An HR executive from a top company sent me a note. His tech company was on a major search for a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). They wanted to look at any female candidates because inclusion at the top is important to them. They wanted female candidates and had none.
Who did I know and who could I recommend?
I was stumped.
My knowledge of women CROs and Worldwide Heads of Sales was limited to a handful of women I’d met, been connected to, or been introduced to in the last year on my search to help get more women into B2B sales and sales leadership. I had little to offer. They ended up hiring a great guy – and I couldn’t stop thinking about how few women CROs I knew of.
With the jarring statistic from DiscoverOrg’s recent data that only 12.8% of top sales leaders are women, here is a “first take” on who the women CROs are that we could find through some research and through LinkedIn connections. It is not all-encompassing, in fact I’d love for anyone who is or knows a female CRO and not on this list to be shared through our Twitter handle @WOMENSalesPros and we’ll add them in. We will create a second list with Worldwide Head of Sales.
In alphabetical order and company listed, we present WOMEN CROs (we are saving sales enablement titles for another list):
- Divya Agarwalla – Instamotor
- Amanda Armstrong – Vend
- Joanna Bailey – GrowMobile by Perion
- Erica Bartman – Clique Media Group
- Sharon Berdugo – Viralize
- Preeti Bhat – EarthBenign
- Katie Bianchi – GE Digital
- Hillary Billingsley – ThingLink
- Anne Bowman – FlipTix
- Jacqui Bracey – US Blanks (LA)
- Cindy Brown – ViraGains
- Nancy Cardone – Marie Claire
- Eileen Carty – Woven Digital
- Carol Chalmers – Presdo
- Natalie Cheney – MemberSuite, Inc.
- Jill Chiara – Landit
- Kathee Chimowitz – BoomBit Games
- Pamela Cohen – Education Dynamics
- Marianne Collins – SourceMedia
- Christina Cranley – Fast Company
- Avantika Daing – Jopwell
- Gina D'Andrea – Bankrate, Inc.
- Tara DeLong – Klugonyx Group
- Angela Dowling – Cambia Health Solutions
- Katelyn Duff – Division-D
- Deborah Esayian – Marketron
- Stephanie Fader – Punchbowl
- Mary Favazza – Good Measures LLC
- Melissa Felder – California Academy of Sciences
- Deanna Flanick – Buyers Laboratory LLC
- Cynthia Fox – Shield Technologies US
- Cynthia Fry – Trinity Health
- Allyson Fryhoff – Salesforce.org
- Elizabeth Gallagher – Thumbtack Technology
- Stephanie Galloway – Medcan
- Emilia Gamble – Avid Media Ltd
- Stefanie Genauer – Kairos
- Ellen Giglio – AFAR Media
- Ashley Glover – RealPage, Inc
- Melissa Goidel – Refinery29, Inc.
- Melissa Greenberg – Flite
- Dana Griffin – Knotch
- Lisa Gruwell – Wikimedia Foundation
- Anita Gupta – KiwiTech
- Sarah Hague – Hague Strategic Consulting
- Elizabeth Halkos – Purchasing Power
- Carol Hanley – Deluxe Entertainment Services Group
- Maria Hess – PicMonkey
- Brenda Hetrick – Matrix Solutions
- Angela Hills – Cielo
- Margaret Hunt – New York Public Radio
- Shannon Jessup – Tapjoy
- Tiffany Jones – iSIGHT Partners
- Lori Jones – Connance
- Adriana Kampfner – CMP.LY
- Amanda Kanaga – SparkPeople
- Kimberly Kelleher – Condé Nast
- Maile Keone – Listen Technologies Corporation
- Jo Kinsella – TVSquared
- Catherine Kniker – Technology Platform Group at PTC
- Lucy Kriz – Conde Nast
- Lauren Labahn – Austin Film Society
- Susan Ledger – Splunk
- Meredith Levien – The New York Times
- Taryn Lomas – Underground Elephant
- Sandy Lutton – Washington Speakers Bureau
- Cecily Mak – Flipboard
- Pamela Mann – Conde Nast
- Ashley Mathis – Teaching Strategies, LLC
- Emily McAteer – SunEdison
- Sonia McFarland – San Francisco Deltas
- Kassie Means – Hearst Magazines
- Janet Megdadi – Synthesio
- Debra Meyer – SQAD LLC
- Sandie Milberg – Varick Media Management
- Terri Mock – Ve Interactive
- Heather Monahan – Beasley Media Group
- Lynne Montesanto – Boston Magazine
- Alison Moore – SoundCloud
- Shelly Mudd – Jobs2Careers
- Sharon Mussalli – Some Spider
- Nichole Mustard – Credit Karma
- Michele Napier – Mercy Health
- Darya Nasr – LigaData
- Elise Neel – MapQuest
- Lauren Nemeth – Turn
- Bernadette Nixon – Alfresco
- Veronica O'Shea – Magnitude Software
- Lisa Owens – TED
- Karleen Pate – Sonoma Media Investments
- Ellen Patterson – EverFi
- Kathy Perone – Bay Microsystems, Inc.
- Connie Phillips – Condé Nast
- Charity Plaxton – MLive Media Group
- Kerri Pollard – Honey
- Patti Poole – Vendavo
- Lori Prestesater – AxisPoint Health
- Kyle Raffaniello – Vitals
- Katrina Reynolds – Medical University of South Carolina
- Baglan Rhymes – AnchorFree
- Shanika Rogowski – Mansfield Bank
- Andrea Romero – ingomma
- Victoria Rose – Wenner Media
- Margaret Roth – Yet Analytics, Inc
- Kim Rowley – Billaway
- Priya Sachdev – Business Salt
- Christina Sandy – Econoday
- Jackie Schneider – Field Nation
- Karen Schuchardt – izo
- Jill Seelig – Hearst Magazines
- Michele Shepard – Vertafore
- Samantha Skey – SheKnows Media
- Carol Smith – Harper's BAZAAR Magazine
- Rebecca Sperrey – Eastern Maine Heatlhcare Systems
- Mollie Spilman – Criteo
- Marti Strand – Allegheny Health Network
- Marie Svet – AccuWeather
- Shirley Tafoya – Rakuten Marketing
- Tammy Thomlison – University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Jacinta Tobin – Twistlock
- Victoria Treyger – Kabbage, Inc
- Wanda Truxillo – MotorQueen
- Caroline Turner – PowerToFly
- Lisa Utzschneider – Yahoo
- Hilit Vainberger – io
- Michelle Vautier – dLocal
- Jennifer Vaziralli – Latinum Network
- Camille Watson – Farm Hill
- Susan Weiner – All Inbox LLC
- Kristine Welker – The Hearst Corporation
- Vicki Wellington – Hearst Magazines
- Jana Whitcomb – AudienceScience
- Jennifer Wilga – MediaRadar, Inc.
- Annie Williams – Kindful
- Rachel Wolkowitz – Accomplice
- Monica Xuereb – Loews Hotels
Lori Richardson helps mid-sized companies grow revenues by solving key issues in their sales department – like recruiting, retention, diversity hiring, process, pipeline and leadership. She speaks at CEO groups on topics of sales growth. Clients include companies in the technology, telecom, manufacturing, distribution, and professional services industries. Subscribe to the award-winning blog, follow her on Twitter
One Response
Lori what a fabulous idea. This list you have begun is great. It won’t be today but I will go thru my database and add those I know too.