Linda Campbell is an expert at building product partnerships and ecosystems for tech companies. Most recently, she was VP Commercial Partnerships for Bluescape, a startup in the visual collaboration space where she led a team building partnerships with digital asset management companies, stock image suppliers, and other companies in the creative operations space.

Prior to Bluescape, Linda was director of partner management for Itron, a leader in the smart energy industry. There Linda managed a team focused on building technology partnerships to provide Itron’s customers with access to a wide variety of complementary products and applications that integrate to Itron’s networking and metering platforms.

Before Itron, Linda relocated with BlackBerry to Silicon Valley from Ottawa, Canada - where she was responsible for bridging partnerships and ecosystems in the mobile, automotive, and IoT segments. Ms Campbell was part of a startup called QNX Software Systems which was subsequently purchased by Harman International and later, BlackBerry. She held a variety of leadership roles in all three organizations, but is primarily recognized for building a world class alliances practice and an award-winning ecosystem of 100’s of companies in support of QNX’s automotive and other IoT business lines.

Ms Campbell is an active advocate for women in business at a grassroots level. She co-founded the Silicon Valley-based Women in Automotive Technology and is a mentor for the Canadian Womens Network in Silicon Valley.

Ms. Campbell holds a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Ottawa.