Channel People on the Move: Verizon, AWS, GoTo, Ingram Micro, Intelisys, More
We also have moves at Aryaka, AT&T, Equinix, Lumen, Google Cloud and more.
The door at Verizon swung open to promote one new employee and wish another farewell.
Sarah Marsh talked with our James Anderson about leaving the carrier for a yet-to-be-named new opportunity. During her tenure, most recently as director, channel strategy and sales enablement, Marsh helped to expand partners’ product porftolios and tackle channel conflict.
Meantime, Brian Gault accepted a promotion at Verizon from channel partner manager to national partner manager.
Jarrod Councill (left) joined the Comcast Business/Masergy team as emerging business channel manager. He brings expertise in cloud solutions and working with MSPs and VARs. He’s an alum of Five9, ScanSource and Genesys.
Then there’s Caron Hay (right), promoted to inside sales partner manager. Her old title was senior partner services coordinator.
Brian Siconolfi, COO and partner at Hypercore Networks, became SVP of service delivery at Nitel when the latter bought the former.
His career in the industry goes back nearly 20 years when he started as a service delivery specialist at XO Communications.
Austin Holverson just got promoted at Nice CXOne. His new title is RVP of partner sales.
Holverson is a 12-year channel veteran with experience at Telarus, CarrierSales, Vonage and Sumo Communications.
Brittany Caito (right) is the new senior national partner manager at Nextiva, the business communications collaboration software provider. Caito is well-known in the channel for her roles at Comcast Business and AppSmart, as well as Windstream and various companies it bought.
Meantime, Melissa Rubsam (left) got a promotion from the company. She’s now senior manager of channel marketing programs.
That there is Carlos Da Palma, who joined the AWS team as partner development manager.
Based in London, Da Palma spent the last four years as channel account director at Bluebeam.
Amber Hafterson took up a new job as national partner manager at NetAlly, the network tester and Wi-Fi analysis company.
You may recognize her from Neat, Mitel, Forcepoint, Sungard AS or CDW.
MSP360, which provides backup and IT management solutions fo MSPs and IT departments, looked to Katie Bach as its new global director of channel operations. Her job is to lead the next growth phase for the company’s channel partner program.
Her previous job was VP of branding at PartnerEdge, the channel strategy and marketing consultancy.
Former Telarus senior vice president Amy Bailey (left) just wrapped up a seven-year run at the tech solutions brokerage, venturing out on her own. More details to come. Her last day with the TSB was Aug. 19.
Read James Anderson’s conversation with Bailey.
On the flip side, Telarus promoted Kelly Hoyle (upper right) to senior director of customer success management and hired Heather Bielecki as VP of marketing operations and digital marketing. Her last job was a similar role at Qumu Corp.
Drew Nadler is new to Momentum Telecom as the managed network and UC provider’s senior director of international carrier relations.
Previously he was with Hypercore Networks for a year-and-a-half, and then Nitel after the latter bought the former. He’s also a Verizon alumnus.
Catherine Solazzo, who spent 17 years at IBM in channel marketing, is now the chief marketing officer at Syntax, the enterprise cloud solutions provider.
She spent a year in between those jobs, first at Tech Data, and then TD Synnex after the two distribution behemoths merged.
Channel partners know Lori Cornmesser for her various stops at Infoblox, Ixia and Juniper Networks. Most recently she built the first partner program for security vendor CyCognito.
Now she moves on to Deepwatch, the managed detection and response provider. She is the company’s new senior VPP of global channel sales and alliances.
Here‘s the full scoop.
Level AI, which provides artificial intelligence solutions for call centers, named Karen Bowman its VP of channel and alliances.
We bet you know Karen from Ujet and/or Five 9, where she held VP and senior director of channel positions, respectively.
Longtime CenturyLink channel exec Lisa Miller landed at Equinix, the data center and colocation provider. Her title is senior VP of platform alliances.
In between CenturyLink and Equinix, Miller served more than a year and a half as president and COO for consultancy Spearhead Advisors.
Read the glowing reviews people are giving Miller for the move.
Dan Tomaszewski’s promotion at Kaseya came not long after the company closed its highly scrutinized acquisition of Datto.
Tomaszewski is now executive VP of channel for the IT management software provider. It’s a promotion from SVP of channel and community. He is well-known for building Powered Services, the sales and marketing enablement platform.
Here’s the lowdown on what else Tomaszewski will be responsible for.
Anne Chow, CEO of AT&T Business, ended a storied career at the carrier with her retirement announcement last month.
Chow was the first woman of color to ever hold a chief executive position at AT&T. The channel advocate has also served on a variety of boards of directors, including the Girl Scouts and Asian American Justice Center.
Learn more about this pioneer’s career.
That’s Ron Burke, the new senior partner manager at Jenne, the cloud services brokerage. He serves the Central region of the U.S.
His previous career stops include Nextiva, Nitel, and most notably, 16 years at CDW.
Mayka Rosales-Peterson just took a new job with Intelisys, the tech services distributor.
As senior manager of partner marketing, one of her big responsibilities will be to evangelize the company’s revamped education and marketing platform.
You probably know Rosales-Peterson from AppSmart and Telesystem. You’ll get to know her even more if you read James Anderson’s article about her.
Cloud security and networking company Infoblox made two key personnel decisions.
First, it promoted Aric Ault (left), a veteran of the company of more than three years, to managing director, EMEA channel. He also spent 11 years at Cisco.
Next, it named Joe Gately (right) SVP of sales for the Americas. He joins the team from VergeSense, where he was CRO. Infoblox says Gately brings three decades of experience building sales, channel and other go-to-market teams.
After nearly 20 years at TPx Communications, Hilary Gadda (top right) surprised some in the channel by resigning, citing an “incredible 20-year journey” in a LinkedIn post. What’s next for one of the pioneers of Women in the Channel? (We trust she will tell us when the time is right.)
Our James Anderson caught up with her and chronicled her career.
Meantime, the company hired Ahmad Henderson (left) as a national channel sales manager and Jon Holsman (bottom right) as a channel manager supporting partners in the Midwest.
Lumen added Jaime Piñero (left) as channel sales director in the Southeast. He and his team will focus on managing strategic accounts and new opportunities.
It’s a promotion for Ben Engelstad, now solution support lead. His previous title was solution support engineer.
Cybersecurity vendor AttackIQ turned to John Brown, formerly of Menlo Security and LogRhythm, as its new head of global channel.
AttackIQ says the hiring of Brown will help with the sale of the company’s breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions through the channel.
Read our Q&A with Brown where he lays out what he thinks he brings to his new role.