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Barb Huelskamp

Barb Huelskamp

Barb Huelskamp

Barb Huelskamp is the Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances at SolarWinds, where she leads strategies, programs, and teams aimed at driving growth and value through strategic partnerships. With over 25 years of leadership experience in global channel strategies and sales, Huelskamp has held key roles at Qualys, Alteryx, AWS, Polycom, and Jabra.
Her accomplishments include creating and optimizing partner programs and go-to-market strategies, activating global partner ecosystems for joint growth, and driving channel-led pipeline creation and sales.
Huelskamp has served as a board member for CRN’s Women of the Channel and mentors emerging professionals through various initiatives. Her impact has been recognized through several industry honors, including CRN’s Channel Chief, Women of the Channel, and Women in IT Security awards.

The Latest Posts Featuring Barb Huelskamp

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

Empowering SolarWinds Partners to Deliver Intelligent Operations in 2026
January 21, 2026
Events

For SolarWinds, AI is about more than innovation for its own sake. It’s about empowering partners and customers to navigate complexity and reduce operational strain. We believe that every IT professional should be able to spend less time firefighting and more time driving strategy. Partners play a central role in making this possible, helping guide adoption, strategy, and transformation.

5 Ways to Unlock Market Growth With a Global Partner Ecosystem
August 28, 2025
Customer Stories

Growth doesn’t just come from a better product or faster deployment; it comes from being connected to something bigger.