi
For Quantiphi’s ESG initiatives, Mishra leveraged his experience to draft committees and identify organizations to partner with. He also allocated funding from Quantiphi’s channel portfolio toward reinvestment in social and inclusive priorities.
Mark Murphy
Director, Global Partner Marketing, Routes To Market
Cisco Systems
After four years of mentoring an LGBTQ+ Singapore colleague, Murphy guided Cisco to hold its first Singapore Pride event. In addition, through a yearlong U.K. mentor program, his LGBTQ+ mentee moved to a new role.
Melissa Nacerino
VP, Global Channels, Alliances Marketing
Netskope
Nacerino has seen much progress through her work with the Awesome Women of Netskope ERG. The group is uniting female employees and allies to foster a supportive community where members learn and grow professionally and advance diversity and inclusion.
Christina Nairn
Director, Americas Regional Marketing
Sophos
Over the past year, Sophos has taken a mentorship model Nairn developed and started launching it to other DEI groups and the broader company, supporting its commitment to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of DEI.
Ronnell Nobles
Partner Investment Leader
Cisco Systems
Nobles established and led the investment strategy for the African American Cisco Partner Community. The framework led to direct and indirect investment into African-American- and Black-owned businesses, allowing them to grow their brand, capacity and profitability.
Gretchen O’Hara
VP, Worldwide Partners, Alliances
Splunk
As a co-founder of Women in Cloud, an adviser and member of Ideagen and board member for the Women’s Leadership Council, O’Hara helps address issues such as financial inclusion and the gender gap and provides the tools, knowledge and networks women need to succeed.
Tracie Orisko
Sr. Director, Community
Huntress
Orisko has worked with Huntress’ recruiting organization to find more diverse hiring channels. She also has coordinated a professional and personal development program for her team members that caters to their unique needs.
Saida Ortiz
Channels Director, Latin America
Vertiv
Ortiz participated in an initiative to mentor women leaders at Vertiv. In addition, she was part of the company’s equity and inclusion committee, generating actions of empowerment, visibility and commitment.
Susan O’Sullivan
VP, U.S. Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Ingram Micro
O’Sullivan spent a lot of time in open listening forums and extending Ingram Micro’s ERG efforts beyond the office employees to the warehouse teams. She also has been working on partner-focused efforts to help under-represented partners achieve greater success.
Maryann Pagano
CEO
BlackHawk Data
Pagano aims to encourage people to move into the technology space and has paved the way for others. Between weekly social posts, quarterly LinkedIn Live events, mentoring and coaching on her personal time, she feels like she has started to make a difference.
Tracy-Ann Palmer
VP, Channel Sales Programs, Channel Compliance
VMware
Palmer helped her team exceed its executive goals in under-represented minorities and women representation. She shared her knowledge and best practices of diversity and inclusivity gained through her Executive Coaching Certification.
Tara Palmieri
Sr. Manager, Global Strategic Initiatives
Amazon Web Services
As president of the women@AWS partner organization affinity group, Palmieri sponsored expansion into Latin America and Europe and launched a business adviser internal initiative that matched three under- represented top women builders with senior leaders.
Lani (Sherlaender) Phillips
VP, Channel Sales Organization
Microsoft
Phillips has hired a diverse channel organization with 60 percent diversity in her leadership team. She also is the executive sponsor of Microsoft’s Black Partner Growth Initiative and the Black Channel Partner Alliance.
Patricia Picco
Director, Global Partner Programs
Ciena
Picco believes leadership rotation is key to creating maximum participation within a team. When she oversees a team, everyone takes a turn at having the lead role and has free rein to set agendas, drive improvements and establish collaborative topics.
Lorna Pierno
Director, Channel Marketing, Communications; Vice Chair, La Raza
Extreme Networks
Pierno represents La Raza, Extreme’s ERG for Hispanic employees. This past year, the group brought awareness of Hispanic Heritage Month across the organization and beyond.
Jean Plank
Director, North American Channel Sales
Park Place Technologies
Plank launched the Veterans Business Resource Group. The group last year held or participated in six events, launched a SharePoint site for companywide awareness, and created an on-boarding process with the HR department.
Ted Plumis
SVP, Channels, Strategic GTM Alliances
Exabeam
Plumis has been dedicated to diversifying his team throughout the past year. He has seen people establish new connections with U.S. partners Exabeam never had before, consider novel commercial strategies and bring unique ideas to the table.
Karen Pugliese
Global VP, Channel Partners
CommScope
Pugliese built an informal mentoring circle for CommScope’s new hires, focusing on creating a safe space for guidance and support as they navigated through the organization. This was further supported by her DEI leadership role.
Judi Pulig
CFO
Yorktel
Through reading and training, Pulig educated herself on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She then created a culture that ensured Yorktel’s values reflected this commitment and that the company made its hiring practices as fair and unbiased as possible.
Tonya Roach
VP, Sales, Intelligent Solutions
Arrow Electronics
Roach has spent time mentoring employees and has found it rewarding to watch them blossom and begin to show more confidence and presence in meetings, where she makes sure to create the time and space to draw out everyone’s opinions.
Dave Rogers
SVP, Global Alliances, Channel Sales
Netskope
Rogers’ priority is mentorship of Netskope’s employees from early in their career to leaders on an executive path. As he hires, he goes beyond the immediate network and recognizes the opportunities that come with an expanded, differentiated network.
Mayka Rosales-Peterson
Sr. Manager, Partner Marketing
Intelisys, a ScanSource Company
Rosales-Peterson has hosted safe space webinars and led strategic DEI initiatives at the company. She also launched Intelisys’ first Diversity Partner Program.
Kristin Russell
Global President, Enterprise Computing Solutions
Arrow Electronics
Russell has implemented DEI training for all employees globally, updated hiring guidelines to ensure balance in Arrow’s talent pipeline and created an employee “think tank” for recommendations to management.
Sanjib Sahoo
EVP, Global Chief Digital Officer
Ingram Micro
Sahoo has built Ingram Micro’s digital team from the inside out and outside in to include different backgrounds and viewpoints. Together the team balances the art of possible with the art of feasible and has given life to Ingram Micro Xvantage, its digital twin. He also plans to particpate in more roundtables and look to bring more voices forward with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Shannon Sbar
VP, Channels, Secure Power
Schneider Electric
Sbar understands the importance of creating spaces where women can feel seen, heard and celebrated. She believes that by providing opportunities for women on her team, she is creating a culture that values diversity and inclusion.
Allen Shahdadi
VP, Global Sales
Sycomp
Shahdadi has been an inclusive leader through his hiring efforts. Sycomp has a heavily weighted sales force of women, with many of them having leadership positions. He has pushed to create these roles and lift up women across the organization.
Elena Shorb
VP, Channels, Alliances
Mission Cloud
Shorb has implemented transparent diversity reporting into all presentations and leads a partnership with AWS SuitUp that delivers volunteer career days to under-represented students. She also hosts community events with organizations like Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen and the Children’s Rescue Mission.
Sarit Singhal
President, CEO
Superior Support Resources
Singhal has been promoting diversity and inclusion in all aspects of his interactions. He has created a welcoming environment and practices empathy and understanding by actively listening and fostering inclusivity in feedback.
Dawn Sizer
CEO
3d Element Consulting
Sizer finds a way for everyone in her organization, regardless of their differences, to succeed. 3rd Element has people of color and neuro-diverse employees, and 25 percent of the staff is comprised of women. She has also built on-boarding to account for neuro-diversity.
Michael Slater
Head Of Sales, Channel Marketplace
Sherweb
Slater has been working on launching Sherweb’s DEIPP program for partners, similar to Microsoft’s Black Partner Growth Initiative. He also has promoted diverse hiring, representing communities including BIPOC, neuro-diverse and LGBTQ+.
Mark Snider
EVP; President, EMEA
Ingram Micro
Snider is leading the way as Ingram Micro has seen energy and performance from regional and global teams, especially in regions and countries that haven’t had much diversity in the past. He has also seen progress in recruiting more women to the company.
Kilynn Sommer
VP, Global Partner Programs, Channel Marketing
Extreme Networks
Sommer supported the promotion of the first DEI badge program as part of Extreme’s Global Partner Program. She also focused on driving recruitment in diverse communities.
Susanna Song
VP, Marketing, Communications
High Wire Networks
In High Wire Networks’ recent annual executive leadership team meeting, Song brought up DEI as an issue to be discussed and was given the green light to come up with a proposal as to how DEI should be incorporated companywide.
Andrico Spates
Sr. Manager, Sales Business Development
Cisco Systems
Over the past year, Spates has participated in panels on inclusion, helped create diverse channel partner programs, worked with HBCUs, and authored a book to help others be successful in their career journeys.
Osca St Marthe
VP, Worldwide Solutions Engineering
SonicWall
St Marthe encouraged SonicWall leaders to broaden diverse teaming, created a new-hire EMEA on-boarding program, and rewrote all job files to raise awareness of inclusion across countries, religions, gender and culture.
Sonia St. Charles
Founder, CEO
Davenport Group
St. Charles made intentional moves toward a more inclusive workplace. She restructured the executive leadership team, opening leadership roles to members of traditionally under-represented groups, and staffed an HR team to facilitate equitable hiring opportunities.
Myladie Polyxeni Stoumbou
Sr. Regional Director, ISV Partners, Startups
Microsoft
Stombou’s mentorship helped two female founders in the field of agri-tech and ed-tech build key capabilities. As a member of the Women/Accessibility ERG, she has participated in initiatives such as helping partners build more inclusive and accessible solutions.
Tom Strunk
CFO
World Wide Technology
Strunk worked with WWT’s executive vice president of DEI to support shaping and growing the program. He also is one of the executive sponsors of WWT’s Supplier Diversity program and is the executive sponsor of WWT ABLE, WWT’s disabilities-enabled ERG.
Wendy Stusrud
VP, Global Channel Sales
Pure Storage
Stusrud has facilitated inclusive all-hands meetings to reflect and promote Pure’s diverse people and perspectives, making training and leadership programs available to the entire partner organization regardless of role and exploring opportunities to invest in key global contributors.
Luxy Thuraisingam
VP, Global SMB, Partner Marketing
Cisco Systems
Thuraisingam led a panel at Cisco on career mindsets to inspire others to thrive. She is a co-executive sponsor with other vice presidents of Cisco’s Partnering for Purpose initiative, which makes it easy for partners to positively impact communities and the planet.
Tarin Tomlinson
North America Equity, Inclusion Program Manager
SoftwareOne
Tomlinson launched SoftwareOne’s first inclusion survey. She also hosted a series during Black History Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month to focus on learning about each population.
Chaitra Vedullapalli
Co-Founder, CMO
Meylah
Vedullapalli co-founded Women In Cloud, a community movement aimed at generating $1 billion in economic access by 2023. The community includes around 70,000 members across 65 countries. She also is working with Microsoft to roll out 3,000 cloud scholarships to activate a diverse workforce in tech.
Jana Vondran
SVP, Global Business Services
Ingram Micro
Vondran works to create an inclusive environment where people feel accepted and valued. Managing across regions, her teams have been recipients of “Best Place to Work” recognitions for multiple years.
Robert Williams
VP, Public Sector Channel, Strategic Partnerships
Palo Alto Networks
As lead of corporate responsibility for Ujima, the company’s Black ERG, Williams’ efforts include mentoring high-school students from low-income families in D.C., one for children in inner city Chicago, and college scholarships for future Black engineers.
Sara Wilson
Sr. Director, Channel Sales, Latin America
Veeam Software
Wilson’s team of 25 is comprised of diverse backgrounds from many different countries. She also leads the global ERG for women’s development at Veeam and has connected with a core group of women across the globe.
Steve Wooledge
VP, Global Partner Strategy, Programs
Alteryx
Wooledge reviews his team on objectives for fostering a high-performance culture across a diverse and inclusive workforce. KPIs include retention, talent reviews, personal development plans, and leadership and learning opportunities.
Alexandra Zagury
VP, Partner Managed, As-a-Service Sales
Cisco Systems
Zagury has hired and created an environment where inclusivity is designed in. She has embraced mentorship and sponsorship of others and launched a constant stream of activities at Cisco, all with inclusivity top of mind.