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Rachana is the Chief Marketing Officer, Director of Sales, Marketing and Channel Partnerships at Hexnode. As the CMO, Rachana is responsible for leading the company’s global marketing operations. She believes in pushing the horizons of creativity and engaging in fruitful collaborations that lead to exciting work.

Before joining Hexnode, she has held technical and leadership roles in Zoho and FCA. With an engineering background and a master’s in business administration, Rachana’s analytical skills and decisiveness translate well into her role in Marketing. She is also deeply passionate about cutting-edge technology, gender equity and inclusion, and often encourages young girls to break the glass ceiling.

Jay McBain is one of the most visible and respected thought leaders in the global channel. Named 2021 Channel Influencer of the Year by Channel Partners Magazine, Top 40 Under Forty by the Business Review, as well as numerous channel magazines' top influencer lists, he is often sought out for industry guidance and future trends. He has spent his 28-year career in various executive channel sales, marketing, and strategy roles within IBM, Lenovo, Autotask, ChannelEyes, and Forrester. Jay is the chief analyst at Canalys - the world's leading research firm with a distinct focus on channels, partnerships, alliances, and ecosystems.

Heather K. Margolis is Senior Vice President of Marketing at 360insights. Formerly, Heather was the Founder and CEO of Spark Your Channel, creators of a through-channel marketing automation platform, and Founder and Chairperson of Channel Maven Consulting, a strategic channel marketing agency. Both companies were acquired by 360insights in November 2021. Heather is a recognized channel marketing expert and a sought-after keynote speaker to a variety of audiences about entrepreneurship, building a service-based business and B2B strategy, B2B marketing and channel marketing.

A self-proclaimed "recovering channel professional," Heather is passionate about enabling vendors to drive sales through their channel partners. She spent several years in channel programs and marketing for big-brand tech companies like EMC, EqualLogic, and Dell before forming Channel Maven Consulting in March of 2009 to provide strategic channel marketing “to” and partner demand generation “with” IT and telecom channel organizations of all sizes. Heather has a master’s degree in business administration from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Boulder, Colo., where she can usually be found hiking, working out, or hanging with her two girls!

John is a renowned B2B sales influencer and an award winning author. He has had a long and successful sales and management career selling technology and software based solutions. In recent years he founded Sales Leader Forums and Sales Masterminds APAC, both focused on assisting B2B selling organisations to transform the way they sell. John recently co-authored a best selling sales novel titled The Wentworth Prospect, an insightful story of how a small cybersecurity software provider sold to a large bank.

Rachael Taplin a well-known businesswoman and entrepreneur; previously recognised as one of the top 50 UK Inspirational Women in the UK. She now dedicates her time as The Media Match Maker, training and helping entrepreneurs and business owners to be inspired to use PR and secure publicity for themselves whilst also connecting them direct to the UK media and journalists.

Rachael has launched an Online PR & Media Training platform and the UK’s first media database dedicated to Business Owners and Entrepreneurs.

Rachael has achieved her own personal media exposure within local, regional and national press, on radio and TV, she has also appeared within most of the national glossy magazines and has worked with lots of well know celebrities, so it’s safe to say she knows what’s she’s talking about.

Rachael will cover everything you need to know on how to become a media expert and secure thousands of pounds worth of publicity for next to nothing. Rachael will share with you how from one press release she appeared on over 70 radio stations in one day and was also featured in one the UK’s largest daily newspapers. The principles you can apply and use yourself so that you will soon be gaining media exposure for your business.