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July 17, 2023

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Announcing the 2023 Splunk Partner Awards Winners!

By Gretchen O'Hara

This year, Splunk brings together the best of both worlds with .conf23 and our Global Partner Summit. Splunk’s Global Partner Summit is our leading event focused on empowering Splunk Partners to accelerate their learnings, expand their skill set and practices, foster relationships and celebrate joint success that inspires innovation to help customers build resilience.

The 2023 Splunk Partner Awards highlight partners of the Splunk community for their ability to create positive social impact, deliver breakthrough solutions and showcase customer success. These partners are an integral part of the Splunk Partnerverse, helping our joint customers unlock innovation, fortify security and build up resilience by utilizing Splunk solutions for their unique business needs.

"Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Splunk Global Partner Awards! We are so excited to be celebrating your impact on helping customers innovate, enhance security and improve resilience." –Christian Smith, Splunk, Chief Revenue Officer

We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every Splunk partner for driving successful business outcomes, especially in these challenging times. On behalf of the Splunk Leadership team, we want to celebrate our entire partner community on an outstanding year, as well as congratulate the 2023 Splunk Global and Regional Partner Awards Winners!

2023 Splunk Global Partner Awards Winners

Global Winners

2023 Global Partner of the Year: AWS
2023 Social Impact Partner of the Year: Bitsio
2023 Global Technology Innovation Partner of the Year: Accenture

AMER Winners

2023 AMER Partner of the Year: Optiv
2023 AMER Rising Star Partner of the Year: Technologent
2023 AMER Trailblazer Partner of the Year: Guidepoint Security
2023 AMER Marketing Partner of the Year: deepwatch
2023 AMER Professional Services Partner of the Year: SP6

APAC Winners

2023 APAC Partner of the Year: CyberCX
2023 APAC Rising Star Partner of the Year: NEC
2023 APAC Trailblazer Partner of the Year: Avocado Consulting
2023 APAC Distributor Partner of the Year: Westcon
2023 APAC Professional Services Partner of the Year: km2y

EMEA Winners

2023 EMEA Partner of the Year: Computacenter UK
2023 EMEA Rising Star Partner of the Year: Sferanet
2023 EMEA Trailblazer Partner of the Year: Orange Cyberdefence Sweden AB
2023 EMEA Marketing Partner of the Year: EMET
2023 EMEA Distributor Partner of the Year: Arrow Germany
2023 EMEA Professional Services Partner of the Year: Bright Consulting

Public Sector Winners

2023 PBST Partner of the Year: Blackwood
2023 PBST Rising Star Partner of the Year: RavenTek
2023 PBST Trailblazer Partner of the Year: TekStream
2023 PBST Marketing Partner of the Year: GDIT
2023 PBST Distributor Partner of the Year: Carahsoft
2023 PBST Professional Services Partner of the Year: Qmulos

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Gretchen O'Hara

Gretchen O’Hara is the Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Splunk. She is responsible for evolving Splunk’s channel strategy and ecosystem to improve the customer and partner experience and scaling Splunk solutions to support customers operating in a distributed, hybrid, multicloud world. With more than 25 years of channel sales, marketing alliances and ecosystem development, Gretchen brings a passion for building ecosystems, business building and connecting sales, technical and marketing to deliver world-class solutions that address customers’ most important business outcomes. She has deep experience across all partners and segments from Developers to Global ISVs and Small Business to the Enterprise and Public Sector. She is a people leader, and a channel and customer advocate with a track record of channel transformation, promoting women in STEM and leveraging technology to solve the world’s most vexing sustainability challenges.

Prior to Splunk, Gretchen was the Vice President of AI & Sustainability and Vice President of Go-To-Market for One Commercial Partner at Microsoft where she built billion-dollar businesses. She led the global cloud ecosystem strategy across core cloud solutions and ecosystem transformation to the cloud. She holds a B.A. and executive MBA from University of Washington Foster School of Business, and executive education at Wharton, Cal Tech and London Business School.

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