IT Wondrous Women™ salutes International Women’s Day with four trailblazing leaders who are rising together to reshape the IT world…

March 8, 2021 • 2 Minute Read

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Global Touch's IT Wondrous Women™ celebrates International Women's Day and its #ChooseToChallenge theme with the recognition of four trailblazing, innovative, and cutting-edge leaders from the Silicon Valley to Australia! These women continuously push the boundaries of possibilities to deliver transformational change wrapped around partner and customer success.

IT Wondrous Women™ celebrates 2021 International Women’s Day and its #ChooseToChallenge theme with the recognition of four trailblazing, innovative, and cutting-edge leaders from the Silicon Valley to Australia! These women have continuously challenged themselves to deliver transformational change wrapped around partner and customer success. International Women’s Day is about women rising together to reshape the IT world, and our four IT Wondrous Women are doing just that!

Global Touch® is featuring four IT Wondrous Women in this week’s special edition of our blog series. These women are:

  • Brooke Cunningham, Area VP, Global Partner Marketing & Experience, Splunk (USA)

  • Carrie Mott, Head of Marketing & Sales Development Asia Pacific & Japan, Dynatrace (Australia)

  • Ingrid Burton, Chief Marketing Officer, Quantcast (USA)

  • Lisa Penn, Chief of Staff, Global Channel Marketing, SAP (USA)

All of these game-changing leaders are making a significant impact on the IT world through their prowess, intelligence, and transformational leadership, as well as their willingness to challenge success.

Please join us in congratulating Brooke, Carrie, Ingrid, and Lisa, and we look forward to watching their successful journeys continue.


Keep healthy and keep building your own unique and wondrous journey!

Denise Sangster
President & CEO, Global Touch, Inc.

(P.S. If you have missed any of the 50+ prior featured extraordinary women from IT Wondrous Women, please check out our website blog post and/or click here to subscribe to our blog.)

About IT Wondrous Women blog series.

The IT Wondrous Women blog series was created by Global Touch, Inc. and launched in mid-October 2020. It showcases top and emerging technology industry leaders from around the world, all of whom are women! Some of these women are well known in the IT industry while others have “roots” in the technology market with roles in corporate customers or non-profit organizations. Each has the same thing in common: they are driving game-changing success.

Each of these women are expanding the future of the IT industry and opportunities for women through their prowess, intelligence, and impact. They are also inspiring those who will stand on their shoulders.

All participants in this blog series answer the same set of questions, which provides a glimpse into their careers and backgrounds and, more importantly, what makes them such wondrous and inspirational leaders!

If you have missed any of our previous blog posts, they are available by clicking the links below.

  • Bridget Bisnette, SVP of Global Partner Sales, Riverbed Technology (USA)

  • Carissa Hughes, AWS Alliance Manager, ANZ, Rackspace Technology (Australia)

  • Carol Ann McKeown, Global Lead of Regional and Channel Marketing, Viavi Solutions (USA)

  • Caroline Japic, Chief Marketing Officer, Kenna Security (USA)

  • Charlene Mowery, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Red Hat Public Sector (USA)

  • Cathy Conroy, Head of Alliances, Asia Pacific & Japan, Cohesity (Australia)

  • Cheryln Chin, VP, Global Partners & Alliances, UiPath (USA)

  • Claudia Romanini-Backus, Head of Enterprise & Productivity Partnerships, Facebook Reality Lab (USA)

  • Dianne Lapierre, Chief Information Officer, Absolute Software (Canada)

  • Debbie Dove Larson, SVP of Sales - North Central Region, Sirius Computer Solutions (USA)

  • Deborah Bannworth, SVP, Partner Alliances, Inside Sales, Maintenance Sales & Services, Sirius Computer Solutions (USA)

  • Debby Spaltmann, Founder and Executive Coach, I4I-Influence-for-Impact (Germany)

  • Denise Sangster, President & CEO, Global Touch, Inc (USA)

  • Elisabeth De Dobbeleer, VP, EMEAR Partner Lead, Cisco Systems (United Kingdom)

  • Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville (USA)

  • Esther Westerweele, Founder, LEF Marketing & Events (The Netherlands)

  • Harninder Bassi, Senior Director of Global Strategy and Planning, Rubrik, Inc. (USA)

  • Heather Clancy, Editorial Director, GreenBiz Group (USA)

  • Heather Tenuto, Chief Revenue Officer, Zift Solutions (USA)

  • Heidi Melin, Chief Marketing Officer, Workfront (USA)

  • Helen Ligonis, Strategic IT Sales and Channel Leader (Australia)

  • Hélène Draoulec, Director, Marketing Southern Europe and Sales Development EMEA, Yext (France)

  • Jennifer Pockell Dimas, Chief Marketing Officer, Qumu (USA)

  • Jo Peterson, Vice President of Cloud and Security Services, Clarify360 (USA)

  • Julia Chen, VP of Partner Transformation, Cisco Systems (USA)

  • Juliana Vida, Chief Technical Advisor (Public Sector), Splunk Inc. (USA)

  • Julie Hens, VP, Global Virtual Sales & Engineering, Cisco Systems (USA)

  • Julie Knight-Ludvigson, Chief Marketing Officer, Unit4 (USA)

  • Karen Platt, Co-Founder, One P Design (Australia)

  • Kathi Kaplan, SVP, Global Digital Marketing & Diversity & Inclusion, Qlik (USA)

  • Kavita May, SVP, Planning & Operations, Global Technology Distribution Council (USA)

  • Kerry Desberg, Chief Marketing Officer, Impartner Software (USA)

  • Lesley Andrews, VP of Strategic Alliances for North America, CompuCom (Canada)

  • Lisa Fitzpatrick, Founder & CEO, Grapevine Health (USA)

  • Liz Lawson, Senior Partner Field Enablement Lead - APAC, Amazon Web Services (Australia)

  • Marianne Calder, Global Head of Inside Sales, BT (United Kingdom)

  • Melissa Andrews, Solutions Engineering Manager, Army / COCOMs, Splunk (USA)

  • Monica White, Director of Public Marketing, Kenna Security (Canada)

  • Nancy Ridge, Founder & President, Ridge Innovative & Co-founder, Alliance of Channel Women (USA)

  • Nancy Thomas, Global Head of Video Collaboration Channel Development, Logitech (USA)

  • Neetu Shaw, Digital, Data & AI Leadership, Accenture Applied Intelligence (USA)

  • Raen Lim, Group Vice President, South Asia & Korea, Splunk (Singapore)

  • Rebecca Carr, SVP, Platform and Growth, SmartRecruiters (USA)

  • Ruma Balasubramanian, Managing Director, Google Cloud - Southeast Asia (Singapore)

  • Sabrina Lin, Senior Advisor to the President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)

  • Sandra Flinders, Sr Director, Recurring Value Partner Programs, Cisco Systems (USA)

  • Sandy Salty, Chief Marketing Officer, Trace3 (USA)

  • Stanimira Koleva, SVP & GM Asia Pacific and Japan, Here Technologies (Singapore)

  • Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, President & CEO at U.S. Vote Foundation and the Overseas Vote Foundation (Germany)

  • Tara Ridley, VP Alliances & Channels ANZ, Salesforce (Australia)

  • Tatyana Kanzaveli, CEO, Open Health Network (USA)

  • Tiffany Wright, Education Director, Microsoft Australia (Australia)

  • Tina Nolte, VP Product, Spectro Cloud (USA)

  • Vicki Batka, VP, Partner Sales APJC, Cisco Systems (Singapore)

  • Vicky Reddington, Co-Founder, Amplified Group (United Kingdom)

  • Wendy Bahr, Chief Commercial Officer, Rubrik, Inc. (USA)

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