Cloud Girls Names 2026 Cloud Girls Rising Award Winners

Cloud Girls Rising Awards Honor 6 Women to Watch in Next-Gen Technology Cloud Girls Recognizes Visionary, Trailblazers and Rising Stars in 11th Annual Awards LAS VEGAS, April 15, 2026 — Cloud Girls,...
Cloud Girls Seeks Nominations for 11th Annual ‘Women to Watch’ Awards

Cloud Girls Seeks Nominations for 11th Annual ‘Women to Watch’ Awards

Applications for Awards Honoring Female Cloud Evangelists Will Be Accepted Through February 20, 2026 ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025  — Cloud Girls, a not-for-profit community for women in...
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Meet Cloud Girls Rising Visionary Award Winner: Jo Peterson

Cloud Girls is proud to spotlight our founder, Jo Peterson, recipient of the 2025 Visionary Award, for her enduring impact on women in technology. Long before “Women in Tech” became a mainstream...
Cloud Girls Rising Trailblazer Award winner Nicole Steele

Meet Cloud Girls Rising Star Award Winner: Nicole Steele

Nicole Steele has spent her career successfully helping business customers and partners navigate the shift to cloud and next-gen technologies.  She currently is serving as the Senior Director of...
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Cloud Girls Recognizes Visionary, Trailblazers and Rising Stars in Tenth Annual Awards

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 26, 2025 — Cloud Girls, a not-for-profit female Next-Gen Tech Think Tank, announced today the winners of the tenth annual Cloud Girls Rising: Women to Watch Awards. The...
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Meet Cloud Girls Rising Star Award Winner: Megan Melara

Megan has been working in the cloud technology space for three years now, focusing on cybersecurity and infrastructure as a service delivered in the cloud. Early on, she became passionate about...

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Cloud Girls Organization Names New Board Leadership for 2020

“Cloud Girls is excited to bring new directors to its board,” said Cloud Girls Co-founder Jo Peterson, vice president of cloud services for Clarify360. “It’s great to see our organization’s succession planning at work. Both Natalia and Tatiana have been significant contributors to Cloud Girls either as co-chairs or as active members, and we’re excited to promote them each to the role of director to drive our organization forward.”

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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.