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.
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 […]
Gigi Schumm
As SVP of Worldwide Sales of ThreatQuotient, Gigi Schumm is responsible for the revenue growth and driving global channel strategy. Gigi brings over two decades of experience leading high-performing sales and services organizations, spanning commercial sales, services, channels, alliances, business development and operations. Prior to ThreatQuotient, Gigi served as VP and General […]
Teresa Carlson
About Teresa Carlson
2018 Recipient
Teresa Carlson is one of the most highly-regarded and recognized sales and business leader in the technology industry. She is the vice president for Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector business. Prior to working for Amazon, Ms. Carlson served as Microsoft’s Vice President of Federal Government business.
Since starting AWS’s public […]
Keri Shull
About Keri Shull
2018 Women in Sales Leadership Recipient
Ranked as one of the top teams in the DC Metro area, Keri Shull and her team sold 321 Homes in 2017 and has sold over $2 Billion in real estate.
Keri and her team offer several unique Guarantee Programs that reduce risk for clients. Unlike the […]
Mary Beth Cockerham
About Mary Beth Cockerham
2017 Women in Sales Leadership Recipient
As Deltek Vice President of Sales, Ms. Cockerham leads the sales teams responsible for all new member acquisition for Deltek’s GovWin IQ, offering business intelligence to companies pursuing public sector sales. She is also responsible for the Global Sales Development teams. She joined Deltek as […]
Paul Smith
About Paul Smith
2017 Recipient
Paul Smith joined Red Hat in 2004 to oversee the sales, marketing, consulting, channels and strategic planning of the Government Business unit. With more than 20 years of experience marketing key technologies within the government marketplace, Paul has a track record of successfully selling software solutions to government agencies and […]
