The recognition highlights the breadth of leadership across ANM and the impact these women have made in driving business growth, strengthening customer and partner relationships, developing high-performing teams, and advancing innovation throughout the organization.
Heidi Van Anderson | Vice President, Special Systems | Woman of the Year
Heidi Van Anderson has played a pivotal role in transforming ANM’s Special Systems business, strengthening engineering, project management, and field operations while building a scalable organization focused on quality, accountability, and customer trust. Over the past year, her leadership has helped customers and channel partners navigate increasingly complex physical security environments spanning infrastructure, cloud, and AI-driven technologies. She has also championed stronger project governance and AI-enabled workflows to improve execution and consistency, while investing heavily in developing emerging leaders, mentoring talent, advocating for women in technology, and creating opportunities for her teams to grow.
Jessica Goin | Director of Sales Administration | Woman of the Year
Jessica Goin has spent the past year leading a team of 20 through significant organizational change while ensuring ANM’s customers, partners, and business continued moving forward without disruption. Her hands-on leadership, focus on process improvement, and commitment to collaboration have helped her team adapt to increased demands while maintaining a high standard of quality and customer service. Jessica’s greatest impact can be seen in the culture she has built: a resilient, accountable, customer-first team that embraces new technology, supports one another, and consistently rises to the challenge.
Amy Gregory | Head of Marketing | Marketing Executive of the Year
As Head of Marketing, Amy Gregory has transformed ANM’s marketing organization into a measurable growth engine, aligning account-based marketing, digital advertising, partner programs, events, webinars, social media, email, and sales outreach to drive stronger engagement and pipeline. Under her leadership, AI and automation enabled the marketing team to expand its impact, strengthen OEM partner alignment, and deliver more targeted and integrated campaigns. Her recognition reflects her strategic leadership and significant contribution to ANM’s growth, channel partnerships, and continued position within the technology industry.
Sarah Cancellare | Director of Sales, NM & TX | Sales Executive of the Year
Sarah Cancellare delivered the strongest sales year of her career in 2025, finishing at 130% of goal before stepping into the Director of Sales role for NM/TX in January 2026. Now leading a team of six while continuing to carry an individual sales territory, Sarah has demonstrated that strong sales performance and leadership can go hand in hand. Her deep channel relationships, ability to connect partners with the right opportunities, and focus on building pipeline have created meaningful business impact for ANM. She also helped organize and execute ANM Tech Day in Albuquerque, bringing together more than 500 attendees and 40+ channel partners and creating new opportunities for ANM’s account teams and partners to collaborate and grow.
“Having four ANM leaders recognized as finalists for the CRN Women of the Year Awards is an incredible reflection of the talent, leadership, and dedication within our organization,” said Raminder Mann, CEO of ANM. “Heidi, Amy, Sarah, and Jessica each bring a unique perspective and strength to ANM, but they share a common commitment to our customers, our partners, and the people they lead. Their accomplishments over the past year have had a meaningful impact on our business, and we are proud to see their leadership recognized at the national level. More importantly, we are proud of the example they set for the next generation of leaders across ANM and the technology industry.”
This is the fourth annual CRN Women of the Year Awards, which spotlight extraordinary women, companies, and allies who demonstrate dedication to advancing the IT industry through their leadership and initiatives each day. The winners of the Women of the Year Awards will be announced at the Awards Gala on December 8, 2026 in New York City.
“The finalists for the CRN Women of the Year Awards represent some of the most accomplished and influential leaders across the IT channel,” said Jennifer Follett, VP of U.S. Content and Executive Editor at CRN, The Channel Company. “Their accomplishments reflect the talent, determination, and forward-thinking approach that continue to strengthen our industry. We are honored to recognize their achievements and celebrate the meaningful impact they are making throughout the industry.”
The Women of the Year Awards Finalists can be viewed online at www.crn.com/women-of-the-year.
About ANM:
ANM is a leading IT solutions provider helping organizations secure, connect, and transform their technology environments. For more than 30 years, ANM has partnered with clients to design, procure, deploy, and manage solutions across networking, cloud, cybersecurity, data center, and modern workplace technologies.
Built on deep engineering expertise and trusted partnerships, ANM delivers practical solutions that reduce risk, simplify operations, and support long-term growth. From consulting and architecture to implementation, managed services, and lifecycle support, ANM helps clients move forward with confidence and stay prepared for what’s next.
ANM is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM and has locations in Casper, WY; Denver, CO; El Paso, TX; Scottsdale, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; Raleigh, NC and Charlotte, NC. We enjoy a 98.6% customer satisfaction rating, as well as excellent employee and customer retention rates.
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