Helping women in Partnerships, Channel, and Alliances build their careers
Executive Committee
Chair
Stephanie Kee
Identifying the exceptional skills that women in partnerships have, along with a few awesome ladies, Stephanie co-founded Women in Alliances.
Stephanie is the of Chair of WIA, an Alliance Manager at Oracle NetSuite, an advisor for a Causal AI company, and a Partnerships consultancy.
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Her goal is to help women build and improve their Partnership skills, and hopes that in the near future they will have an equal opportunity to succeed in the workplace.
Head of Operations
Carrie White
As a Manager, Partner Sales at Vena Solutions, Carrie owns the success of 10+ partners, guiding their strategy, ongoing improvement, and execution. Carrie is known for her ability to execute on strategy and do so in her own unique way, re: the three C's of me: Collaborative, Creative, Challenger!
Carrie lives outside Toronto Canada with her husband, dog Dallas, and has two girls 22 and 20 who are already a force of womanhood unto their own!
Head of Strategic Growth
Lisa Blalock
Lisa Blalock is the Global Partner and Strategic Alliances Manager at EDB, whose enterprise-class software and services harness the full power of Postgres, the world's leading database.
She has had extensive experience in direct sales, the partner ecosystem, services, and development.
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Lisa’s passion is to create relationships within the ecosystem that drive value and innovation within the overall market. Lisa has held previous roles within companies such as IBM, Capgemini, and Nutanix.
Chapter Lead - London
Tina Valand
Tina is a multi-award winning Strategic Alliances Technology Director with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry on large scale digital transformations.
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She has been heading Generative AI solutions with Microsoft, AWS and Google.
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She has strong business development professional skills in technology transformations, IT strategy, agile test management and regulatory compliance (GDPR).
Organisational Committee
Digital & Chapter Lead - Paris
Elise Carbone
Senior Director, Global Partners and Alliances at Deltek.
Elise is leading the EMEA and APAC partner teams and responsible for the success of the partner ecosystem in these regions.
Mentoring her team, guiding collaborative initiatives and fostering strong partnership is her main focus.
Volunteering for Women in Alliances is her way to give back and support Women in tech.
Mentoring Programme
Kristen Edwardsen
Kristen has over 30 years of direct and indirect sales experience, with an emphasis on Data, Analytics, Cloud and Digital Transformation.
She is an accomplished and driven Channel Sales Executive with achievements in multiple industries focused on building Partnerships with major accounts, combining technologies and selling value added solutions to clients.
Head of Chapters
Doreen Marchetti
Doreen is a fractional executive helping companies create partnerships, secure sponsorships and build sales teams.
In her 40 year IT career spanning fortune 50, SMB and start-up companies, Doreen has led teams around the globe generating sales with Alliances and reselling with Channel Partners.
Finance
Liz McGlogan
Alliance Professional at Moody’s
Liz leads Insurance Partnerships at Moody’s, the global integrated risk assessment firm.
She is a strategic alliance professional who builds programs that span services, technology and sales partnerships with a focus on B2B software. Working with partners to open new markets, creating joint propositions that bring value to customers and enabling partners to be successful.
Annual Summit
Zhenya Winter
Head of Global Marketing – Financial Messaging at Bottomline
Zhenya has more than 20 years of experience in the Financial Services sector, specialising in payments over the last 12 years. Key areas of focus within payments messaging, orchestration, and connectivity include real-time domestic and cross-border payments and ISO 20022.
Zhenya is an ambassador for the charitable community Women of Fintech and sits on the board for Women in Alliances, is a member of the prestigious 100 Women in Finance and is a member of the Innovate
Finance Global Women in Fintech Power list 2022.
Chapter Leads
Stockholm
Petra Dolejsova
Partner Program Director at Sinch.
Petra has over 15 years of experience working in a global environment, specialising in establishing and fostering valuable partnerships. She possesses strong expertise in business development within the realm of technology transformation, crafting partnership strategies, and managing Partner Programs. She has a passion for collaboration, cultivating meaningful relationships, and driving positive change.
Petra is based in Stockholm, having previously held roles in London and Prague with companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, HCLTech, and TietoEVRY.
Chicago
Julie Kolsen Diehl
Julie has spent most of her career as part of the B2B technology channel. Julie has experience running partner marketing and field marketing teams and currently lead the Global Partner Operations team for insightsoftware. Julie has managed partner programs, events, promotions, rebates, partner enablement and sales incentive programs.
Julie has vendor and program management experience along with a detailed eye on process, structure and reporting. Julie is always trying to think of creative ways to engage resellers and end-customers in order to reward and measure behaviors. Julie enjoys turning challenges or inefficiencies into new programs and strategies to better support the organization.
Singapore
Eelee Lua
Eelee is a seasoned business leader in FinTech, Regulatory Technology, and Risk Mitigation in the APAC region.
She is a strong believer that strategic partnerships and relationship building are essential in achieving sustainable growth for any organisations.
New York
Danielle Simon
Danielle Simon has over 13 years of experience in all facets of Global Alliances, Partnerships and Channel Sales in the SaaS space working for startup companies in the data, cloud, marketing and security ecosystems. Before embarking on her tech career, she was a successful public relations and marketing professional for a decade.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, she still resides in the NY Metro area with her family. Danielle loves to travel and spend time with friends and family around the globe. She joined Women in Alliances to co-lead the NY Chapter because of a fierce desire to elevate women in the industry and do so at a non-profit organization with global reach and amazingly talented professionals.
Previous Chairs
Women in Alliances was founded in 2020 by a number of women from Alliance Best Practice, you can find out all our previous committe members here.
Daryn Edgar
Co-founder / Previous Chair
Mike Nevin
Co-founder / Previous Chair