Coletta Whalen

Ginger Coletta Whalen is the Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances, specifically within the Salesforce ecosystem. Her job as Vice President is to lead a team who will extend the Bitwise Industries’ mission into the Salesforce ecosystem with a human and community-first approach. Ginger received her Bachelor of Business Administration, with an emphasis in international business and language area studies, from St. Norbert College and Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. As a former employee of Salesforce, and recently the Director of Partnerships for a Salesforce software partner. Ginger learned about Bitwise while working amongst Salesforce partners and was immediately drawn to the mission of unlocking technology opportunities for typically overlooked humans. Ginger is passionate about the opportunity to crack open and nurture a partner ecosystem that fuels job placement of apprentices while connecting Bitwise to partners who add to, and deepen, the core mission. She is a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a service-human to her five-year-old sheepdog, KoKo. With a large extended family full of siblings, nieces, and nephews in her hometown of Chicago, Ginger is delightfully devoted and spends time with them as often as possible. She has been involved as a member of STEM Santa Fe and Doctors Without Borders.