It’s a wrap for the IT Wondrous Women™ blog series…
October 5, 2022 • 3 Minute Read
After two years and nearly 200 women featured from 15 countries, Global Touch wraps up its IT Wondrous Women™ (ITWW) blog series with a world of thanks!
ITWW was launched in October 2020 to recognize the best and brightest women from around the world with direct participation or roots in the IT industry. The women we have spotlighted hold a range of leadership roles in partner ecosystems, sales, marketing, technology, product management, and more. While some of these ITWW are well known, others are quietly driving success.
Over the last two years we have learned much from these powerhouse leaders, including career and mentorship advice, skills they’ve mastered and are still mastering, career best practices and short cuts, and much more. What is clear is all of them have two common elements: 1. They are driving game-changing success in the digital, consumption-driven economy. 2. They are moving the needle, deserving of this recognition, and inspire those who will stand on their shoulders for years to come.
My heartfelt thanks to the ITWW leaders now in our ITWW Circle of Honorees™ who contributed to making this series meaningful, real, and full of savvy advice. Lastly, a thank you to our readers who have taken the time to read, comment, and re-post this series!
It has been a privilege and honor to spotlight so many amazing and impressive women from around the world! The IT industry, the corporate world, and not-for-profits are in great hands with this high caliber of global women leaders who are forging a path to unimagined new heights!
It's a wrap for Global Touch's IT Wondrous Women™ blog series.
Alex Coates, Managing Director, Australia, Datacom (Australia)
Alexandra Zagury, Vice President, Partner Managed & as-a-Service, Global Partner Sales, Cisco (USA)
Amy Chow, Country Manager, Hong Kong & Macau, Check Point Software Technologies (Hong Kong)
Amy Wingate, Senior Director, Finance Shared Services, Cisco (USA)
Andromeda Booth, Marketing Director, Just After Midnight (United Kingdom)
Anette Brurås, Head of Delivery and Operational Excellence, Tietoevry (Norway)
Angela Rieu-Clarke, Chief People Officer, Waracle (Scotland)
Angeliqua Ramming Gaden, Head of Sales, Experis (Norway)
Angie McCourt, Success and Mindset Coach, Authentic Me Revolution (USA)
Anne McClelland, Vice President, XaaS Channel Optimization Research, TSIA (USA)
Ashleigh Gray, Founding Director, Women in Alliances (Canada)
Ayesha Liaqat, Director of Network and Unified Communications, UMass Memorial Health (USA)
Blanca Galletero, Group Vice President, Channels, Alliances, and GTM Europe, Splunk (Spain)
Bonni-Jo Salazar, Head of Global Partner Programs & Initiatives, Zoom (USA)
Bridget Bisnette, Chief Operating Officer, Rewards Cloud (USA)
Brooke Cunningham, Area Vice President, Global Partner Marketing & Experience, Splunk (USA)
Carissa Hughes, Associate Partner AWS Alliance Lead, IBM (Australia)
Carol Ann McKeown, Retired (USA)
Caroline Japic, Senior Director of Revenue Marketing, Cisco Secure & Chief Marketing Officer of Kenna Security (now part of Cisco) (USA)
Caroline Raj, Senior Director and Head of Marketing, ANZ, ServiceNow (Australia)
Carrie Mott, Head of Marketing, APAC, FullStory (Australia)
Catherine Heilemann, Director & Master Coach, The Salary Coach (Australia)
Cathy Conroy, Director, Pathways, Asia Pacific & Japan, Druva (Australia)
Catriona Walkerden, Vice President of Global Marketing, Logicalis (Australia)
Charlene Mowery, General Manager, Federal Growth, Microsoft (USA)
Cheryln Chin, Vice President, Global Partners & Alliances, UiPath (USA)
Christine Linthacum, Director Partner Program and Operations, Elastic (USA)
Cindra Ford, Director Strategy, Planning and Operations, Cisco (USA)
Claudia Romanini-Backus, Head of Enterprise & Productivity Partnerships, Facebook Reality Lab (USA)
Courtney Pullen, Senior Sales & Account Manager, Heyflow (Germany)
Dana Testa, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Adobe Commerce, Adobe (USA)
Daniela Schilling, Director, Vogel IT Academy (Germany)
Dao Jensen, Chief Executive Officer, Oak Rocket (USA)
Deanna Davenport, Senior Director, Lifecycle Services, ConvergeOne (USA)
Debbie Anders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Americas Region, NTT Ltd. (USA)
Debbie Dove Larson, Senior Vice President of Sales - North Central Region, Sirius Computer Solutions (USA)
Debbie Dunnam, Chief Commercial Officer, Dropbox (USA)
Deborah Bale, Director of Insurance, everis UK, an NTT Data Company (United Kingdom)
Deborah Bannworth, Senior Vice President, Partner Alliances, Inside Sales, Maintenance Sales & Services, Sirius Computer Solutions (USA)
Debby Spaltmann, Founder and Executive Coach, I4I-Influence-for-Impact (Germany)
Denise McCutchen Grace, Principal, Coaching for Results, LLC (USA)
Denise Sangster, President & Chief Executive Officer, Global Touch, Inc (USA)
Dianne Lapierre, Chief Information Officer, Absolute Software (Canada)
Edna Conway, Vice President, Chief Security & Risk Officer, Azure, Microsoft (USA)
Elisabeth De Dobbeleer, Vice President, EMEAR Partner Lead, Cisco (United Kingdom)
Elizabeth Perlin, Head of Executive & Employee Communications, HPE Compute, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (USA)
Emma Pudney, Chief Technology Officer, Koala (Australia)
Erin Malone, Senior Vice President, American Sales, Sophos (USA)
Esther Ayorinde, Founder, GrowthQ (USA)
Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville (USA)
Esther Westerweele, Founder, LEF Marketing & Events (The Netherlands)
Faith Wheller, Senior Marketing Director, Head of Marketing - Intuit Quickbooks UK, Intuit (United Kingdom)
Falguni Desai, Sabbatical (USA)
Gabrielle Hase, Chief Executive Officer, Soleberry Advisory (United Kingdom)
Gillian Docherty, Chief Commercial Officer, University of Strathclyde (Scotland)
Gillian Munson, Chief Financial Officer, Vimeo (USA)
Ginny Cartwright Ziegler, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, North America, Accenture (USA)
Harninder Bassi, Vice President & Chief of Staff to the CEO, Pindrop (USA)
Heather Clancy, Editorial Director, GreenBiz Group (USA)
Heather Tenuto, Chief Revenue Officer, Zift Solutions (USA)
Heidi Mantis, Head of NTT Alliance ANZ, Juniper Networks (Australia)
Heidi Melin, Senior Operating Advisor, Hellman & Friedman (USA)
Helen Chang, Conference Interpreter, Freelance (China)
Helen Ligonis, Asia Pacific Alliance Executive, IBM (Australia)
Hélène Draoulec, Chief Marketing Officer, iAdvize (France)
Hilary Doe, President, NationBuilder (USA)
Holly Briedis, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital & Marketing Officer, Fossil Group (USA)
Hope Galley, Global Channel Leader, Cisco Meraki (USA)
Ilona van Ginkel, Head of Marketing Netherlands, Trend Micro (The Netherlands)
Imane Jamal Eddine, Chief of Staff, Microsoft Asia, Microsoft (Singapore)
Ingrid Burton, Marketing Executive, Board Member & Advisor (USA)
Isabella Yani, AppDynamics Sales Director, Cisco (USA)
Jennifer Pockell Dimas, Chief Marketing & Experience Officer, Telarus (USA)
Jenny Evans, Head of Marketing, J2 Innovations (a Siemens Company) (United Kingdom)
Jo Peterson, Vice President of Cloud and Security Services, Clarify360 (USA)
Joanne Montz, Senior Global Sales Enablement Manager, Telco and Edge Cloud Business Unit, VMware (USA)
José van Dijk, Partner Performance and Experiences Organization, Cisco (The Netherlands)
Joyce Hunter, Executive Director, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (USA)
Jude McCorry, Advisory/Delivery Board Member, Data-Driven Innovation Initiative (Scotland)
Julia Chen, VP Partner Core, Amazon Web Services (USA)
Juliana Vida, Senior Advisor, McChrystal Group (USA)
Julie Hens, Vice President, Global Virtual Sales & Engineering, Cisco (USA)
Julie Knight-Ludvigson, Chief Marketing Officer, Unit4 (USA)
Julie Parrish, Chief Marketing Officer, Corelight, Inc. (USA)
Julie Thomas, Senior Director, Partner Strategy & Programs, Global Partner & RTM Sales Organization, Cisco (USA)
June Boo, Head of Asia Business, LinkedIn Sales Solutions, LinkedIn (Singapore)
Karen Platt, Co-Founder, One P Design (Australia)
Karine Elsen, Vice President of Partner Marketing, Avalara (USA)
Kathi Kaplan, Senior Vice President, Demand Generation, UiPath (USA)
Kathrine Forsberg, Chief Executive Officer, Attea Denmark (Denmark)
Kathy Ameche, Vice President Executive Partner, Gartner Inc (USA)
Kavita May, Senior Vice President, Planning & Operations, Global Technology Distribution Council (USA)
Kelley Damore, Chief Content Officer, TechTarget (USA)
Kerri Lampard, APJC Partner Architecture Sales and Engineering Director, Cisco (Singapore)
Kerry Desberg, Chief Marketing Officer, Impartner Software (USA)
Kerry Wright, Owner, Kerry Wright Aesthetics (United Kingdom)
Kristine Stewart, Partner Strategy & Success Thought Leader (USA)
Laura Bailey, Strategic Account Director, NashTech (United Kingdom)
Lesley Andrews, Vice President of Strategic Alliances for North America, CompuCom (Canada)
Lisa Fitzpatrick, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Grapevine Health (USA)
Lisa Mackenzie, Partner & Semi-Retired, The Channel Company (USA)
Lisa Penn, Chief of Staff, Global Channel Marketing, SAP (USA)
Liz Lawson, Senior Partner Field Enablement Lead - APAC, Amazon Web Services (Australia)
Lori Cornmesser, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channel & Alliance Sales, Deepwatch (USA)
Louise Runyard, General Manager of Technology, Waddle, From Xero (Australia)
Luxy Thuraisingam, Head of Global Partner Marketing, Cisco (Canada)
Lydia Huang, Executive Director, CSP Development, Lenovo (China)
Magdeleine Bourgoin, VP, EMEA & LATAM GTM Sales Acceleration, Palo Alto Networks (France)
Maggie Morrison, Business Development Director, Hi55 Ventures (Scotland)
Mandy Haeburn-Little, Executive Chair, Business Resilience International Management (BRIM) (Scotland)
Mari Galloway, Chief Executive Officer, Cyberjutsu (USA)
Marianne Calder, VP, EMEA Partner Sales, Genesys (United Kingdom)
Marion Ryan, Vice President, Alliances & Channel Ecosystem APJ, ServiceNow (Singapore)
Marleese Attilakos, ANZ Country Manager, Cisco Meraki (Australia)
Marlen von Roth, Sales Director Cloud EMEA, SUSE (United Kingdom)
Mattie Gullixson, Senior Cyber Analyst Supervisor, Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (USA)
Melina Anthony, Program Success Principal Consultant- Strategic Accounts, Qualtrics (USA)
Melissa Andrews, Solutions Engineering Manager, Army / COCOMs, Splunk (USA)
Melissa Murray Bailey, Chief Revenue Officer, Hootsuite (USA)
Mercy Manning, Vice President, Sales & Sustainability Strategy, Aligned (USA)
Mette Roald, Head of Products & Portfolio Strategy, Vipps (Norway)
Michala Hart, Director, BT Security, BT (United Kingdom)
Michelle Ayyuce, Marketing Manager - Service Provider Australia and New Zealand, Cisco (Australia)
Michelle Chiantera, Chief Marketing Officer, Alludo (USA)
Michelle Covey, Vice President, Commercialization, GS1 US (USA)
Michelle Woodward Hodges, Advisory Board, AchieveUnite (USA)
Monica White, Director of Product Marketing, Cisco (Canada)
Mrinalini Lakshminaryanan, Global Executive Director, Digital Operations and Industry Solutions, Ingram Micro (USA)
Muna Khurshid, Vice President, Worldwide Networking & Security Solution Engineering, VMware (USA)
Nadine Rubin, Managing Partner, Adam-Bryce, LLC (USA)
Nancy Ridge, Founder & President, Ridge Innovative (USA)
Nancy Thomas, Global Head of Video Collaboration Channel Development, Logitech (USA)
Neetu Shaw, Partner and Americas Leader for Data & AI Enterprise Strategy, IBM (USA)
Patty Gray, Senior Vice President, Global Vendor Success, Westcon-Comstor (USA)
Pauline Tng, Head of Partners, APAC, Jumio Corporation (Singapore)
Phyllis Waud, Senior Director of Channels & Alliances, Syntax (USA)
Pinky Jia, Director for System Development of Lenovo Infrastructure, Lenovo (China)
Quintana Patterson, IT Clinical and Compliance Manager, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (USA)
Raen Lim, Group Vice President, Asia, Splunk (Singapore)
Rachel Barger, Senior Vice President, Americas Sales, Cisco (USA)
Rebecca Bell, Senior Director and Team Lead, Office of the President (GTM), Zendesk (United Kingdom)
Rebecca Brennan, Sales Director, Carahsoft Technology Corp. (USA)
Rebecca Carr, Vice President, Checkr Pay, Checkr, Inc. (USA)
Ruma Balasubramanian, Managing Director, Google Cloud - Southeast Asia, Google (Singapore)
Sabine Hammer, Director, Chief of Staff Infrastructure Solutions Group EMEA, Lenovo Global Technology Germany GmbH (Germany)
Sabine Howest, Senior Vice President, Global Digital Operations, Ingram Micro, Inc. (USA)
Sabrina Lin, Senior Advisor to the President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
Samara Halterman, Global head of Partner Marketing, Pure Storage (USA)
Sandra Flinders, Vice President Partner Strategy and Programs, Commvault (USA)
Sandy Salty, Chief Marketing Officer, Trace3 (USA)
Sara Avery, Regional Sales Manager, Zscaler (USA)
Shinie Shaw, Senior Director of Networking & Security Strategy and Planning, VMware (USA)
Simone Heitmann, Group Director, Partner Management, Computacenter (Germany)
Stacey Beer, Head of Marketing, APJ, Riverbed Technology (Australia)
Stanimira Koleva, Executive Vice President, International Markets, Sage (Singapore)
Stephenie Southard, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Baxter Credit Union (USA)
Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, President & Chief Executive Officer at U.S. Vote Foundation and the Overseas Vote Foundation (Germany)
Susan Follis, Managing Director, Kyndryl ASEAN and APAC/MEA Growth Unit, Kyndryl (Singapore)
Tara Ridley, Vice President Alliances & Channels ANZ, Salesforce (Australia)
Tatyana Kanzaveli, Chief Executive Officer, Open Health Network (USA)
Therese Olafsen Mørck, Country Leader, Norway, Nordcloud (an IBM Company) (Norway)
Tia Dubuisson, President & Co-Founder, Belle Fleur Technologies (USA)
Tiffany Wright, Education Director, Microsoft Australia (Australia)
Tina Gravel, Senior Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances, AppGate (USA)
Tina Nolte, Vice President Product and Marketing, Spectro Cloud (USA)
Tone O. Sandvik, Head of Salesforce and CX, Tietoevry (Norway)
Tracy-Ann Palmer, Vice President, Partner Experience, Programs and Distribution, VMware (USA)
Uma Balasingam, Vice President, Ecosystem & Commercial Organization, Asia Pacific & Japan, VMware (Singapore)
Vaishali Ghiya, Head of AWS Partner Business Development, Amazon Web Services (USA)
Vera Shulman, Chief Executive Officer, ProfiSea (Israel)
Vicki Batka, Vice President, Partner Sales APJC, Cisco (Singapore)
Vicky Reddington, Co-Founder, Amplified Group (United Kingdom)
Vikki Mitchell, Senior Global Partner Manager, World Wide Technology (United Kingdom)
Wendy Bahr, Advisor, Pindrop (USA)
Wendy Komadina, APJC Channel Chief, Cloudflare (Australia)
Yolande Abeling, Audience Marketing, Cisco (Australia)
Yvonne Bernard, Chief Technology Officer, Hornetsecurity (Germany)
Zoe Lou, Director, Global Business Marketing, Greater China, Meta (Hong Kong)
