Alexandra Tempest
Director of partners at Talk Talk Business
Career history: Director of systems integrators EMEA at Juniper; Dell alliance director at Juniper Networks; director of EMEA alliance strategy at Juniper.
Measure of influence: Responsible for more than 850 resellers. At TalkTalk Business, Alex is responsible for managing a partner community of over 850 resellers and oversees team of over 30 partner account managers.
Activities to advance women in tech: Oversees Talk Talk coding classes and part of Light Reading's Women in Comms group.
What are the key business benefits of having a diverse workforce in general?
New ideas and different perspectives are always important. Having proper diversity in our workforce means that background or gender doesn't get in the way of TalkTalk Business hiring the very best people out there.
Top 50 most influential women in the UK channel
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