We continue our Women in Tech campaign with the third interview in the series, featuring Alexandra Kovalenko, Head of Partnerships & Alliances at Sigma Software. Her perspective highlights how strategic partnerships, open technologies, and European values around sovereignty and trust come together to drive real impact across Europe’s digital ecosystem.
Short intro
I am the Head of Partnerships & Alliances at Sigma Software, where I lead strategic collaborations with technology providers across Europe. My work focuses on building strong partner ecosystems in cloud, data, and AI to help customers innovate while meeting European regulatory, security, and sovereignty requirements.
How are you driving impact in Europe’s digital ecosystem this year?
Since spring 2025, I have been actively driving the partnerships direction at Sigma Software, with a clear focus on expanding customer choice around data and cloud infrastructure in Europe. My role is to build partnerships that make cloud repatriation a realistic and credible option. This includes working closely with European cloud providers such as UpCloud and translating these partnerships into solutions customers can actually adopt.
Alongside this, I work closely with our engineering teams that contribute to open-source and OpenStack communities, supporting internal proofs of concept and helping customers adopt these technologies in practice. This hands-on work ensures that partnership decisions are grounded in real technical experience.
Through my close involvement with Gaia-X, I help connect our partnerships and delivery teams with emerging European requirements across automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, etc. As a woman leading partnerships in tech, I see my role as creating space for collaboration and long-term trust in Europe’s digital future.
