Corporate Officers | Sales Leadership Strategic Solutions and Services Leadership Christina M. Corley, Senior Vice President, Corporate Sales Christina V. Rother, Senior Vice President, Public and Advanced Technology Sales Jill M. Billhorn, Vice President, Small Business Bob F. Kirby, Vice President, Federal and State and Local Sales Andrew W. Lausch, Vice President, Higher Education Sean McGilloway, Vice President, East Region Bob J. Rossi, Vice President, Healthcare Sales Brett A. Schmidt, Vice President, West Region Julie A. Smith, Vice President, K-12 Education Sales William T. Weaver, Group Vice President, Advanced Technologies Alan B. Weiss, Vice President, Central Region Christina M. Corley Senior Vice President, Corporate Sales Christina Corley is senior vice president of corporate sales and executive committee member of CDW, a leading provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. Corley is responsible for managing all aspects of CDW's corporate sales force, including sales force strategy, structure, goals, operations, revenue generation and training and development. Prior to joining CDW in 2011, Corley was president and chief operating officer of Zones, Inc., where she also served as executive vice president of operations and as president of Corporate PC Source (CPCS), a wholly owned subsidiary. Prior to its acquisition by Zones in 2003, Corley was the chief executive officer of CPCS and with her partners grew it to a $100 million company. Corley began her career in sales and marketing holding various positions at IBM, Dataflex and VisionTek. Corley earned a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. in management and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Back to top Christina V. Rother Senior Vice President, Public and Advanced Technology Sales Chris Rother is senior vice president of public and advanced technology sales and executive committee member of CDW, a leading provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. Rother is responsible for managing all aspects of CDW's public sector and advanced technology sales forces, including sales force strategy, structure, goals, operations, revenue generation and training and development. Rother joined the company in 1991 as an entry-level account manager and quickly rose through the ranks. In 1998, she participated on the team that created CDW-G and in 2002 was appointed vice president for education and state and local sales. Rother's responsibilities were expanded in 2005, when she was chosen to lead the company's newly formed healthcare sales team. She was promoted to group vice president in 2006 for CDW-G until assuming her current roles as senior vice president and president of CDW-G in 2009. Prior to joining the company, Rother held a number of sales positions with technology companies including Laser Computers and Price Electronics. Rother earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to fostering educational improvements through her work with the company, she also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois. Back to top Jill M. Billhorn Vice President, Small Business Jill Billhorn is vice president of small business for CDW, a leading provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. Billhorn is responsible for driving revenue in CDW's small business market, leading the small business sales team and ensuring small business customer engagement excellence. Prior to joining CDW in 2010, Billhorn served in a number of leadership roles at various organizations. Most recently, she was a managing director at Holden International where she was responsible for business development. Prior to Holden, Billhorn spent 18 years managing and developing successful sales organizations for organizations such as AT&T, Ameritech and MCI. As sales center vice president with AT&T, she was responsible for significantly growing a $200 million revenue base consisting of telecommunications services provided to many of the top 50 customers headquartered in Chicago. Billhorn earned a B.S. in English from the University of Illinois – Champaign in 1983. Presently, Billhorn serves on the board of directors for the Namaste Charter School and actively supports youth fitness organizations such as Girls on the Run, where she serves as a site coordinator and coach. Back to top Bob F. Kirby Vice President, Federal and State and Local Sales Bob Kirby is vice president of federal and state and local sales for CDW Government (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW, and a leading provider of technology solutions to government, education and healthcare. Kirby is responsible for leading the team of sales and account managers focused on ensuring that federal and state and local customers have the best experience possible with CDW-G. Kirby joined the company in 1998 as director of marketing, a role he held until 2002, when he transitioned to the sales department as director of corporate sales for CDW. In 2005, Kirby was promoted to senior director of corporate sales, a role he held until assuming the role of senior director of K-12 education sales in 2006. Prior to assuming his current role in 2011, Kirby served as vice president of K-12 sales. Prior to CDW, Kirby worked at IBM Corporation, where he held various marketing and sales positions of increasing responsibility between 1989 and 1998. Kirby is a 1989 graduate of Northwestern University's School of Engineering, where he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and a 1996 graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he earned an M.B.A. in marketing and international business. Back to top Andrew W. Lausch Vice President, Higher Education Andy Lausch is vice president of higher education sales for CDW Government (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW, and a leading provider of technology solutions to government, education and healthcare. Lausch is responsible for the performance, strategic direction, talent development and customer advocacy of CDW-G's higher education division. Lausch joined the company in 1998 as an account manager and quickly ascended the ranks. During the past 12 years, Lausch has held several management positions within CDW-G. From 2003 through 2005, Lausch was director of CDW-G's Sales Academy, where he created and developed CDW's public sector on-boarding and training program. In 2005, Lausch transitioned to lead CDW-G's state and local government division, where he achieved strong double-digit growth during his tenure. Prior to assuming his current role in 2011, Lausch was vice president of CDW-G’s federal government division where he orchestrated significant operational improvements in the business, again leading to strong double-digit growth. Lausch holds a B.S. in psychology from University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Back to top Sean McGilloway Vice President, East Region Sean McGilloway is vice president of the east region for CDW, a leading provider of technology products solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. In this capacity, McGilloway leads the sales team responsible for ensuring that customers in the east region have the best experience possible with CDW. McGilloway is an IT industry veteran, with more than two decades of experience. He joined the CDW team in 2003, having previously served as vice president of corporate sales and sales director at MicroWarehouse between 1992 and 2003. Additionally, McGilloway held sales positions of increasing responsibility with Computronics, On-Line Software, Egghead Software and ComputerMarketPlace. He also served as principal owner of Digital Doctors, a start-up healthcare VAR and service provider, from 2000 to 2003. McGilloway earned both a B.A. in marketing/communications and an M.B.A. in information systems from Iona College. Back to top Bob J. Rossi Vice President, Healthcare Sales Bob Rossi is vice president of healthcare sales for CDW Healthcare, a leading provider of technology solutions to healthcare organizations. Rossi is responsible for creating and executing the go-to-market strategy, driving sales growth and expanding vendor partnerships to serve a variety of clients across the public and private sectors. Rossi joined CDW in 1994 focused on furthering CDW's penetration into the commercial IT space. After four years of contributing to the successful growth of CDW's profile in the private sector, Rossi was named as the first director of federal sales for CDW Government, CDW's public sector subsidiary. In July 2005, Rossi took his current position to lead CDW's efforts to execute the strategy for the company's Healthcare division. In 2009, he was promoted to vice president of CDW Healthcare. Rossi holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Northern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Back to top Brett A. Schmidt Vice President, West Region Brett Schmidt is vice president of the west region for CDW, a leading provider of technology products solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. Schmidt is responsible for leading sales efforts for the company's medium and large business market segments within a 13-state region. Additionally, Schmidt is responsible for the sales and marketing activities within the non-profit community, overseeing a team exclusively focused on associations, foundations, faith-based organizations and social service groups. Schmidt joined CDW in 1992 as an account manager and, prior to assuming his current role in 2006, held various positions of increasing responsibility in both the corporate and public sector sales organizations. Additionally, he has made significant contributions in the development of segmentation models for various business units along with successfully developing highly effective sales teams. A graduate of Northern Illinois University, Schmidt earned a B.S. in marketing and business management. Back to top Julie A. Smith Vice President, K-12 Education Sales Julie Smith is vice president of K-12 sales for CDW Government (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW, and a leading provider of technology solutions to government, education and healthcare. Smith is responsible for the long- and short-term performance goals, strategic direction, business initiatives and professional development of the K-12 education division. Prior to assuming her current role, Smith was vice president of higher education sales for CDW-G. In this position, she held responsibility for the division’s performance goals and strategic direction. During her time leading higher education, Smith was instrumental in the launch of the CDW-G 21st Century Campus report. The report, now in its third iteration, provides a broad market overview of the technologies on college campuses from the perspectives of IT professionals, students and faculty. Due to the success of that program, the research was expanded to include K-12 schools in the companion 21st Century Classroom report. Smith has presented the findings of this research with customers and CDW-G interns at numerous industry tradeshows and events. Smith has also held the role of director of education field sales, in which she was responsible for building a field base team throughout the United States to work closely with educational institutions to achieve their goals. Prior to joining CDW-G, Smith served as senior director of public sector state, local and education for Comark Government and Education Sales. She maintains close relationships with the company's vendor partners such as Adobe, Acer, Cisco, HP, Lenovo, NetApp and Sony. Smith also serves as a member of the board for the Associated Colleges of Illinois. Back to top William T. Weaver Group Vice President, Advanced Technologies Bill Weaver is group vice president of advanced technologies for CDW, a leading provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. Weaver is responsible for leading CDW's branch office sales teams selling unified communications, virtualization and other advanced technology solutions. Most recently, Weaver served as group vice president of med/lar sales, in which his primary focus was to further strengthen CDW's position in these segments and expand to new markets and customers. Weaver joined CDW in August 2007 and brings more than 20 years of experience. As vice president, U.S. enterprise sales, Technology Solutions Group for Hewlett-Packard, he was responsible for revenue and margin growth for enterprise, mid-market and public sector businesses. He led the U.S. Enterprise Team's transformation to a "solutions-based" sales force and was also responsible for the technology group call centers, system integrator team and several industry verticals. Prior to his role with Hewlett-Packard, Weaver acted as regional vice president of Compaq, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002. Back to top Alan B. Weiss Vice President, Central Region Alan Weiss is vice president of the central region for CDW, a leading provider of technology products solutions to business, government, education and healthcare. In this capacity, Weiss leads the sales team responsible for ensuring that customers in the central region have the best experience possible with CDW. Weiss joined CDW in 1991 as an account manager and prior to assuming his current role in 2006, held various positions of increasing responsibility in both the sales and marketing departments. Weiss served as sales manager for CDW beginning in 1994 and played a pivotal role in the creation of the company's first outbound division in 1995. He is also credited with initiating the company's network specialist team in 1998 and the first pre-sales and technical sales specialist teams in 1999. In 2000, Weiss was promoted to sales director and continued his focus on enhancing CDW's ability to design enterprise class solutions. In 2003, Weiss served as senior director of product management in CDW's marketing department, where he oversaw all aspects of the company's product marketing and partner development groups. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Weiss earned a B.S. in psychology. Back to top