2025 CG Rising Award application deadline Feb 21, 2025

2025 Cloud Girls Rising Award Nominations Now Open

Self-nominations are encouraged. Winners will be announced at Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas on March 24-27, 2025. Deadline to submit entries is February 21, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Star Award Winner: JoLynn Hauser

JoLynn Hauser is a distinguished marketing leader with over two decades of experience in the cloud technology space, specializing in channel marketing and partner strategy. Throughout her career,...

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Star Award Winner: Diondria Brown

Diondria Brown, MBA, is a highly accomplished Senior TSB Program Manager at Five9 with extensive experience and contributions in the cloud technology space. Diondria has been instrumental in driving...

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Star Award Winner: Shannon Orr

Shannon Orr, a change-maker in the cloud technology space, commenced her journey at Avant in 2011 as the 6th employee. Progressing from an intern to Senior Director, she orchestrates a sales team...

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Trailblazer Winner: Debbie Uttecht

Debbie Uttecht is a distinguished Product and Partner Marketing Executive, currently working at Microsoft, renowned for her outstanding expertise in shaping innovative product strategies, fostering...

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Trailblazer Winner: Lisa McLin

Lisa McLin has over 21+ yrs. of experience in Technology industry, taking on roles in all areas of the business, from Accountant, Customer Delivery, Direct Sales Executive, Transformation leader,...

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Trailblazer Winner: Debbie Kestin Schildkraut

Debbie Kestin Schildkraut is the VP of Business Marketing for the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) dedicated to advancing industry expertise and best practices in B2B including elevating...

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Meet Sandra Glaser Cheek: Cloud Expert of the Month – February 2020

Cloud Girls is honored to have amazingly accomplished, professional women in tech as our members. We take every opportunity to showcase their expertise and accomplishments – promotions, speaking engagements, publications and more. Now, we are excited to shine a spotlight on one of our members each month.

Sandra Glaser Cheek has spent 20 years in partner sales and marketing roles working for technology companies like Ciena, VMWare, Brocade and Adobe. She is a global channel chief who is well-known for staying ahead of emerging trends with expertise in channel and partner sales, enablement and marketing. Whether it’s hardware infrastructure or software solutions, she knows how to blend traditional approaches with innovative strategies to help partners differentiate, drive demand and fuel sales growth.

Meet Jean O’Neill: Cloud Expert of the Month – January 2020

Cloud Girls is honored to have amazingly accomplished, professional women in tech as our members. We take every opportunity to showcase their expertise and accomplishments – promotions, speaking engagements, publications and more. Now, we are excited to shine a spotlight on one of our members each month.

January Cloud Expert of the Month is Jean O'Neill
Jean O’Neill, Vice President of Channel at Cyxtera, has over 20 years of technology industry experience with deep expertise within Channel.  She was instrumental in building the Channel Programs at Rackspace, Terremark/Verizon, and Involta.  Additionally, she has counseled, mentored and supplied Channel consulting to companies in their initial stages, laying proper foundations to insure successful Channel/Alliances programs.  O’Neill is an early and active member of Cloud Girls who are advocates dedicated to educating themselves and their stakeholders about the vast and dynamic cloud ecosystem.  She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Kennesaw State University.

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Meet Michelle Ruyle: Cloud Expert of the Month – November 2019

Cloud Girls is honored to have amazingly accomplished, professional women in tech as our members. We take every opportunity to showcase their expertise and accomplishments – promotions, speaking engagements, publications and more. Now, we are excited to shine a spotlight on one of our members each month.

November Cloud Expert of the Month is Michelle Ruyle

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Meet Michelle Hyde: Cloud Expert of the Month – October 2019

October Cloud Expert of the Month is Michelle Hyde
Michelle Hyde, president and founder of Hyde Group, has been serving Pacific Northwest enterprises with excellence for more than 20 years. Her history of applying the right technology at the right time to critical business issues that clients face has propelled the Hyde Group’s success and advanced its reputation as a true client advocate.