WIA Global Summit 2023

Jay McBain is one of the most visible and respected thought leaders in the global channel ecosystem. Named Global Channel Influencer of the Year by Channel Partners Magazine, Top 40 Under Forty by the Business Review, as well as numerous channel magazines top thought leadership lists, he is often sought out for industry guidance and future trends. He has spent his 29-year career in various executive channel sales, marketing, and strategy roles within IBM, Lenovo, Autotask, ChannelEyes, and Forrester. Jay is chief analyst at Canalys - the world's leading research firm with a distinct focus on channels, partnerships, alliances, and ecosystems.

Tina's expertise in security, outsourcing and cloud has positioned her as a sales and channel fixture in the Global Technology Channel. Prior to joining Quantexa, Tina was Appgate’s Senior VP/Global Channels and Alliances, where her expertise in security applied directly to the company’s strategic development initiatives. Prior to Appgate, she was Senior VP/Global Channels and Strategic Alliances with Cryptzone and Dimension Data's GM/VP Cloud Services Business. She was Nirvanix's VP/Worldwide Sales and Marketing and held Senior Management roles at Terremark, where she helped guide the team from $400,000 in annual sales to an eventual acquisition by Verizon for $1.4 billion. She's held senior positions at NetGravity, SAS, Sybase and CSC, and as an independent consultant, she was passionate about empowering start-up technology organizations to increase revenue, monetize intellectual property and secure funding. Tina is a public speaker, a published author, and is frequently asked to present at industry security and indirect sales events. She serves on Advisory Boards for Dark Cryptonite, Channel Partners Online, Cloud Girls and is past executive member of CompTIA Talent and Diversity board. Tina is a proud founding member of Women in Alliances and on the Board of Managers for the Service Club of Chicago, a 127 year-old women’s philanthropic organization.

Sandy Carter is a leading voice in technology, social media, and web3/metaverse who has been recognized as top AI influencer per Onalytica. Her mission is to onboard the world onto the decentralized web by building blockchain based identity platforms. Her previous role was at AWS, where she was a VP, creating and growing businesses in emerging tech with AI, blockchain, and AR/VR. She was also a General Manager at IBM covering Watson AI and a Silicon Valley start-up founder. Sandy Carter is also Board Member at Altair, an AI company, Chairman of the board for the non-profit organization Girls in Tech and a past member of Diversity Community at the World Economic Forum and the founder of ‘Unstoppable Women of Web3’ as well as a founding member of ‘Blockchain Friends Forever’ (BFF). She joined the first ringing of the bell on NASDAQ in the metaverse. She has won numerous awards including 2023 Crunchbase Influential Women in Sales List, 2023 CRN Channel Chief, 100 Women of the Future, Top 100 Global Thought Leader by Awards Magazine, Top 150 Business Transformational Leaders, a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Top 115 Most Inspirational Women of Web3/Metaverse, 100 Women Davos, Two Lovies Awards for Best Metaverse HQ, Top 14 Edge Leader, Federal 100 Award Winner, CRN Channel Chief, and a member of Fortune Most Powerful Women. What Sandy loves about Partnerships: “I love creating a win-win value for both parties' customers!”

Dianna has brought leading services and technologies to market throughout her career. From co-founding an explosive-growth financial services firm that changed the way individuals invest today, to leading an employee engagement technology platform to become the de facto standard for the Fortune 500, to being recognized in 2021 as one of the 56 most inspirational women in business, Dianna attributes these successes to fundamentally understanding the power of partnerships. She is excited to be a part of the burgeoning conversation around Ecosystems, since partnerships and alliances have always been essential to her revenue growth strategies. Dianna believes that the power of ecosystems in a digital world represents the next greatest opportunity for tech companies to scale revenue growth exponentially.

Vince Menzione is a highly accomplished business leader with a strong focus on helping technology organizations achieve exceptional results through successful partnerships. With a wealth of experience in transformative journeys, Vince has successfully led business transformations, including helping take a startup public and spearheading a Golden Gate Capital turnaround. During his impressive nine-year tenure as a General Manager at Microsoft, Vince played a pivotal role in leading a $4.6 billion Ecosystem during the transition to the cloud. Subsequently, he has collaborated with leading technology organizations to attain top co-sell status and execute channel turnarounds, resulting in "Partner of the Year" accolades for both himself and his clients. As the visionary founder of Ultimate Partner, Vince is passionately driving the movement towards Cloud GTM and Ecosystem Led Growth during this Decade of the Ecosystem. His mission is to empower organizations to thrive in the ever-evolving technological landscape.

As a former expert in the partnering arena and having had 5 books published (Intelligent Business Alliances, Fast Alliances, Measuring the Value of Partnering, Partner the new face of Leadership, Dynamic Leadership) and teaching exec education at Caltech for 24 years, I applied a PFOR approach to partnering in my consulting. Once I merged my consulting firm with Vantage Partners LLC, we combined our IP, and I included their expertise in ‘Conflict Resolution applying the Value Based approach to Negotiation’ as described in their famous books, Getting to Yes, and Difficult Conversations in our consulting. When I decided to leave the arena of consulting, I sold my final shares to Vantage Partners LLC, and created endowments at my high school in South Africa and at my law school and business school in California for women who had an interest in partnering and alliances. In 2018 I created and funded a public charity 501C3 called ‘Exceptional Women Alliance’, whose mission is to enable HIGH LEVEL women to reach their dreams. I adapted my partnering skills to peer to peer mentoring and off we went. We are now 130 women leaders from all over North America. What Larraine loves about partnerships: “Collaboration is a risk mitigator and speed accelerator…if you are siloed into your own world you will miss it all. Partnering on every level will ensure that you have a good shot at being current!

Lyndsay is the Author of Top Down Culture, Speaker, Award Winning Coach, Founder of ‘Heartbeat for Hire’, and Host of a Top 10% Globally Ranked podcast. She leverages her 25+ years in Corporate America leading large sales teams to transform leadership as we know it. Along the way, Lyndsay has immersed herself in personal branding and now teaches two separate workshops on that very topic - The Sell Me Your Story Workshop and Hone Your Voice with LinkedIn.   What Lyndsay loves about Partnerships:  “Partnership is the taking the best of what each company has to offer and making it even better.”

Christine Bongard is the CEO of The WIT Network and is the main spokesperson for the organization. She has led Women in Technology organizations for fifteen years. She regularly speaks on behalf of The WIT Network at events and conferences. Her job is to see that the mission and passion of The WIT Network is carried out. The WIT Network is a recognized strategic partner supporting companies in expanding representation, elevating impact and increasing engagement of women in the workplace that fuels better business results. She also leads the global community currently consisting of 11,000 members in 76 countries. What Christine loves about partnerships: “Strategic partnerships can also help you maintain an edge over your competition. Partners make more possible!”

Mike Nevin is a highly experienced international strategic alliance consultant, coach and author (The Strategic Alliance Handbook – A Practitioners Guide and The Strategic Alliance Fieldbook – The Art of Agile Alliances which are recommended reading on MBA courses throughout the world).  Mike was the founding Chairman of ASAP in Europe (ASAP is the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals) which he launched in March 2002, and more recently ABP. Mike’s seminars are packed full of case study insights from the companies with whom he has worked closely over the last 17 years including: IBM, HP, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Capgemini, DXC, Atos, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, EY, KPMG, OpenText, Vodafone, Starbucks, BT, Computacenter, Rolls Royce, KLM, Kuehne & Nagle, TNT Logistics, Micro Focus, AstraZeneca and McAfee.

At the beginning of her career, as founder and CEO of her own experiential marketing agency, she grew the company from zero to $5M in Services revenue before her first merger/acquisition. She went on to lead an SAP consulting company through to acquisition before transitioning to marketing leadership roles in B2B tech startups, including Oracle Eloqua where she spent her days building pipeline for 1,100 sales reps for three years. She also held leadership roles at Nexj Systems and Piano Software prior to joining Canadian tech success story Vena Solutions in 2020, mere months before the pandemic started. As Vena’s Chief Marketing & Ecosystem Officer, Allison is responsible for driving finance-led transformation and elevating the strategic office of finance through the combined power of Vena’s product, partners and community.

A Denmark native, and global citizen based in LA, Ann has 25+ years of experience in the corporate world working with technology, sustainability, and purpose. After 20 years at SAP, and 2 years at Wood plc, she is now working with EY as a Senior Sustainability and Climate Advisor. As the Co-Founder of UN SDG Ambition, together with the UN Global Compact, she has dedicated her life to serving as a trailblazer for the UN SDGs, and continue to support these goals, in addition to a number of other UN initiatives and non-profit organisations.

Asher Mathew is the CEO of Partnership Leaders, the leading community for partnerships, alliances, channel, business development and ecosystem professionals and executives. He has deep experience in sales, marketing, customer success and business development / partnerships in venture and revenue (bootstrapped) businesses. His previous stops are Demandbase (via acquisition of DemandMatrix), LeanData (Raised Series C), Avalara (IPO) and Nodus Technologies (Acquired by EVO Payments).

Recognised by ComputerWeekly’s Most Influential Women in UK IT and the Women in Technology Awards, Daryn speaks on a range of topics in digital technology, business development and diversity. As an active startup mentor, Board member and angel investor, Daryn is skilled at building relationships to produce value and influence direction. Daryn is highly skilled in building relationships at senior levels within organisations to ensure customer satisfaction, maximise future business potential and develop multiple business channels. This has included the development of new business models within existing operations in order to respond to volatile global market conditions and changing industry imperatives. Commercially driven with achievements in turnarounds and mergers and acquisitions, Daryn excels at developing international teams within a culture of trust and inspiration.

Alexandra Dimian believes in individual talent and empowerment, both of which allow us to overcome obstacles and move forward -- a key ability in today's world and the world of tomorrow. As a trainer and coach, she is highly business minded and specialize in the human aspect of interpersonal business relationships. Together with the company All Positive, based in Paris, she develops women's leadership, especially in Tech through the best-selling training ' Self-marketing'. She also provides training in Design Thinking and Soft Skills such as Public speaking, assertiveness... Based in Paris but operating worldwide, she has an international background and speaks 5 languages, including French, English and Dutch, which she speaks fluently and has previous background in IT as a finance manager. Her motto is: "Together, we go further".