Rackspace Technology Inc.

01/21/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/21/2022 14:17

Our New Channel Partner Leaders Unveil What’s Next in 2022

Rackspace Technology® is excited to announce the appointment of Renee Taylor as Vice President of Global Alliances and Channel Chief, and Vicki Patten's promotion to Director of Channel Sales and Agent Channel Chief.

Renee Taylor

Renee brings 25 years of accomplishments in leadership, sales, alliances, business development, driving growth in IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Digital Transformation with Enterprise, Federal, and Public Sector accounts.

"I am thrilled to be a part of this incredible organization and group of partners," said Renee Taylor, Vice President of Global Alliances and Channel Chief. "I look forward to spending quality time with our Rackspace partners and understanding where we can continue to support you in your rapidly transforming businesses, providing world-class solutions and fanatical support throughout 2022 and into the future."

Renee comes to Rackspace from Capgemini®, where she served as the Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) Partner Sales Executive and Cloud Portfolio Alliance leader. Prior to Capgemini, she's held Sales and Partner management roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise®.

Renee is a Management and Marketing graduate of Georgia State University. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is married with two very independent young ladies who inspire her every day. She enjoys tennis, boating, and traveling.

Vicki Patten

Vicki Patten, a veteran Racker, was also recently promoted to Director of Channel Sales and Agent Channel Chief. Vicki started her journey helping partners grow as a Reseller Account Manager with Zenith Data Systems™ in Chicago, IL.

With over 30 years in the Technology industry, Vicki has been helping companies solve problems in IT and partners to transform and grow their business. "I look forward to continuing to build business continuity and grow partnerships in the Channel that allow our Partners to thrive and bring immense value to their customers," said Vicki Patten, Director of Channel Sales and Agent Channel Chief.

In August of 2017, Vicki joined Rackspace to focus on the growth of the Channel program and expand relationships with our strategic technology broker partners. In addition, she recently served as a Global Partner Manager, helping develop the Channel Program globally within Rackspace and our partners.

She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and is a Husker through and through. She is married to her college sweetheart, Rich. Her most treasured accomplishment is raising two thriving kids, living life their way. Her passion is mental health awareness, letting people know that it is okay to talk about mental health problems, and encouraging those struggling to get the proper help.

What's Next

After coming off 40% growth in 2021, Rackspace will continue to provide a Fanatical Experience™ for our Channel Partners.

Our plans for 2022:

  • A higher level of support for strategic partners.
  • Consistent and improved communications.
  • Better analytics for enhanced productivity.
  • Improve sales campaign tools.
  • Consistent strategies and solutions for the Rackspace portfolio

You'll see both Renee and Vicki at the 2022 Channel Partner EXPO April 11-14 in Las Vegas, NV. They'll be at The Venetian® in the meeting room Bellini 2005.

The Rackspace Partner Program provides partners with one of the industry's most robust portfolios of managed IT services and expertise across the leading private and public clouds, application services, managed hosting, colocation, and managed security,

At Rackspace, we aspire to provide the support and flexibility you need so that you can better serve your customers, build loyalty, and create new revenue opportunities. We combine our expertise with the world's leading technologies across applications, data, and security.

We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.

Everything we do is wrapped in our obsession with our customers' success, our Fanatical Experience™, so they can work faster, smarter and stay ahead of what's next.