Award Honors Women Who Are ‘Living the Pledge’: Women Supporting Women
ORANGE, Calif., July 19, 2022 – The Alliance of Channel Women, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of female channel leaders in technology, announced today that Lita Vernick, Senior Director at Comcast Business, was selected as the group’s Big Impact Winner for Q2. Honorees are chosen quarterly by ACW from nominees submitted by the channel community who are Living the ACW Advocacy Pledge: Women Supporting Women.
The ACW Advocacy Pledge Program was started in 2020 by the ACW Advocacy Committee (now the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee) to encourage women to support each other. The ACW Advocacy Pledge is “Behind Every Successful Woman is a Community of Successful Women Who Have Her Back.”
ACW encourages women to go on record supporting the ACW Advocacy Pledge by signing its pledge page. In addition, the association encourages visitors to nominate women who are “living the pledge.”
Vernick, the Big Impact Winner for Q2 2022, was nominated by the following peers: Dalyn Wertz, Executive Director of Indirect Program and Marketing at Comcast Business; Maureen O’Connell, Senior Director of National Partner Sales at Comcast Business; and Vivian Chavez, Senior Director of Strategic Channel Programs at Comcast Business.
“Lita exemplifies the ACW advocacy pledge,” said Wertz. “As a leader on the Comcast Business team, she has spent the last 10 years ensuring women are supported, coached, mentored and successful. She is constantly reaching out to show support, offer guidance and coaching. …Lita is what makes the Indirect Program and team so unique and successful.”
Read the full nomination here.
Congratulations to our other Q2 nominees, including:
- Kathy Flick, Senior Director at Nextiva
- Raquel Wiley, Vice President of Marketing at NetFortris
- Stacy Cole, Senior Director at Five9
- Marcia Dempster, Senior Director at Keeper Security
- Amy Bailey, Senior Vice President at Telarus
- Alexie Teferi, Director at Alliance Business Services
- Ashley (Cole) Dahling, Senior Channel Manager at Fusion Connect
- Eileen Chan, Global Account Manager at AppDynamics
For information about the ACW Pledge, visit: https://allianceofchannelwomen.org/engage/acw-pledge
About the Alliance of Channel Women
Founded in 2010, the Alliance of Channel Women is a not-for-profit organization of women in the indirect sales channel of the telecom and IT industry. The Alliance of Channel Women brings us together to empower and advance women’s careers and leadership roles in the technology channel through education, community, advocacy and opportunities for personal growth. To learn more and to become a member, please visit www.allianceofchannelwomen.org.
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