Renee Taylor
Name: Renee Taylor
Job Title: Vice President, Global Alliances and Channels at Rackspace
Tenure in Role: One year
Previous Experience: Various roles at consultancy Capgemini, ending as the lead for business development and strategic alliances related to Amazon Web Services; 18 years at Hewlett-Packard.
Key Accomplishment: Offering Rackspace channel partners guidance through a year of tumult within the company. Even as Rackspace waffled between selling parts of the company or dividing into two business units, and amid the sudden resignation of CEO Kevin Jones, Taylor remained a steady presence for partners.
What Makes Her a Leader: Taking on the role of Rackspace channel chief after Lisa McLin departed and building closer relationships with partners. Taylor has been instrumental in beefing up the cloud computing managed service provider’s work with technology solutions brokerages.
