Los Angeles, CA, May 17, 2023 - Evocative, a global provider of Internet infrastructure, announces that Renée Lawrence, VP, Global Marketing, is named among those honored in CRN’s 2023 Women of the Channel List. The Women of the Channel List is an annual award published by CRN, a media brand of The Channel Company, which recognizes the technology industry’s leading female executives with exceptional skills and channel experience.
In CRN’s 2023 awards, Renée Lawrence is included for the commendable work she has done throughout her career and as Evocative’s VP, Global Marketing. Since joining Evocative in 2022, Renée has led the company’s global marketing organization, brand strategy, corporate communications, partner marketing and product management. Throughout her career, Renée has held executive positions in the technology industry and has led successful marketing, operations and product organizations.
“It is an honor to be recognized among my peers as a channel executive by CRN,” said Renée Lawrence. “When I joined Evocative last year, I set high goals for our organization including a complete corporate rebrand. I am so proud of the dedication of my team and our ability to execute many programs in a time of extreme growth for our company. I am appreciative of the recognition CRN gives to the many talented women of our industry.”
Renée has 25 years of channel experience and executive leadership in data center operations, IT infrastructure technologies, managed services, product lifecycle management, and global channel development. Renée is also an advisor to the Nomad Futurist Foundation. In 2022, Renée worked to create and enact brand awareness and channel campaigns to rebrand Evocative from VPLS, which resulted in a successful strategy alignment and rebrand launch. During the rebrand, Renée focused Evocative’s corporate messaging on its data center portfolio and full suite of digital infrastructure solutions including bare metal, enterprise cloud and managed services solutions.
Evocative is acknowledged by CRN as one of the Elite 150 in its 2023 MSP 500 list and is named one of CRN's 10 Data Center Companies You Need to Watch in 2023.