Azi Handley is a passionate Sales Executive specializing in complex Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud projects. She joined the Kyndryl team in December 2022, as the VP, Global Alliance Leader for VMware. • In early 2023, she moved to a new role managing VMware, RedHat, Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow, NVIDIA, AMD and Five9 partnership globally.

Azi has over 24 years of experience in sales, business development, go to market and consulting services. She focuses on cross-alliance partnerships, with the goal to modernize and optimize Kyndryl’s clients’ environments. She does that through partnerships with Kyndryl Consult, Kyndryl Bridge, Kyndryl Vital, Cloud Practice and all the hyperscalers, accelerating Cloud consumption. She also works very closely with Kyndryl Network and Edge, AD&AI, DWS, Security and  Resiliency practices as her business runs across multiple Kyndryl practices.

Prior to joining Kyndryl, she was the Global Sales Leader at VMware managing IBM partnership for almost 5 years. In this role she led all partnership aspect of IBM Cloud business, including new offerings, GTM, business development, enablement and brand management leveraging a global team of Business Development Executives focused on the IBM Cloud partnership. Prior to VMware she held leadership roles at IBM, Densify and Platform Computing (pre-IBM- Acquisition).

Her passion doesn’t stop at all things Cloud, she loves to read, travel and walk. She maintains an average of 5 Miles daily walks. She also enjoys volunteering and giving back to her community focusing on battered women and child abuse centers. She supports mentorship programs for younger adults to promote a more diverse and inclusive work environment for our future generation.