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Business Wire
12-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
CRN Recognizes Trellix Partner Program with 2025 Women of the Channel List
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Trellix, the company delivering the future of AI-powered cybersecurity, today announced CRN ®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized sixteen Trellix leaders on the 2025 Women of the Channel list for their expertise and dedication in advancing channel excellence and supporting the success of Trellix partners and customers. 'CRN's recognition highlights Trellix's breadth of accomplished channel leaders who are driving successful initiatives aligned with our partners' strategic goals,' said Kurt Mills, Global Channel Chief, Trellix. The annual CRN list celebrates women from vendors, distributors, and solution providers whose strategic vision and execution make a positive difference in the technology industry. The CRN 2025 Women of the Channel honorees are innovative, strategic leaders committed to advancing successful outcomes for their partners and customers. The complete list of Trellix honorees includes: Sylvie Arendt, Software Channel Sales Account Representative Ayeesha Basha, Channel Program Manager Melissa Burk, National Partner Manager Elizabeth Carlin, Channel Partner Executive Nicole Chovan, Senior Manager, Channel Sales Kristin Eckels, Channel Global Alliance Manager Jackie Grifka, Channel Account Manager, Federal Sara Harold, Director, Global Partner Marketing Kelly Heffernan, Director, Global Channel Enablement Kelley Lansing, Associate Field Marketing Manager Elizabeth Laurin, Channel Manager GHE Sheri Leach, Global Senior Distribution Account Manager Gaye Lockwood, Senior Director, Global Business Development and Emerging Markets Jennifer Michel, Senior Partner Marketing Manager Martha Vazquez, Technology Partnerships Manager Carmen Villalobos, OEM Strategic Accounts 'CRN's recognition highlights Trellix's breadth of accomplished channel leaders who are driving successful initiatives aligned with our partners' strategic goals,' said Kurt Mills, Global Channel Chief, Trellix. 'Their expertise, strategic thinking, exceptional execution, and commitment to excellence enable us to continue to deliver exceptional results and grow our Xtend Global Channel Partner Program.' 'It's an honor to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of these women, who are leaders and change-makers in the IT channel,' said Jennifer Follett, VP, U.S. Content and Executive Editor, CRN at The Channel Company. 'Each woman spotlighted on this list has shown exceptional dedication to building creative strategies that propel transformation, growth, and success for their organizations and the entire IT channel. We are pleased to spotlight their important contributions and look forward to their future success.' The 2025 Women of the Channel will be featured in the June issue of CRN Magazine, with online coverage beginning May 12 at About The Channel Company The Channel Company (TCC) is the global leader in channel growth for the world's top technology brands. We accelerate success across strategic channels for tech vendors, solution providers, and end users with premier media brands, integrated marketing and event services, strategic consulting, and exclusive market and audience insights. TCC is a portfolio company of investment funds managed by EagleTree Capital, a New York City-based private equity firm. For more information, visit Follow The Channel Company: X and LinkedIn © 2025. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, Inc. All rights reserved. About Trellix Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity and soulful work. The company's comprehensive, open and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today's most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at Follow Trellix on LinkedIn and X.
Reuters
31-01-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Israeli startups make global plans after key role in war
TEL AVIV, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The drone that tracked Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and filmed him as he lay dying, opens new tab in footage beamed around the world last October was made by Israeli startup Xtend, according to media reports, one of many such firms to get a boost from Israel's war needs. Xtend's co-founder and CEO Aviv Shapira declined to comment on the unsourced reports, but told Reuters his company provides indoor drones to the Israeli army, which has looked beyond just major manufacturers for a cutting edge in its assault on Gaza that followed Hamas' deadly attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Xtend drones integrate artificial intelligence to conduct high-precision strikes, and can be operated from 9,000 kilometres (5,600 miles) away with minimal human intervention. "We're actually re-learning how to fight with robots," Shapira said in an interview. The Israeli Defence Force and Israeli defence ministry declined to comment on the equipment used to target Sinwar. In Ukraine, startups making drones and other military technology and equipment have proliferated, and helped it hold off much larger Russian forces. Small, nimble companies with a focus on innovation have proved vital in a war where rapid solutions can trump years of design and product testing. Startups are a "group of few people that can do something in weeks", and war creates an urgency for immediately usable technology, said military expert Isaac Ben-Israel. Israel already had a thriving startup scene, meaning its companies may be better placed to capitalise on the wartime boom, with some already winning orders from abroad and aiming to shape the battlefield of the future. In less than a year and a half of war, Xtend has signed a major contract with Israel's defence ministry, raised $40 million in its second funding round in August, and signed an $8.8 million contract with the U.S. government, Shapira said. Sequoia Capital, a U.S. venture capital fund managing around $85 billion focusing on early-stage investment, returned to investing in Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks, having previously not invested in companies there since 2016. "War gives people experience," Sequoia partner Shawn Mcguire told Reuters. High-tech is Israel's economic engine, accounting for 16% of employment, more than half of exports, a third of income taxes, and 20% of overall economic output. 'NEW CAPABILITIES' Xtend's Shapira was carrying his surfboard to the beach on Oct. 7 when he heard sirens warning of incoming rockets from Gaza. In less than 12 hours, he had dispatched a fleet of drones to help search and secure buildings, he said, in the kind of rapid response essential in emergencies. Since the start of the war, Israel's defence ministry has been working with startups "to improve and deploy new capabilities for our forces in the field," Colonel Nir Weingold, head of planning, economics and IT at the ministry's Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D), told Reuters. The ministry has a "green path" for selected startups under which it fast-tracks its licensing process, and said it awarded orders to 101 startups and small companies to support the war effort totalling 782 million shekels ($219 million) between Oct. 7, 2023, and the end of 2024. More than 25 of those startups had transitioned from development to production due to the war, it said, adding around 50% of anti-drone technology used by Israel's military during the conflict came from startups. This collaboration was on display at the first-ever Global DefenseTech conference organised by the DDR&D with the Blavatnik Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University that showcased dozens of startups, catching the eye of major multi-nationals. "War is good for business and Israel has been a major partner," said Ayal Somech, head of growth and innovation at Boeing Israel, on a panel at the conference. Anti-drone technology has been a particular challenge for Israeli forces as they have faced different hardware in attacks from Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran, and the Houthis in Yemen. Lior Segal, the co-founder of Israel's Thirdeye Systems, which makes advanced warning systems for attack drones, told Reuters that its contacts with Israel's defence ministry went from development phase to winning "meaningful contracts" during the war. The company, whose shares have risen about 50% since the start of the conflict, said it now had seven-to-eight product lines, compared with around three before the war. On Tuesday, Thirdeye, whose customers include NATO countries as well as Israel, said it had sold a 30% stake to Emirati state-owned defence conglomerate EDGE for $10 million, in a rare public investment by an Emirati firm in Israel. The investment will help Thirdeye expand into new markets, Segal said in a statement, though it is contingent on approval from Israel's defence ministry and other milestones. ($1 = 3.5765 shekels)
