Dana Sowders

Security Sales Manager, IBM

Denver

Dana is a results-driven, award-winning sales professional with over 12 years of experience in information technology. Dana has over nine and half collective years at IBM comprised of various leadership roles and responsibilities. She has assisted clients with large multi-national and transformational projects, including but not limited to: ERP selection and implementation, secure cloud optimization and transformation, intelligent cost reduction, field asset optimization, and building out security operations center strategies for her clients. She also spent two years at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she was responsible for driving over $40M annually in net new sales of services, servers, storage and networking equipment.

Dana’s current charter is managing a team of professional sellers responsible for the success of IBM’s cyber security solutions across the Western Region. Dana holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business with a Minor in Spanish from Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota. Outside of the office, Dana enjoys spending time with her family and friends, crossfitting, running, international travel and culture, and staying active as a mother of two beautiful daughters, Devin (3) and Kate (1.5). She also spends time as a P-TECH volunteer and mentor, at University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business, mentor for the Professional Selling Course, and a University of Denver, Daniels College of Business, mentor.

Recent accomplishments:

• 1H 2018: 133%; 2H 2017: 287%; 1H 2017: 132%; 2H 2016: 339%

• Telco, Media and Entertainment Eminence Spotlight Award, Q3 2018

• 2018 Best of IBM, the highest honor awarded to the top 1,000 professionals globally

• Excellence and Eminence Award, December 2017: Top Rated Manager, awarded to the top 55 globally

• 2017 100% Club

• Excellence and Eminence Award, December 2016: Restlessly Reinvent IBM and Ourselves

• 2015 100% Club