ben_and_tiffany_quayle


From Young Benny Quayle’s campaign web site:

Ben is married to Tiffany Crane Quayle, an Arizona State University graduate. Tiffany manages Insight Enterprises (an Arizona based Fortune 500 company) for CA and is very active in the Phoenix Women’s Board of the Steele Children’s Research Center.

Now, the bio caught our eye because it’s odd to say someone “manages” a Fortune 500 company. It’s not really a business term on that level.

You “manage” a 7-11.

Fortune 500 companies have directors, or CEOs, or vice presidents, right?

And what does it mean to say someone manages a company for “CA”? She lives in Arizona, right? Does she work in California? Could she head up Insight’s California office, maybe?

And what in the hell is Insight Enterprises?

Turns out it’s not precisely on the Fortune 500, but whatever.

Here’s the company’s corporate profile:

Insight Enterprises, Inc. (Insight) is a provider of information technology (IT) hardware, software and services to small, medium and large businesses and public sector institutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

Sounds pretty important.

Odd, though, that someone who “manages” a “Fortune 500 company” has such a small internet footprint. You don’t find much info on the internets about Tiffany Crane Quayle.

It takes some prowling around before you discover something interesting.

Tiffany Quayle doesn’t work for Insight Enterprises.

She works for a company that until recently was called Computer Associates and is now called …

… CA.

Here’s its profile:

CA, Inc. (CA) is an independent enterprise information technology (IT) software and service company with capabilities across IT environments from mainframe and physical to virtual and cloud. CA develops and delivers software and services that help organizations to manage and secure their IT infrastructures and deliver flexible IT services. CA addresses most of the components of the computing environment, including people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications and databases, regardless of the hardware or software customers are using. It has a portfolio of software products that address its customers' needs, with a specific focus on service management and assurance, project and portfolio management and security (identity and access management). It delivers its products on-premise, or for certain products, via software-as-a-service

Basically, CA does outsourced computer software sales for Insight, in the same way another company might do its catering, or landscaping.

Here’s what Quayle herself says she does on LinkedIn:

I actually left CA (and the world of the “big corporation”) to work for a small start up in the bay area…which was an unbelievable learning experience. It also lead me to a unique opportunity to work for VMware. I would have stayed at VMware for years if CA hadn’t recruited me back for a channel sales position. Now that I’m in sales, I know it’s where I’m going to stay.

Tiffany Quayle’s Specialties:

IT Sales & Marketing – specifically in the channel…even more specifically, on the LAR side of the channel.

If you bring coffee in to Steve Jobs' office, you don’t “manage Apple, a Fortune 500 company, for Starbucks.”

You’re a barista.

PHXated has a friend in Chicago who works for AT&T. One of his clients is Walgreens. He doesn’t “manage Walgreens, a Fortune 500 company.”

He just sells them phones. (It’s a little more complicated than that, but still.)

What does Tiffany Quayle do? She sells computer software, basically making sure Insight is up to date on its Microsoft Office licenses.

It’s a little more complicated than that, but still.

For free, PHXated offers this quick resume rewrite for the distaff Quayle:

“Tiffany Crane Quayle does corporate computer software sales for CA, formerly Computer Associates. Her client in Arizona is Insight Enterprises, a Fortune 1000 company.”

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