TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel Megan Giarelli from TBI

As a senior commissions analyst at TBI, Megan analyzes revenue data from our carriers throughout the month and makes sure our partners are paid accurately and in a timely manner. 

CHICAGO – June 5, 2019 – TBI announced a new member to its executive team with the addition of Scott Whalen as Vice President, Strategic Partnerships. The former CenturyLink sales executive joins the Master Agent to further align vendor programs and emerging solutions with TBI partners.

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Carla Looper of CXT180. 

Carla is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of CXT180 with 20 years of IT professional experience.

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel Sue Pero from TBI

Sue is currently an Omni Center Support Trainer at TBI. Sue came to Chicago about five and a half years ago to pursue better opportunities, thinking she may get a job in biotech and ended up getting a job in the call center instead as part of the old Time Warner team. She was in the call center for one and a half years before eventually working on the Leapfrog campaign (TBI’s old Inbound Team).

Chicago, IL, May 20, 2019 – TBI, The largest, privately-owned technology distributor, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Jackie Landuyt, Director of Finance to its prestigious 2019 Women of the Channel list. The leaders on this annual list are from all areas of the IT channel ecosystem; representing technology suppliers, distributors, solution providers, and other IT organizations. 

Each is recognized for her contributions to channel advocacy, channel growth and visionary leadership.

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Tina Gravel of Cyxtera.

An award-winning executive with more than 25 years of experience in the IT outsourcing, cloud, security and SaaS industries, Tina is SVP of Global Channels and Alliances at Cyxtera. Prior to Cyxtera, Tina was a Senior Vice President of Global Channels and Strategic Alliances for Cryptzone, a Cyxtera Business. Before joining Cryptzone, Tina held the role of General Manager and Vice President for Dimension Data’s Cloud Services Business in the Americas. Tina also served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Nirvanix, leading the company’s sales, marketing and indirect channel programs.

The annual TBI Big Event was held in Chicago at the historic Soldier Field on May 9^th, bringing together some of the largest vendors and most knowledgeable industry experts in the channel.

At the event kick-off, Granite Telecommunications, a $1.4 billion provider of communications services to multilocation businesses and government agencies, presented a ceremonial check to JDRF representatives and announced a $10,000 donation to JDRF to fund diabetes research.

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Joy Alfafara of Comcast. 

Joy is a Partner Sales Manager in the Chicago region working within the Indirect Channel Sales Organization for Comcast Business for the last four years. She works with local solutions providers supplying sales support and helping to grow their business through the Comcast Business portfolio with offerings that include SD-WAN, Ethernet, Advanced Voice Services, and SMB products.

The Master Agent names their first woman to join the executive team

CHICAGO – MAY 1, 2019 – The largest, privately-owned master agent and technology distributor, TBI (formerly Telecom Brokerage Inc.) announced the promotion of Corey Cohen from Director of Marketing to Vice President of Marketing. This promotion makes Corey the first woman to join the master agent’s now seven person executive team.

Master Agent and technology distributor TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Leah Bromley of AT&T. 

Leah is currently a Regional Director for AT&T in the Alliance Channel. She has more than 20+ years experience working at AT&T, all within in the channel programs. She leads a team of channel managers and technical sellers that provide local support for master agents in the Western Region of the United States.

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel Brigid O'Brien from TBI

Brigid is currently a National Channel Manager at telecom master agent, TBI, supporting west coast partners. She has 20+ yrs of experience working in Channels within the telecommunications/technology sector.

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel Kathryn Wilkie from TBI

Kathryn began her TBI career as a Sales Trainer where she was responsible for on-boarding new partners and providing training around TBI’s resources, support processes and solutions' implementations for our partners’ customers.  

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jody Hagemann of Comcast Business. 

Jody is the Senior Director of Product Management at Comcast Business. She has more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications, specifically service operations design, new product/feature launch, product-to-product migration and life cycle management. 

The opportunities for CCaaS sales are not limited to a specific vertical or business size; companies of all sizes and of all verticals want to reap the rewards of customer satisfaction and loyalty, both of which ultimately have direct impact on their topline revenue in the form of things like decreased customer churn, increased lifetime value of a customer and increased customer advocacy. They also see additional operational benefits in improved agent utilization and lower total cost of ownership.

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Iris Martell of Comcast Business. 

Iris Martell is a Regional Channel Manager for Comcast Business.  She is a 17-year telecom veteran with several top performer and over achievement awards to her credit. 

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Sammi Doti from TBI

Sammi is the Enterprise Business Development Manager at TBI and has been with TBI since November of 2012. She started in the call center and six months later was promoted to quote for TBI’s Enterprise Partners.

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Laura Buttimer of Mitel 

Laura Buttimer is currently the National Channel Manager at Mitel, where she has been for over seven years, mostly in a Channel Manager role.  

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Hope Onweller from TBI

Hope is a Program Manager at TBI in our Post Sales department and has been with TBI since September of 2004. 

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jasmina Muller of 8x8 

Jasmina Muller is currently the Regional Vice President for the Channel West at 8x8. She came to 8x8 in July of 2018 looking to expand her career within the cloud industry.  Coming from a telco background of more than 20+ years, Jasmina needed to see what else was out there.  With so many companies looking to be the next best "transformation" company, she says, she really liked the vision and story behind 8x8. They are the only cloud company to own their technology stack from the start and  unite voice, video, chat and contact center onto one platform. 

TBI Highlights Woman of the Channel, Jessica Lattanzio from TBI

As a Senior Account Manager at TBI, Jessica is responsible for managing and supporting a team of inside sales reps on the the Verizon Mass Markets team and is based out of our Portland office.