Susan Bowen

Vice president for EMEA and Cogeco Peer 1

Career history: Chief of staff at HPE; director of sales strategy and operations at HP; managing print services business manager at HP.

Measure of influence: Holds all fiduciary and business responsibilities for trading and providing services to more than 1,000 customers within EMEA.

Activities to advance women in the channel: Chair of TechUK's Women in Tech council; works with the government to recruit women in digital roles

Who is your role model or career mentor and why?

While I've had the good fortune of working with some great leaders, the most exemplar has to be Meg Whitman, CEO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She has an energy and work ethic that are simply unequaled.