IES Lifetime Achievement, Women in Sales Leadership, Entrepreneur Sales Leader, 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.
Jim Kelly
About Jim Kelly
2024 Recipient
Jim Kelly is the Senior Vice President, North America Federal Sales for Dell Technologies. He is responsible for supporting federal customers and their missions, providing the technology and expertise needed to transform and protect their data.
Jim was previously the Vice President for the United States Department of Defense and Intelligence business […]
Margo Edris
About Margo Edris
2024 Recipient
Margo Edris is a Regional Vice President of Sales at Salesforce. She leads a team of accomplished Sales professionals who partner with State and Local Governments across the Rocky Mountain Region to modernize Government services.
She also serves as a member of Chief, a private network that connects and supports the most […]
Chuck Ghoorah
About Chuck Ghoorah
2024 Recipient
Chuck Ghoorah is Co-founder and President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cvent. Chuck has been instrumental in building Cvent from a startup to a 4,800-person company. In his role, Chuck is responsible for global go-to-market strategy and execution. With over 25 years’ experience in high growth SaaS software, Chuck oversees […]
Reggie Aggarwal
About Reggie Aggarwal
2024 Recipient
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, a market-leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business […]
Gerilyn Horan
About Gerilyn Horan
2024 Recipient
Gerilyn Horan is the Vice President, Group Sales & Strategic Accounts at Hilton Worldwide Sales. She is responsible for driving the growth of the group segment for all Hilton brands and oversees a total account management approach to Hilton’s largest customers.
Gerilyn has had a 30+ year career in leadership roles in […]
Joe Ayers
About Joe Ayers
2023 Recipient
Joe Ayers is the Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Industries for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In this role, Mr. Ayers oversees all aspects of the business, including sales, marketing, customer experience, services and integration of new acquisitions.
Mr. Ayers has been a leader at HPE for more than eight years, […]
Susan Shapero
About Susan Shapero
2023 Recipient
Susan Shapero is the Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Public Sector for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In this role, Ms. Shapero oversees all aspects of the business, including sales, marketing, customer experience, services, government relations and integration of new acquisitions.
Ms. Shapero has held leadership positions at HPE for over […]
Alyssa Merwin Henderson
About Alyssa Merwin Henderson
2023 Recipient
Alyssa Merwin Henderson is the global Vice President of LinkedIn Sales Solutions, one of the company’s fastest growing lines of business. In her role, Alyssa leads the global sales organization to help companies around the world engage with LinkedIn’s community of nearly 822 million members, connecting buyers and sellers to […]
Mayssa Haddad
About Mayssa Haddad
2023 Recipient
Mayssa Haddad is a Senior Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) within the Public Sector Partner Programs team. In this role, Mayssa leads ISV and CoSell programs for the AWS Public Sector Organization, driving critical transformations of government, education, healthcare, and non-profit institutions globally. Mayssa has been part of the Programs […]
Tien Wong
About Tien Wong
2023 Recipient
Tien Wong is a technology entrepreneur, CEO, and angel investor. He is Chairman & CEO of Opus8, Inc., a private investment and strategic advisory firm specializing in raising capital for alternative investment fund managers, as well as promising tech companies. He is also Chairman of Lumious, an ed tech company which […]
