IT Wondrous Women™ recognizes two leaders who are setting a new pace to empower the seismic shift to the new “business as usual”...

May 5, 2021 • 2 Minute Read


IT Wondrous Women™ recognizes two innovative leaders who are empowering the seismic shift to the new “business as usual”. These women are setting a new pace for success!

Global Touch, Inc.® continues to spotlight leaders from around the world in its IT Wondrous Women™ blog series. This week’s spotlight features two razor-sharp leaders who are redefining “business as usual” through a seismic shift to work seamlessly from anywhere, over any network, and on multiple devices. Please meet:

  • Christine Linthacum, Principal APN Product Manager, Amazon Web Services (USA)

  • Marion Ryan, Vice President, Alliances & Channel Ecosystem APJ, ServiceNow (Singapore)

Both of these innovative, cutting-edge, exceptional leaders are consistently driving transformational success.

Please join us in congratulating Christine and Marion, and we look forward to watching their successful journeys continue.

Keep building your own unique and wondrous journey!

Denise Sangster
President & CEO, Global Touch, Inc.

(P.S. If you have missed any of the 80+ 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 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 in the digital, consumption-driven economy.

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.

  • Anne McClelland, Vice President, XaaS Channel Optimization Research, TSIA (USA)

  • Bridget Bisnette, President, Bisnette GTM Services (USA)

  • Brooke Cunningham, Area Vice President, Global Partner Marketing & Experience, Splunk (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)

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

  • Catherine Heilemann, Director & Master Coach, The Salary Coach (Australia)

  • Catriona Walkerden, National Marketing Lead, Logicalis Australia (Australia)

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

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

  • Cheryln Chin, Vice President, 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, Senior Vice President of Sales - North Central Region, Sirius Computer Solutions (USA)

  • 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 Sangster, President & Chief Executive Officer, Global Touch, Inc (USA)

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

  • Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville (USA)

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

  • Falguni Desai, Sabbatical (USA)

  • 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 Mantis, Head of Cisco Strategic Alliance, Optus (Australia)

  • 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)

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

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

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

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

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

  • Julie Hens, Vice President, 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, Senior Vice President, Demand Generation, UiPath (USA)

  • Kathy Ameche, Vice President Executive Partner, Gartner Inc (USA)

  • Kavita May, Senior Vice President, Planning & Operations, Global Technology Distribution Council (USA)

  • Kerri Lampard, APJC Partner Architecture Sales and Engineering Director, Cisco APJC (Singapore)

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

  • Kerry Wright, EMEA & APAC Channel Director, SugarCRM (UK)

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

  • Lisa Fitzpatrick, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Grapevine Health (USA)

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

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

  • Maggie Morrison, Business Development Director, Hi55 Ventures (UK)

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

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

  • Michelle Woodward Hodges, Vice President, Worldwide Channels, GitLab, Inc. (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)

  • Pauline Tng, Head of Channels, APAC, Splunk (Singapore)

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

  • Rebecca Carr, Senior Vice President, 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, Senior Director, Recurring Value Partner Programs, Cisco Systems (USA)

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

  • Stacey Beer, Head of Marketing, APJ, Riverbed Technology (Australia)

  • Stanimira Koleva, Senior Vice President & General Manager Asia Pacific and Japan, Here Technologies (Singapore)

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

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

  • Tatyana Kanzaveli, Chief Executive Officer, Open Health Network (USA)

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

  • Tina Nolte, Vice President Product, Spectro Cloud (USA)

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

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

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

  • Wendy Komadina, Head of AWS Partner Programs, Asia Pacific, Amazon Web Services (Australia)

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