These recommendations are from colleagues with whom I've worked closely in the past decade. I remain inspired by the camaraderie we've enjoyed, the expertise they've shared with me over the years and their generous support in sharing their thoughts, for which I am both grateful and humbled.
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Renee Yeager
Founder & CEO, Yeager Marketing I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Eileen for 20 years. She is a brilliant business leader, strategist, and marketing executive that makes a measurable and positive impact in every role she holds. As a leader, she defines the current reality of a business, seeks to understand the opportunities for growth, and clarifies a vision for how to get there. She has a proven track record of building exceptional teams and guiding them to deliver game-changing results for the companies fortunate enough to employ her. Eileen has my deepest respect and I highly recommend her to any organization looking to take their business to a new level of success.
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Tonja Gable
Senior Director, Global Marketing & Communications, Shyft Global Services I've worked with Eileen in various capacities for a decade. She is creative and strategic – she thinks outside the box and often ten steps ahead – but somehow seamlessly engages everyone around her to successfully execute on any vision or goal. The rapport she builds and trust she creates within her team is unmatched. After seeing her in so many situations I honestly don’t think there is an effort she can’t tackle or a problem she can’t solution. Her vast industry experience enables her to think through the lens of the customer, vendor, potential business outcomes and employee experience in any situation. She is loyal, hardworking and really cares about the business and her colleagues. Eileen is the leader who will take your organization to the next level and who you want your employees to learn from and model.
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Colin Blair
Co-founder, Sensurance I have known and worked with Eileen in different capacities for over 20 years. She is a process-driven, results-oriented, creative and dynamic executive. She is an experienced business leader in the IT channel with considerable sales, marketing, management and consulting expertise. Eileen builds high-performing teams and is one of the best I know at working with and across matrixed organizations.
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William Chu
EVP, Global Partnerships, Sunway Digital Eileen is a very talented strategist in the company. We worked together in Avnet and Tech Data for many years, and Eileen was always there to help the global businesses to take on new opportunities and improve existing business. I remembered working closely with Eileen to expand our cloud and services businesses, as well as recovering Asia’s below-performance countries successfully. Eileen speaks her mind and you can count on her to deliver what she had committed. She is willing to take problems head on. During our tenure in Avnet and Tech Data, the services business was the under-performing area. Eileen had the courage to join the services group and helped to steer the business back into profitability. I have the full confidence that any organization that leverages on her experiences in global business, strategy, business development and services will thrive and benefit from Eileen’s dedication and contributions.
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Dayna Badhorn
Regional President, Americas, Avnet Eileen and I worked together in Global Strategy at Avnet as cross functional liaisons for the business units. Eileen has a strong background in strategy and was always willing to cross collaborate on projects. Her ability to define performance driven metrics and own critical initiatives enabled her division to operate efficiently and achieve near and long-term business goals. Her background in marketing also allowed her to approach strategy with the customer in mind to deliver real customer value. Working alongside Eileen pushed my own critical-thinking mindset and allowed me to become a better strategy person. She is passionate about what she does while being a great leader and mentor. I would recommend Eileen in any role that needs a strategic mindset and data-driven approach to success.
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MJ Patent
Head of Marketing, Logically You know all of those memes about leadership? I think those were written about Eileen. From day one, Eileen made me feel appreciated, supported and empowered. She always set the bar high and motivated the team to not only reach it but surpass it. Her passion was contagious, and she inspired the entire team to accomplish something extraordinary. In addition to being an amazing leader, she is also a strategic visionary. In the time we worked together, I was able to observe Eileen mold eight distinct companies into one global services organization with a unified vision. Her pragmatic, data-driven approach helped the business make very purposeful decisions that achieved continuous growth. She is a rare find and I am truly blessed to have her in my life, as a leader and friend.
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Leslie Rosenberg
Research Vice President, IDC I have worked with Eileen for close to 20 years throughout various stages of our careers. I highly value her strategic insight, collaboration, willingness to listen to new ideas and partnership. She is supportive of all her colleagues and true pleasure to work with. She is a true professional.
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Julie Jones
SVP, Strategic Initiatives, BeyondTrust Eileen and I were colleagues at Avnet, prior to that I also had the opportunity to work with her as a client of Avnet. Her extensive experience in the channel and technology industry were of tremendous value in many ways to our organization- from setting strategy to leading a services transformation and mentoring new employees. I worked closely with Eileen on global cross-functional initiatives and would welcome the opportunity to do so again – she has a proven ability to balance strategy with cross-functional teamwork and 1-1 relationship building to successfully drive transformation and growth within a company and the tech industry.
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Cheryl Day
VP, Vendor Strategy, TD SYNNEX When I am looking for some help with strategy for a new project, I turn to Eileen. She is a true professional in strategy management. She takes the time to do research and analysis and knows how to turn strategy into implementation. We have worked together for approximately 20 years at Avnet Technology Solutions and now at Tech Data. As almost every company is driving transformation, I can’t think of anyone better to help a company though any change they need to make. Her passion, financial acumen, strategy facilitation, and go-to-market development capabilities are the best. I am thankful for all the support and guidance Eileen has and continues to provide me. She is very generous with her time and willing to help support anyone.
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Tom Esposito
Chairman, The INSIGHT Group I have had the opportunity to work closely with Eileen many times over the last 15 years. She has a unique blend of strategic thinking coupled with superb day-to-day operational effectiveness. Just to name a few of her many capabilities that I have personally observed:
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Doug Halbert
Retired VP/GM, Tech Data I am pleased to recommend Eileen Gibson as a seasoned Marketing and Business Strategy executive. Having partnered with Eileen in the Global Lifecycle Management Business for ~4 years, I have observed first hand and benefited professionally from her unique, customer-centric ability to visualize and craft business strategy and articulate new value that can be created in the market to differentiate our business. Her style is collaborative and her communications skills, both verbal and in written form, are excellent. Eileen built a team of marketing professionals and aligned these resources to the different business functions to design and implement marketing programs. When strategies shifted, Eileen consistently demonstrated proactive agility to realign the talent on her team to optimize the support of changes in our business strategy and programs. I recommend Eileen for any Fortune 100 executive position in marketing and business strategy development.
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Nicole Enright
President, Avnet Integrated Eileen is an extremely accomplished senior executive skilled in strategy development, strategy management and marketing. She has a proven track record of developing clear go-to-market strategies and complementary marketing plans which drive exponential growth. Eileen is great at bringing teams of people together and getting the best out of those teams to deliver the best for the company. I've worked with Eileen in many roles over the years. She is incredibly well regarded by leaders, peers and her teams. She is an empathetic leader with a passion for the businesses she serves. Eileen authentically brings vision to life and has done so with new business models, new businesses and growth strategies for large and small companies.
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Mariano Dy-Liacco X
SVP, Connection Technology Services Eileen is a strategic marketing executive that truly brings a company’s vision to life, as she did with our services business. Her ability to collaborate across various functions of the business and drive results is a key recipe to her success. Her pragmatic approach and focus enable her to effectively execute and deliver results. She’s honest and transparent and has a natural way of motivating her team. Eileen’s passion, leadership and go-to-market experience will make her a strong contributor to any leadership team or organization she works with.
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Steve Tepedino
President & CEO, IT Partners Eileen is a strategic marketing executive with a deep skill set across all aspects of channel marketing. She truly understands the benefits of alternate routes to market, combining strong relationships with program expertise to ignite revenue growth. In working with Eileen at both Avnet and Channel Savvy, she was instrumental to the overall success of the business and an invaluable member of the executive team.
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TJ Harper
President, Nationwide Energy Partners “Can Do Attitude with a passion for the customer.” It’s the best way to describe Eileen and her vision for driving business decisions based on the market and the customer experience. Many times a company can lose that customer touch, influence and journey. They get focused internally and lose sight of the real goals. Eileen has the skill set, experience and persuasive communication skills to lead an organization to an effective strategy, and more importantly, execute and stay committed to the strategy.
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Steven Hagler
Americas Lead, Partner GTM & Distribution Sales, VMware With great pleasure, I would like to offer a recommendation to any/all regarding Eileen Gibson. I am fortunate to have been able to engage her across multiple of her career chapters (distribution marketing, her consulting firm, her strategic efforts with senior executives of Avnet/TD/TD SYNNEX, and now even more closely as she came into VMware). In all of those engagements across two decades and multiple companies, I have found Eileen to have tremendous, strategic depth in all things channel. Eileen routinely demonstrates her ability to engage at the senior executive levels to build and articulate these strategies and also, more importantly, put effective and practical approaches in place to drive execution. The impact that she is having in narrowing focus areas, being very agile in those approaches and aligning different organizations together here at VMware is immense and greatly appreciated. I have and will continue to recommend Eileen. As she says in her profile, she "helps companies bring their vision to life."
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Tracy-Ann Palmer
VP, Partner Experience, Program, Investments & Compliance, VMware It has been an absolute privilege to work with Eileen. She is a seasoned executive focused on driving results, very strategic, a creative problem solver, and a great communicator. Eileen has been an incredible business partner, pragmatic, understands the complexities of the channel and how to deliver ROI through the partner ecosystem. She is a great leader and very good at helping others think and act more strategically.
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Anna Wilkins
Vice President, Global Sales Execution & Enablement, SolarWinds There are rare individuals that possess strategic vision, agility and execution. Eileen is one of those individuals. In the time I had the privilege to have Eileen as my colleague, I've seen her assess, formulate a plan, align both her team and key stakeholders and begin to execute. I want to emphasize the short window in which she was able to do this, which exemplifies her ability -- all while the environment was constantly changing and evolving. I'd recommend Eileen in any strategic capacity; she will help transform any organization to the highest levels of productivity, metrics for success, and ultimately impact and growth.
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