Meet Cloud Girls Rising Star Award Winner MeiLee

Sep 23, 2020

MeiLee Langley,  Senior Director of Channel Marketing at Nextiva, was recognized by  Cloud Girls, in collaboration with the Alliance of Channel Women, as a Rising Star in the fifth annual Cloud Girls Rising “Women to Watch” awards announced in May of 2020.

The Cloud Girl Rising award was created to honor women in the telecom and IT channel who have shown leadership and innovation in the emerging cloud space as well as to inspire more women to step forward and follow their example.

Langley was honored as a Rising Star, a female up-and-comer in the cloud community who has shown initiative in advancing cloud and next-generation technology solutions for her organization, customers and the industry.

Cloud Girls is pleased to share more about Langley in this edited excerpt from her award application.

Share one cloud related success that qualifies you to win this award.

 Earlier this year I launched something that has been a vision of mine for about 5 years. I noticed that with the shift to cloud, many of the legacy telecom/IT partners are desperately seeking out education and tools to establish and promote themselves as thought leaders ahead of the trends, but many don’t know how to take this knowledge and execute/market it in an effective way.

I wanted to solve this gap by building the industry’s most comprehensive Demand Gen Suite for partners, which I believe I’ve achieved with CoNEXtion. CoNEXtion is a cloud based end to end Demand Gen Suite specifically designed for legacy IT/telecom partners. (I believe) we’ve developed something never before seen with CoNEXtion; I’m thrilled Nextiva is now providing the best possible solution for partners to easily create end-to-end marketing strategies, do their jobs more effectively than ever before, and effectively position themselves as true thought leaders.

It utilizes quality lead syndication and easy to use demand generation tools to provide partners with the ability to seamlessly create marketing strategies that uncover and manage leads from the top of the funnel to close of a sale.

 About the Editor

Tamara Prazak is the National Channel Director for AppGate and the chair of the Cloud Girls Communications Work Group.

 

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