FROM THE INDUSTRY
Empowering Futures: Celebrating International Women’s Day and Progress in the Tech Workplace International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements of women while advocating for gender equality. In recent years, significant strides have been made in the technology workplace, creating a more inclusive environment for women and inspiring young girls to pursue careers in STEM. Each year, Broadband Journal proudly celebrates the considerable achievements of outstanding achievers in our industry to celebrate International Women’s Day. This year we speak to Martha Galley, EVP of Corporate Social Responsibility at Calix, Helen Wylde, Founder and CEO at Cornwall-based altnet, Wildanet, Susanna Kass, Co-Founder at InfraPrime, which provides affordable, clean energy data centres and infrastructure, and Anne-Marie Vine-Lott, Director of Health at Vodafone Business UK.
Martha was previously the Chief Customer Success Officer at Calix responsible for helping customers successfully adopt and realise value from their investments in our strategic products and platform. Prior to this, she held leadership positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Microsoft and Salesforce, where she drove adoption for over 200K customers world-wide for Sales, Marketing and Support cloud products as well as developer tools, with an annual renewal portfolio over $800M. At Microsoft, Martha ran enterprise sales for the majority of her tenure as GM of the business with Verizon. In her last role with Microsoft, Martha built the Telco Partner Channel and Go-to-Market strategy for launching Office365 as part of Value-Added bundles to Small Business customers across all major markets in Latin and South America. She is a graduate of Smith College where she serves on the Presidential Board and is a published scientific author.
Martha Galley, Executive Vice
President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Calix, USA.
even at the best of times was considered slow on the technology adoption curve. But I saw an opportunity and I went for it. Fast forward almost 20 years and Calix called me – specifically the now CEO, Michael Weening, who explained that Calix was on a mission to completely transform the industry and he wanted my help to do it. He said all the right things – transformation, build what I had always wanted to build and do it at a company driven by a higher purpose – helping our customers improve the lives and economic future of the communities they serve. I was hooked.
What first attracted you to the telecoms/broadband industry and how did you get into this business? I started working in the telecoms industry back in 2000, right after the ‘dotcom’ bubble burst. I was at Microsoft. Prior to that, telecoms companies believed that bigger, more complex and expensive solutions were the safe choice, like Sun and IBM. Once the money dried up, they looked for better, faster, less expensive solutions, like those offered by Microsoft. My mentors thought I was crazy to jump into an industry that was imploding, and
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