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.
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 […]
Art Richer
About Art Richer
2016 Recipient
Art Richer spent 18-years at public sector distributor immixGroup starting as Vice President in 1998 and culminating in the president and CEO position where he led its successful sale to Arrow Electronics in 2015.
Richer has extensive experience working with technology manufacturers, ranging from very large and established companies to numerous […]
Steve Charles
About Steve Charles
2016 Recipient
Steve Charles Co-founded immixGroup, Inc. in 1997 and served as its Executive Vice President prior to its sales to Arrow Electronics. Charles served as vice president of contract management with Selbre & Associates. He serves as Director of immixGroup, Inc.
He is a recognized leader in the Federal procurement space and […]
Mark Weber
About Mark Weber
2015 Recipient
Mark Weber served as Senior Vice President of Americas at NetApp, Inc. since May 2014 until August 2015. Weber served as vice president and general manager of the Network Appliance Federal Systems division at NetApp, Inc. Weber was responsible for managing and developing government business at the federal level and […]
Bruce Klein
About Bruce Klein
2014 Recipient
Bruce Klein is Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Worldwide Partner Organization, which is responsible for supporting Cisco’s global business of more than 60,000 partners, representing the company’s primary route to market and accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco’s revenue. Klein joined Cisco in 2004 and held previous roles […]
Anne Altman
About Anne Altman
2013 Recipient
Anne Altman is General Manager, IBM U.S Federal Government and Industries.
Ms. Altman’s three-decade career with IBM has been heavily influenced by the work she has delivered in the government market. She previously served as General Manager for IBM’s Public Sector with responsibilities for global government, state and local agencies as […]
