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Tomer Weingarten Co-Founder, CEO SentinelOne Weingarten has been driving SentinelOne to expand into cloud security and security operations. The company recently unveiled the integration of its cloud workload protection plat- form and complementary capabilities from Wiz, including the startup’s cloud security posture manage- ment technology.
Lisa Su Chair, CEO AMD
George Kurian President, CEO NetApp
Raghu Raghuram CEO VMware Raghuram was plotting VMware’s next moves as an independent company when Broadcom knocked on the door with a $61 billion offer. The CEO has been working on the next steps of the merger while still pivoting VMware toward higher amounts of subscription revenue, a longtime goal.
Enrique Lores President, CEO HP Inc.
NetApp has shown the world how to build hybrid multi-cloud environments to store, manage and pro- tect data, and no one has done more to advance the concept than Kurian. He is totally committed to the idea that data should be treated equally, regardless of where it sits.
Lores has put partners front and center in his auda- cious plan to transform HP into a hybrid work power- house. With the company veteran’s Poly acquisition playing a big role, he is cre- ating growth opportunities for partners with a wide portfolio of PCs, printers, videoconferencing equip- ment and peripherals.
In just six years, Su has transformed AMD into a relentless challenger to Intel’s CPU dominance with its EPYC and Ryzen chips. But after mak- ing serious market-share gains, Su is just getting started—with big plans to disrupt Nvidia’s stronghold over AI chips.
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Pat Gelsinger CEO Intel
Hock Tan President, CEO Broadcom
Ken Xie Founder, Chairman, CEO Fortinet Under Xie’s leadership, Fortinet has expanded into a top player in SASE, helping to maintain the company’s status as a go-to cybersecurity ven- dor in the era of distributed work and cloud. Fortinet recently unveiled a num- ber of updates meant to better enable distributed work.
Bill McDermott Chairman, CEO ServiceNow
Paul Bay CEO Ingram Micro
McDermott leads a com- pany that has done more than just about any to change how businesses digitally manage work- flows. ServiceNow not only continually expands its digital IT workflow capa- bilities, but also is hungry for new capabilities it can acquire and integrate into its overall offering.
Amid a sea of big and small changes at Intel, Gelsinger has been a steady hand for the semiconductor com- pany, yet relentless in his push to fine-tune Intel’s product road maps, grow its manufacturing footprint and stay on track with his plan to make Intel the world’s leading chipmaker once again.
Tan has built one of the most comprehensive tech- nology companies on the planet through acquisition. He’s confident that the deal between his company and VMware will close and make Broadcom into a software and hardware dynamo capable of deliv- ering on the promises of modern technology.
With a $550 million investment, Bay laid the transformational founda- tion of how partners do business with Ingram Micro by rolling out the Xvantage digital experience platform. The platform uses auto- mation intelligence and machine learning to help partners perform a multi- tude of tasks.
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Rich Hume CEO TD Synnex
Yang Yuanqing Chairman, CEO Lenovo
Kris Hagerman CEO Sophos
Rami Rahim CEO Juniper Networks
Sean Kerins President, CEO Arrow Electronics
With an impressive ten- ure of more than 26 years, Rahim joined Juniper as employee No. 32 and has worked his way up the ranks. As CEO for over eight years, he has led the company through a phase of self-disruption in order to fuel the networking player’s experience-first network- ing strategy.
With Kerins’ leadership, Arrow added stability to the otherwise chaotic IT supply chains that were impacted by the pandemic. While the world’s largest electronic components distributor couldn’t solve shortages on its own, it could and did help manufacturers and the channel mitigate the worst challenges they faced.
Under Hume’s leadership, TD Synnex—the world’s largest IT distributor—has gone beyond a prod- uct mindset to become a leader in bringing essential capabilities and services around the cloud, security, IoT and more to solution providers looking for new ways to serve their customers.
Yang has been mak- ing good on his push for Lenovo to diversify its business with more reve- nue from server sales and services offerings. Despite a challenging economy, Yang has led Lenovo to profit levels not seen in nearly 20 years while defending its dominant position in the PC market.
For Hagerman, the shift to delivering cybersecurity via an as-a-service model is a top priority going for- ward—starting with the company’s MDR service. Sophos is “now moving to the next phase,” he told CRN , “which is to take what we deliver in MDR and make that available in our products.”
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