IES Lifetime Achievement, Women in Sales Leadership, and Rising Sales Star Award Recipients
The IES recognizes a sales visionary, leader and world-class executioner of sales excellence each year with its Lifetime Achievement Award. The IES also recognizes a high-achieving Women in Sales leader each year as well.
Qualifications for the Lifetime Achievement Award include a substantive career in leading sales at the highest level at major brands, a legacy of protégé success, and commitment to the sales profession.
The Woman in Sales Leadership award criteria may include sales leadership positions held at top brand companies, exemplary leadership or achievement in sales, service to the sales professional, and performance.
Jennifer Chronis
About Jennifer Chronis
2022 Recipient
Jennifer Chronis is the Vice President, Public Sector for VMware. She was previously the Senior Vice President of Public Sector at Verizon where she lead the team of professionals dedicated to partnering with Verizon’s federal, state, local, education and public safety customers to deliver innovative technology solutions and services.
Prior to […]
Dave Rey
About Dave Rey
2022 Recipient
Dave Rey is the President of Sales for Global Public Sector at Salesforce. He is responsible for driving the continued growth and success of the sales team that supports all public sector business within North America (NA), EMEA & APAC.
Prior to joining Salesforce in 2013, Mr. Rey worked at Oracle […]
Lauryn Scott
About Lauryn Scott
2022 Recipient
Lauryn Scott is a dynamic sales leader at Cvent, a cloud-based platform that offers software solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of an event. Specifically on the Hospitality Cloud, Lauryn is a sales manager who effectively coaches Account Managers to sell software solutions to hoteliers to grow their group and transient […]
Courtney Bromley
About Courtney Bromley
2021 Women in Sales Leadership Recipient
Courtney Bromley has been with IBM for 30 years serving federal, state and local government agencies. In her current role, she manages the teams dedicated to serving the U.S. Federal Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury, US Courts, State, USAID, the International Banks and the Federal […]
Toni Townes-Whitley
About Toni Townes-Whitley
2021 Recipient
Toni Townes-Whitley is President, U.S. Regulated Industries at Microsoft Corporation, a technology company that enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. In this role Ms. Townes-Whitley leads Microsoft’s U.S. sales team and manages a P&L of approximately $11 billion across the public sector […]
Veronica Poissant
About Veronica Poissant
2021 Recipient
Veronica Poissant exemplifies confidence, professionalism and resourcefulness. Throughout her 16 years in the industry, she has devoted her time to coaching and mentoring others to become exceptional public sector sales professional.
She leads by nurturing a fun, open and collaborative culture that is based on meritocracy, which inspires those who work […]
Andrew Bailey
About Andrew Bailey
2020 Recipient
Andrew Bailey’s background has paved the way for his success as an Account Executive at SAP NS2. After college, he served in the US Marine Corps for 4 years. Andrew then went on to enroll in NS2 Serves and SAP Sales Academy programs. After graduating from the SAP Sales Academy, […]
Craig Abod
About Craig Abod
2020 Recipient
Craig P. Abod is president and founder of Carahsoft Technology Corp., a Reston, Virginia-based firm that has become one the nation’s most respected and fastest growing Government-focused IT solutions providers. In founding Carahsoft, Abod combined his entrepreneurial spirit and 25+ years of experience in government sales, marketing and contract management […]
Tamara Greenspan
Tamara Greenspan is the Group Vice President for Public Sector Applications. She is responsible for a team of account executives that deliver software solutions for complex business problems. The team assists the Federal Government, the International Agency community and Canada with their digital transformation […]
Mark Testoni
About Mark Testoni
2019 Recipient
Mark Testoni is among the nation’s leading experts in the application of technology to solve problems in government and industry, especially in the U.S. national security space. With more than 20 years of technology industry experience, 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and 30 years of public sector management […]
