Recognizing Leadership Through Strong Technology Partnerships
Jeskell Systems is proud to share that Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Nuckolls has been named a finalist for Alliance Marketing Executive of the Year in the 2026 CRN Women of the Year Awards.
The annual awards recognize women, companies, and allies who are making a meaningful impact across the IT industry through leadership, innovation, and commitment to the channel. Winners will be announced during the CRN Women of the Year Awards Gala on December 8, 2026, in New York City.
Building Stronger Technology Alliances
For Jeskell, strong technology partnerships are essential to solving increasingly complex infrastructure challenges.
Organizations today are managing rapid data growth, evolving cyber threats, AI-driven workloads, hybrid environments, and increasing pressure to modernize without introducing unnecessary risk or complexity. Addressing those challenges requires more than access to technology. It requires the right combination of expertise, collaboration, and alignment between technology providers, solution partners, sales teams, and customers.
That collaborative approach has been central to Nuckolls’ work throughout her career and to her role at Jeskell.
As Chief Marketing Officer, she leads marketing strategy across Jeskell’s Federal and commercial markets, working closely with technology partners to develop joint go-to-market programs, demand generation initiatives, sales enablement resources, and campaigns designed around real customer requirements.
The goal is not simply to promote individual technologies. It is to help connect the capabilities of Jeskell’s partner ecosystem with the data infrastructure challenges organizations are trying to solve.
Connecting Technology to Customer Outcomes
Jeskell works with leading technology providers, including IBM and Red Hat, to help organizations build secure, resilient, and high-performance data environments.
Those partnerships allow Jeskell to help clients address priorities ranging from cyber resilience and data lifecycle management to AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, automation, and storage modernization.
Effective alliance marketing plays an important role in that process. When technology partners and solution providers align around customer needs, organizations gain access to broader expertise and more complete solutions while reducing the complexity involved in evaluating and implementing new technologies.
For Nuckolls, that connection between partnership and customer value has remained a consistent focus.
“I’m incredibly grateful for this recognition,” said Nuckolls. “The best work in our industry happens through strong partnerships, shared goals and people who genuinely want to solve problems together.”
Recognizing Leadership Across the IT Channel
“The finalists for the CRN Women of the Year Awards represent some of the most accomplished and influential leaders across the IT channel,” said Jennifer Follett, VP of U.S. Content and Executive Editor at CRN, The Channel Company. “Their accomplishments reflect the talent, determination, and forward-thinking approach that continue to strengthen our industry. We are honored to recognize their achievements and celebrate the meaningful impact they are making throughout the industry.”
Being named a finalist for Alliance Marketing Executive of the Year reflects the importance of collaboration in an industry where successful customer outcomes often depend on multiple organizations working together.
At Jeskell, that means continuing to strengthen relationships across the technology ecosystem while helping Federal and commercial organizations identify infrastructure strategies that improve performance, protect critical data, and support long-term business and mission requirements.
The complete list of 2026 CRN Women of the Year Awards finalists can be viewed at www.crn.com/women-of-the-year.