Better Together: Partnerships and Innovation to Accelerate Growth

Tamika Tremaglio is a distinguished finance professional with over 30 years of leadership experience in professional services, excelling in strategy development, operations management, risk management, talent development, forensic accounting, and regulatory compliance. As the former Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), she successfully negotiated the 2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement, securing a $250 million increase in player salaries and benefits, with an estimated $50 billion impact over seven years. She also pioneered a groundbreaking provision allowing the NBPA to invest in NBA teams through private equity, fostering generational wealth for players. Beyond her corporate achievements, Tamika is deeply committed to philanthropy, serving on the boards of over 10 organizations, including Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, DC-CAP, Tuskegee University, Mount St. Mary’s University, and SDA Bocconi in Milan. Her leadership and dedication to social causes demonstrate her broad impact on both business and community development

Theresa Caragol is the Founder and CEO, AchieveUnite Inc., the Partnering Success Company passionately focused on helping people organizations thrive through the development of trusting, dynamic partnerships. With deep experience across the channel and partner ecosystem, their proven approach to uplevel partnering expertise and effectiveness delivers strong financial return and business transformation.

Ms. Caragol is a sought-after influencer with more than 20 years of experience across over 50 countries, building and managing multi-million-dollar indirect channel teams and strategic alliance programs from inception to sales success.  She has developed numerous Executive Advisory Boards and Think Tanks, and co-founded the Baptie Women’s Leadership Council.

Ms. Caragol has received numerous IT industry channel accolades and is a member of the CompTIA Channel Faculty - curriculum development, Baptie Channel Chiefs, Industry Think Tank and Council – Facilitator, as well as Non-Profit Boards: National Choral Society. Theresa Caragol is also a sought-after speaker, author, trainer, and facilitator, and was recently featured in the books, How To Be A Woman In Technology (While Focusing On What Matters Most) and How to be an Emotionally Intelligent Leader and will soon release a book soon.

Prior to founding AchieveUnite Inc, Theresa held senior executive roles at Extreme Networks, Ciena and Nortel. She holds a Bachelors from Virginia Tech, an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, and an Executive Masters in Leadership from Georgetown University Business School.

Theresa regularly speaks, writes, and blogs on a variety of topics in notable publications such as Forbes.com, and for some of today’s most recognized technology companies.

Cherish Isaac is the Vice President of Sales Development & Operations at Insperity, a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions designed to help businesses succeed so communities prosper. Cherish is a dynamic and results-oriented leader with over 26 years of progressive experience in driving sales growth, optimizing sales processes, and leading cross-functional teams. She has a proven track record of scaling sales operations, expanding market presence, and fostering leadership development.

As Vice President, she leads five distinct areas of the Growth Organization. Sales Talent Development, Sales Operations, Sales Enablement, Sales Analytics and the Market Growth and Expansion team. Each team takes a multi-faceted approach to aligning cross-functional needs, and Cherish’s leadership of these areas has ensured all-around support of Insperity’s growing sales force allowing them to focus more acutely on selling and relationship building with clients.

In addition to her work at Insperity, Cherish is a mother of two grown boys, one GenY AKA Millennial and one GenZ. She also serves as a member of the Bauer Executive Education Advisory Board. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors for the High School Band Booster as well as other leadership roles in her church. Embodying Insperity’s commitment to the community, she has also volunteered for many organizations, including the Alzheimer’s Association, Sinclair Children’s Center, Harkins House for Women, Heaven’s Army, and Home of Amazing Grace for Women.

As SVP Global Channels and Alliances, Michelle oversees Ivanti’s worldwide partner ecosystem. This is critical for Ivanti’s growth strategy, as partners are an extension of the team and allow for greater reach to meet customer needs.

Michelle’s professional passion is to discover the true value basis between a company, its GTM motion, and its ecosystem. She has global experience working with companies in international expansion both in operating and go-to-market (GTM) strategies. Most recently, Michelle led the channel business at GitLab during its IPO. Her unique understanding of how indirect routes to market contribute to overall operating efficiency, revenue growth, and customer value was formed during her time with companies like Microsoft, VMWare and Business Objects; building global channels, services and alliance opportunities.

Michelle holds an M.B.A. International Management and an M.A. International Policy Studies from Monterey Institute of International Studies – Monterey, CA.; and a B.A. French Literature and Philosophy from Whittier College, Whittier, CA.

David Schlosser, also known as Dave, has been in the IT industry for over 30 years.  He is currently Chief Operating Officer of ThunderCat Technology, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. ThunderCat is a leading solutions partner to the U.S. Government, educational institutions, and commercial companies. Dave leads the Sales teams focused on selling to Federal agencies, State and Local agencies and Commercial customers. Dave currently is a member of executive advisory councils for many of ThunderCat’s partners. Dave also advises companies on how to start and grow Public Sector sales teams.

Prior to ThunderCat, Dave was at NetApp Federal for 6 years where he held the position of District Sales Manager, leading the sales teams calling on Civilian accounts. Prior to that, Dave spent 18 years at Sun Microsystems Federal where he held the position of District Sales Manager for DOD accounts. While at Sun Microsystems, Dave also held positions of DOD Sales Rep, Systems Engineer, Systems Administrator and other technical positions. Dave also spent 7 years at NBI Inc, where he was in a number of technical positions.

Dave has a strong track record of building successful sales teams and has vast experience in selling solutions to the U.S. Government. Dave is a graduate of Control Data Institute where he earned a degree in Customer Engineering.   Dave spent many years coaching his sons in basketball in the Catholic CYO league and in the Herndon High School Optimist league.

Chad retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2023 as a general officer with nearly 29-years of cyber operations, communications, and information technology experience.  He is a seasoned 9-time commander, leading complex international organizations, and a thought leader with vast strategy development, policy, resource management, operations, risk mitigation, and budget experience. 

As Commander of the White House Communications Agency, Chad oversaw an elite unit that provided assured communications and information services, anytime and anywhere, for the President, Vice President, National Security Council, and White House Staff, from the Oval Office to travel locations worldwide.  Chad’s final assignment was the Director of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Cyber, as well as, Chief Information Officer for U.S. European Command, where he ensured communications readiness across the European theater -- with NATO, the world’s premier military alliance, and 51 countries -- through policy and security cooperation efforts. 

In addition, Chad serves as the Chairman and CEO of the Air Force Cyberspace & Air Traffic Control Association, is a member of the Board of Directors for AFCEA International and is a member of the Board of Advisors for both the Military Cyber Professionals Association and the Air and Space Forces Association’s Cyber Patriot Program.  He earned his bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.

In his new role Chad Raduege is the Executive Director, Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute at The University of Tulsa.  He leads an Institute focused on developing, testing, and deploying cyber research outcomes and technology developments. The University of Tulsa is leveraging nationally recognized cyber scholars in academia and research, in addition to Tulsa’s dynamic business and innovation community, to meet the global demand for cyber talent and technology.

Barb Huelskamp is the Sr Vice President of Global Channels & Alliances at Qualys. She is responsible for the partner strategy, program, and global team driving mutual growth and value with channel partners.  During her +25-year career in channel and sales leadership, she has delivered global revenue growth leading transformative channel strategies that increase market share, accelerate growth, and forge new partnerships/alliances. Her professional experience also includes program development, process improvement, and helping partners with complex change management or business transformation.  

Prior to joining Qualys, Barb led the global partner strategy and program at Alteryx analytics automation, and ISV GTM strategies and Public Sector Partner Programs globally at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Before AWS, Barb served as vice president of global channels at MicroPact, and vice president of NA channels at Polycom and Jabra. She has created or optimized partner programs attracting new global system integrators and strategic partners resulting in channel-led sales.  

An avid community member, Barb is a board member for CRN’s Women of the Channel, and mentors young professionals through a variety of organizations. She is also an independent Board Director at Leading Like a Lady non-profit organization.  

Barb lives near Charlotte, NC with her husband Paul. They enjoy time with their four adult children, sons-in-law, and grandchildren as often as possible.   

Christian has been with Nutanix for 4 years and serves as Vice President of Americas Channels. Christian is responsible for the strategic direction of Nutanix’s extended ecosystem, fostering strategic relationships, developing strategic sales programs for value-added resellers (VARs), distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), global system integrators (GSIs), and XSP partners. Prior to Nutanix, Christian spent 5 years at Juniper Networks as Head of Channels and Distribution for the Americas. Christian has also held multiple sales and leadership roles at Cyan Inc, Avaya and Nortel over his 20+ years career. Originally from Argentina, Christian lives in South Florida with his wife and 3 children.

Linda Hutchinson is the Global Partner Leader for Ciena and is responsible for all aspects of Ciena’s award winning Ciena Partner Network Ecosystem (CPNe) program and operations. She also has global responsibility for the channel go-to-market strategy, partner sales, and field enablement for Solution Providers covering the Enterprise, Federal, Public Sector, and Network Operator markets. With over 15 years of leadership in channel-centric roles, Linda is known for “connecting the dots” to anticipate where high tech markets are converging. She’s a change agent adept at transforming sales organizations into high performing teams.

Prior to joining Ciena, Linda held senior sales leadership, corporate strategy, global alliance, and channel development roles at both Avaya and Nortel where she drove consistent achievement of targets ranging from $50M to $1B. Having also enjoyed a stint as an entrepreneur launching an information security and risk management consulting firm, she is a strong advocate for women in business, data privacy, information security, and STEM. 

An active volunteer, she formerly led the Women In Technology Career Explorations team focused on raising STEM awareness within middle and high school girls. Linda received her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Auburn University and her MBA from Emory University.

John Beuchert is a seasoned channel executive with over 30 years of experience in driving double-digit sales growth through strategic global channel initiatives, analytics, and incentive-based programs. With a solid background in Cloud and Fortune 500 companies, John excels in leading rapid and effective organizational changes, even under challenging conditions. He has a proven track record of managing large global teams and handling substantial budgets exceeding $100 million. His aggressive leadership in global channel incentive and operational initiatives has consistently led to successful management of several multi-billion-dollar acquisitions and the associated channel integrations.

Outside of his professional life, John resides in Lehi, Utah, where he enjoys a variety of hobbies including cars and bikes (both motor and electric MTB), golfing, fishing, and watching collegiate and professional sports such as football, basketball, and Formula 1.