By Zoe Kelly
Partnerships requires professional relationship building. What better place to start than strengthening your own online network of partnerships professionals?
LinkedIn can be a great place to connect with other partnerships professionals, crowdsource answers to partnerships questions, and stay in the know about upcoming partnerships events and important online conversations.
In order to help you strengthen your LinkedIn network (and curate a feed that is relevant to you), we have compiled our 2022 list of folks you should be following. You can check out our 2021 list here.
And make sure you’re following Crossbeam to get the latest partnership insights the moment we publish them.
1. Justin Zimmerman
Justin Zimmerman the Fractional Alliance Manager at partnerships strategy company Partnerplaybook.com. He keeps his followers up-to-date on the latest in the partnerships space with his “Weekly Partnerships Social News Updates”. He is also a guest author on PartnerHacker.
Follow if you like…partner marketing, partnerships social news and updates:
2. Daniela Garcia
Daniela Garcia is the Partnerships Development Director at lead generation platform Lead Forensics. Garcia is also the Chief Executive Officer at Podbooking, a social media platform for podcast hosts.
Follow if you like…tech partnerships, agency partnerships, partnerships memes, partnerships prospecting tips:
3. Alicia Gan
Alicia Gan is a partnerships manager at customer service outsourcing service LTVplus. Gan also works as a partnerships manager for LTVplus-owned CRM Recover Payments.
Follow if you like…e-commerce, channel partnerships, tech partnerships, partner marketing:
4. Claire Gunter
Claire Gunter is the Director of Global Partner Marketing at business messaging platform Intercom and an advisor at Zingword, a platform for freelance translators.
Follow if you like…partner marketing, engagement strategy, Latin America:
5. Rashieté Calhoun
Rasheité Calhoun is a Program Manager, Channels and Alliances at HR platform Paylocity. Previously, she was a Manager, Strategic Partnerships at learning management system Open Sesame.
Follow if you like…strategic partnerships, channel partnerships:
6. Margot Mazur
Margo Mazur is a Manager, GTM Strategic Partnerships at CRM platform Hubspot. They have also worked at Hubspot as Sr. Marketing Manager, Global Co-marketing Acquisition and Principle Marketing Manager, Strategic Partnerships.
Follow if you like…strategic partnerships, GTM strategy, partner marketing:
7. Shawn Li
Shawn Li is Vice President of Partnerships at RedRoute, a customer service voice assistant platform. Previously Li worked as Senior Director of Partnerships at AI-driven lead engagement software company Conversica.
Follow if you like…agency partnerships, partnerships leadership, category creation:
8. Chris Lavoie
Chris Lavoie is Technology Partnerships Team Lead at customer engagement helpdesk Gorgias, where he also previously worked as Technology Partner Manager and Senior Technology Partner Manager.
Follow if you like..technology partnerships, e-commerce:
9. Ben Wright
Ben Wright is Director of Partnerships and Business Development at customer support platform Help Scout. Wright is also the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of charitable donations platform GoGive and a host of the Howdy Partners podcast.
Follow if you like…channel partnerships, partner marketing, co-selling:
10. Jessie Shipman
Jessie Shipman works for Apple as a Senior Channel Partner Enablement Engineer, where she previously worked as a Senior Strategic Partner Enablement Engineer. Shipman is also a contributing author for PartnerHacker.
Follow if you like…partner enablement, partnerships leadership:
11. Aleksi Mattlar
Aleksi Mattlar is a Manager, Partner Success at Vena Solutions. As a sales professional turned partnerships professional, Mattlar provides a unique perspective on how to translate sales tactics to partnerships.
Follow if you like…channel partnerships, SaaS sales, co-selling:
12. Chris Castaldo
As the Chief Information Security Officer at Crossbeam, author of the book Start-Up Secure, Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute – George Mason University, and Founding Board Member of Security Tinkers, Chris Castaldo is an authority on cybersecurity in the partnerships and startup spaces.
He is also an advisor at Stitch, Tautuk, BalkanID, and SafeBase, and a member of the Board of Directors at Rallye for Vets.
Follow if you like…cybersecurity, startup security, security in partnerships:
13. Jared Fuller
Jared Fuller is the co-founder and Chief Ecosystem Officer at PartnerHacker, a partnerships-specific media company that hosts the daily newsletter “the Partner Hacker Daily” and the PartneredUp podcast.
Follow if you like…category definition, partnerships strategy, interviews with partnerships professionals:
14. Dane Running
Dane Running is a Senior Account Executive at Crossbeam. As an advocate for partnerships amongst sales professionals, he gives insight into how partnerships folks can get their sales colleagues excited about co-selling.
Follow if you like…SaaS sales, co-selling:
15. Allan Adler
Allan Adler is Managing Partner at Digital Bride Partners, a partner ecosystem boutique management consulting firm. He is also the Ecosystems Council Chair at Partnerhacker and the creator of the GoToEcosystem and GoToEcoOps frameworks.
Follow if you like…go-to-ecosystem strategy, ecosystem ops,
16. Sara Du
Sara Du is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alloy Automation, a no-code e-commerce automation tool. She was named by a 2022 Retail Tech Power Player Business Insider and has been featured by Forbes.
Follow if you like…APIs, e-commerce, automation
17. Yunita Hollinger
Yunita Hollinger is Director of Alliances at Odaseva, a Salesforce enterprise data platform. She previously worked at headless commerce platform Nacelle as Senior Partner Alliances Manager.
Follow if you like…strategic partnerships
18. Nelson Wang
Nelson Wang is the Head of Americas Partnerships at cloud collaboration platform Airtable. He also works as a career coach as the founder of 30 Day Dream Job, where he is a champion for folks looking to work in partnerships, and is the former Head of Worldwide Channel Partnerships at Miro, an online collaborative whiteboard platform.
Follow if you like…partnerships career coaching, leadership, channel partnerships
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