Leadership
Our leaders bring their own personal passion and expertise that together enables us to take on the complex challenges facing our clients to keep them in the role of disruptor instead of disrupted.
Denise Sangster
President & CEO
As the founder and President & CEO of Global Touch, Inc.®, Denise Sangster spends her time helping to strengthen the bridge between the value of Global Touch’s clients' partner ecosystems and the power of their products and platforms. She is incredibly proud to sit at the intersection of their global growth and revenue strategies.
For over three decades, Denise has transformed partner and ecosystem landscapes around the world to accelerate her clients' global revenues and growth through world-class, predictable, profitable, and often unconventional partnerships in dynamic markets. Her secret sauce is a combination of deep market knowledge, creative and long-term collaboration with Global Touch’s clients, knowledge of required customer outcomes, extensive global in-field experience, and implementation of unconventional partner engagements and programs to achieve repeatable partner success.
As a partner profitability transformational leader and a global trend spotter, she advises the world's most innovative technology companies. She helps them build disruptive, next generation partnerships and pipelines and commercialize technology through partnerships. To take it to the next level, she leverages proprietary methodology she has crafted and refined over thirty years and tailored to each engagement. All of these capabilities are underpinned by her broad network of global contacts and her inquisitive nature developed from years of living and extensive global in-field experience.
Earlier in her career, Denise has brought groundbreaking innovation to the global IT industry, including servicing as the first international columnist for Computer Reseller News (CRN) in three countries, a syndicated columnist in 14 countries, and the producer of two groundbreaking IT conferences focusing on IT companies and their business partners: EuroChannels®, the first Pan-European IT conference, and CyberChannels®, the first IT ecommerce conference in the US market.
Outside of Global Touch, Denise has several passions, including global travel, gardening using plants she has discovered around the world in her business travels, the sport of rowing, career mentoring of U.C. Berkeley student athletes, and, when not traveling for business, early morning outings with her two Labrador retrievers, whom she can be found roaming the Berkeley, California hills, especially on foggy summer mornings.
“Denise has exceptional business acumen, understands the shifting market dynamics facing partners and further has a strength in authentically connecting with partners in the ecosystem. These skills allow her to bring the most relevant feedback into constructive advisory sessions to align growth initiatives.”
─ Brooke Cunningham, CMO LogicMonitor (also a client at Splunk and Qlik)
Jutta Bauer
Director, Data Intelligence
Jutta Bauer is the Director of Data Intelligence at Global Touch, Inc. Her field of expertise lies in capturing and delivering data-driven decisions by leveraging the power of partners for competitive advantage.
In her role, she develops data and metrics solutions to solve and proactively identify client challenges with partner revenue, readiness, and investments. She excels in distilling complex data into accessible formats and using visual narratives and dashboards to communicate key insights. She continues to refine Global Touch’s best practices and pilot emerging methodologies and tools to elevate our data intelligence capabilities.
She holds a Bachelor Professional in a trade and studied Econemics at Fachhochschule in Muenster, Germany.
Outside of the office Jutta is a passionate gardener. She likes to go on hikes and spend time with her husband, their two teenage daughters, two dogs, and their rabbit.