Marjorie Abdelkrime
Marjorie Abdelkrime is a believer of "Starting with Why", she wants to make a change in the world. Marjorie’s why of empowering women in the workplace started due to the limited number of female mentors and role models she encountered in early in her career. Marjorie believes that the days of a woman climbing up the ladder and not taking the rest of us along for the ride are long gone. By being an outspoken leader in the world of empowering women, she hopes to empower women both in leadership and technology.
Marjorie has keynoted at several tech conferences on the importance of empowering women in leadership and tech. Marjorie consistently blogs about topics relevant to increasing diversity in tech. Marjorie is an Advisor for the PreSales Collective. PreSales Collective (PSC) is a community made up of Sales Engineers, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects, Value Engineers, PreSales Leaders - and anyone looking to begin a career in PreSales. As part of PSC, she aims to assist PreSales professionals with the resources, knowledge, network, and mentorship to develop long, impactful careers in PreSales.
She is a Business Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience managing and growing software sales, consulting businesses, service solution creation, and customer service excellence by leveraging technology solutions to resolve business problems. Today Marjorie leads the Multi-Cloud Strategy & Architecture team at VMware. Her mission at VMware is to partner with the SE leadership team to build a team of innovative, independent, and collaborative SEs that shepherd our customers through the era of digital transformation with VMware.
Marjorie co-leads women empowerment initiatives. She has initiated chapters comprised of women and men who volunteer their time and talent to work at helping to increase the number of women in leadership, sales, and technical roles. The mission of these groups is to build an inclusive and supportive environment for all team members in achieving their career goals.