International Women’s Day 2022 - Partner Roundtable

Fotini Kaklamanou

Fotini Kaklamanou is Global Alliance Lead for Google Cloud and brings diverse, global experience in alliance management, channel strategy, program creation and execution. Fotini leads the Infosys alliance at Google Cloud where she is responsible for the alliance's overall strategy and business results. Prior to Google, Fotini held several positions at Microsoft including datacenter region expansion, and partner management. Originally from Greece and having lived in several countries, Fotini now resides on the West Coast of the US with her husband and three children.

Allison Ortiz

Allison Ortiz is Principal Partner Development Manager, Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries for AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the global partner leader at Amazon Web Services for the Consumer, Retail, and Logistics (CRL) industries for the Infosys alliance team. She leads the AWS Infosys CRL practice with a focus on market strategy, innovative solution development, and the joint business value of AWS and Infosys. Allison builds and supports teams across Amazon through mentoring and employee resource group activities.

Before joining AWS in her current role in September 2020, she was divisional vice president of corporate and analytics systems at Bealls, Inc., where she also founded the first employee resource group, Women in IT. Allison has also actively partnered with National Retail Federation (NRF) as the chairperson of the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), chairperson of the invite-only Tech Council, and a member of the Women in Retail IT council.

Marianne Roling

Marianne Roling is General Manager, Digital Technology Global System Integrator Partners, Microsoft leads the worldwide partnerships with the 5 largest Digital Technology System Integrators for Microsoft. Marianne and her team drive business development, partner offers, and solution creation based on the Microsoft Cloud, joint Go-to-market plan, and joint sales with Microsoft’s largest customers. Marianne holds a BBA and an MBA degree from Nijenrode, the Netherlands school of business and has a post graduate degree from Harvard Business School.

Marianne was born in the Netherlands and is married to Lorraine from Trinidad. They enjoy going out, seeing art, doing sports. Marianne is a strong advocate and role model supporting LGBTQ diversity in the workplace and is a trustee at Kaleidoscope Trust, and organization that works on LGBTQ+ rights around the world.

Ann Marie Somerville

Ann Marie Somerville is Global Managing Director of Infosys at IBM and has over 25 years of experience in IT. She is currently Global Managing Director of Infosys at IBM, focused on the creation and execution of strategic priorities and initiatives focused on Hybrid Cloud & Data/AI. Ann Marie has held numerous global roles at IBM. She has a strong background in Government, as she led both sales and technical in support of the US Federal government for several years. Ann Marie’s background in software development, IT infrastructure and Cloud has led her to managing service delivery teams, acquisition teams, and high performing sales teams focused on client success around the world.

Carola Cazenave

Carola Cazenave is Head of the Global Partner Ecosystem at Pega Systems and oversees all aspects of the vibrant Pega ecosystem that supports Pega GTM from co-origination and sourcing, co-selling and reselling to delivery and customer success by engaging sales teams, creating new revenue streams supported by programs, portal, processes, and incentives. Developed with her team, Pega’s partner-centric strategy and transformation to help Pega grow exponentially. Named in the 2021 Channel Chiefs by CRN and has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs. Carola’s previous experience includes various leadership roles in sales, marketing, delivery, and business transformation at IBM.

A proud Argentinian, Carola is married with three kids and enjoys playing tennis. She is a Business Angel, Startup competition judge, and Diversity and Inclusivity sponsor.

Linda Gossage

Linda Gossage is Associate Vice President, Global Alliances at Infosys has enjoyed over 20 years in the Information Technology industry as an accomplished sales professional with applied knowledge in enterprise software sales, ecosystem development and team leadership. As AVP of Global Alliances at Infosys, she leads the global strategy for the IBM and Red Hat partner ecosystem. She is passionate about creating synergies with partners and the unique capabilities of Infosys to deliver meaningful outcomes to our clients in their digital transformation journey. With her extensive global sales background, she delights in the opportunity to bring together cross functional and multi-cultural teams to drive mutual success across organizations.

Linda has lived and worked in Asia and is conversational in Mandarin and Cantonese. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, 16-year-old twins and golden Labrador. In her free time, she enjoys testing out new exotic recipes and being outdoors enjoying the natural beauty of Northern California.

Sandra Jackson

Sandra Jackson is Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, at Infosys where she leads the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program for the Americas Region. She’s held several roles in Human Resources such as: Global Talent Manager for HP Enterprise Services, Senior Manager Diversity & Inclusion, EDS (now DXC Technologies) as well as various HR Strategic Business Partner roles.

She has developed and facilitated leadership training & development programs and managed diversity & inclusion strategies to increase the talent pool for women and underrepresented groups. Her past experiences included living and working internationally in Zurich, Switzerland and then on to Izmir, Turkey. It is there where she found her love for culture and her appreciation for global diversity.

Sandra holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Relations and Business Management. She is also certified by Berlitz Language Institute in Cultural Training and by Global Novations (now Korn/Ferry International) in Diversity and Inclusion Training. She is also PHR certified by HRCI. Sandra resides in Dallas, Texas, and in her free time enjoys travelling, working out at the gym, wine tasting, bike riding, volunteering in her community, and spending time with her son and family.

Inderpreet Sawhney

Inderpreet Sawhney is the Group General Counsel and the Chief Compliance Officer of Infosys. In this role she leads the legal and compliance function of the Company. She is a strategic business partner supporting the business in legal and regulatory matters and ensuring the implementation of the compliance and ethics program of the Company.

Inderpreet is a seasoned international professional with over 25 years of experience, including as a General Counsel of a large IT Service company, and as Managing Partner of a mid-sized law firm in Silicon Valley. She serves on the Board of Directors of NYSE listed Hillenbrand Inc. and is a member of the National Advisory Council of SABANA (South Asian Bar Association of North America).

In recognition for her work, Inderpreet has been awarded the 2013 NASABA Corporate Counsel Achievement Award, she was an honoree at the 2017 Transformative Leadership Awards, recognizing General Counsel who have demonstrated commitment to advancing women in law; recipient of the Thought Leadership Award at the 2018 Global Transformative Leadership Awards and was featured in the top 25 Women Leaders in IT Services of 2020, published by news portal The IT Services Report.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences globally.

Inderpreet has a BA (Hons.) and LL.B degree from Delhi University and an LL.M from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.