Sarah Wieskus is the Intel General Manager of Commercial Client Sales. She manages a global technical & segment team of experts focused on the sales and deployment of Intel’s commercial client solutions and technologies in the commercial marketplace. Previous to that she was the acting GM of the manufacturing influencer sales vertical. In that leadership role, she was responsible to drive the vertical sales strategy across all the business units Intel represents (client, datacenter, storage, networking, IOT, etc). She was responsible for a group of geographically based manufacturing sales directors that worked to maximize Intel’s footprint with manufacturing end users accounts.

Sarah started her career with Intel over 20 years ago. She has held numerous sales & technical roles in both consumer & enterprise segments. Sarah has managed teams for many years and is passionate about building and developing diverse & inclusive teams. Sarah is the co-founder of Women Leading in Technology (WLit) focused on the advancement of women in technology.  http://www.mhta.org/educate/wlit/

In addition to Intel, Sarah spent several years at one of IBM’s largest partners as a technical server specialist and drove the implementation of virtualization and server blade technology when it was in its infancy. She was also a chipset designer at Cray/Silicon Graphics Inc.  Sarah has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from South Dakota State University.  Sarah has been married for over 20 years, has 3 children and is based in Minnesota where she enjoys boating, camping and cheering for the Minnesota Vikings.