Microsoft’s Toni Townes-Whitley To Receive Coveted IES Lifetime Achievement in Sales Award
The Institute for Excellence in Sales (IES) will honor Toni Townes-Whitley, Microsoft’s president for US Regulated Industries, as the recipient of its 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award. Townes-Whitley’s contributions and legacy to the sales community will be celebrated at the IES 2021 Sales Excellence Award Event on June 3.
Townes-Whitley is one of the principal women leaders at Microsoft and in the technology industry, with a track record for accelerating and sustaining profitable business and building high-performance teams. She currently leads the company’s US sales strategy for driving digital transformation across customers and partners within the public sector and commercial regulated industries—education, financial services, government and health & life sciences.
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“As the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, it’s my honor to congratulate Toni Townes-Whitley on her receipt of the 2021 Award”
In addition to managing a 4,900-plus sales organization and ~$15B P&L across the United States, Townes-Whitley is very involved in Microsoft’s corporate commitments and efforts to help tackle big societal issues like inclusion, sustainability, fundamental rights and trust, and with the company’s investments aimed at responsible AI, digital skilling and broadband access. She is also helping steer the company’s work to address systemic racial injustice.
She serves on the boards of the PNC Financial Services Group, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the Partnership for Public Service, United Way Worldwide, and the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative. She is also an advisor to the Women’s Center of Northern Virginia, and a past president and board chair of Women in Technology. Townes-Whitley continues to support the U.S. Peace Corps, for which she volunteered as a village teacher in Central Africa.
The IES Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a visionary leader and world-class executioner of sales excellence. Annual recipients are recognized for their substantial careers in sales leadership at the highest levels of major organizations, a legacy of protégé success and a demonstrated commitment to the sales profession. The annual Lifetime Achievement recipient is chosen by a panel of industry-leading peers and former recipients of the prestigious award.
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“As the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, it’s my honor to congratulate Toni Townes-Whitley on her receipt of the 2021 Award,” said Craig P. Abod, Carahsoft President. “Toni’s leadership is helping Microsoft’s government customers benefit from the scale and services available in the cloud to meet their mission goals. We commend her on this and applaud her for being recognized by the IES.”
“Toni Townes-Whitley is an inspirational leader and valued strategic partner in our industry,” said Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP NS2. “Her commitment to driving innovative customer digital transformation and creating positive societal impact are second to none. Toni is a well-deserving recipient of the 2021 IES Lifetime Achievement Award.”
“As a valued partner to the government and Dell Technologies, I’ve had the pleasure of working with Toni,” said Steve Harris, SVP & GM, Dell Technologies Public Sector. “She exemplifies the best of our industry—a caring and passionate leader making a demonstrable societal impact that reaches across the technology community. Toni could not be more deserving of this honor from the IES.”
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