Karen Hayward

With over a decade of experience in Cloud computing, Karen has been instrumental in building and defining CenterBeam’s sales organization, sales processes and lead generation as CenterBeam’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer. In 2010, Ms. Hayward was distinguished by CRN as one of the "Power 100: The Most Powerful Women of the Channel." Ms. Hayward was recognized for driving top-line revenue growth and revving up CenterBeam's social media program. In 2008, CenterBeam was honored with a DemandGen Top 10 Award for "Using Sales and Marketing automation to fuel Corporate Growth" and received Stevie Finalist recognition for "Best Marketing Department" from the American Business Awards. In 2004, Selling (a monthly publication of Institutional Investor) selected Ms. Hayward as its “Selling All-Star.” Ms. Hayward has also been a featured speaker at Interop 2007, On24 Webcast on Lead Farming, and a guest lecturer at CSU Hayward.
Ms. Hayward holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.