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Dave Shull President, Workforce Services, Solutions HP Inc. Shull is making a bold move to unlock significant growth opportunities for partners by reorienting HP’s doz- ens of commercial services around a new toolbox called Workforce Central. Viewing the offering as a strategic tool, Shull wants to turn every partner into a virtual CIO for their customers.
Jason Magee CEO ConnectWise
Patrick Pulvermueller CEO Acronis Pulvermueller, who joined Acronis as CEO in July 2021, has been busy bring- ing his message about the importance of securing data to a wider MSP audi- ence. Acronis was an early proponent of securing data from security attacks from the storage side, and he wants to make sure MSPs are on board with that idea.
Sanjay Poonen President, CEO Cohesity
Prakash Panjwani CEO WatchGuard Technologies Panjwani has overseen WatchGuard’s transforma- tion from a vendor focused on network security to a provider of a unified security platform. The WatchGuard platform now spans iden- tity and endpoint protection as well as secure wireless access points, in addition to its core network security capabilities.
Magee recently unveiled ConnectWise’s AI Responsibility Use Statement and AI Oversight Committee, which outline its commitment to data pro- tection, transparency, safety and compliance. Magee said ConnectWise wants to be at the forefront of AI to help MSPs use it effectively in their business.
Under Poonen, who became Cohesity’s CEO in 2022, the company appears headed toward an IPO not as a storage vendor, but as a provider of technology to secure data against cybersecu- rity attacks while betting its future around the idea that storage and security is a “blended conversation.”
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John Chen CEO BlackBerry
Vishal Lall SVP, GM, GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions Hewlett Packard Enterprise Call him Mr. Fix-It. First he got Aruba on track working his magic as COO. Now he has done it again, getting HPE’s GreenLake cloud solutions and software business going full steam ahead. Sales are up 30 per- cent year over year thanks to his vision.
Phil Mottram EVP, GM, HPE Intelligent Edge HPE Aruba Networking Mottram has one of HPE’s crown jewels, the HPE Aruba intelligent edge business, firing on all cyl- inders. In the most recent quarter, the business was up 50 percent to $1.3 bil- lion and has grown every quarter—now making up 20 percent of HPE’s annual revenue.
Kristin Russell President, Global Enterprise Computing Solutions Arrow Electronics Russell presides over the $2.5 billion Arrow busi- ness unit, where she leads a team that works with the top hardware, software, services and cloud vendors to craft and integrate fully customized and integrated answers to the needs of solution providers.
David Friend CEO Wasabi Technologies Friend has been on a virtual crusade to show businesses there is an alter- native to hyperscale public cloud providers when it comes to storing and pro- tecting data. That has led to Wasabi becoming the low- cost and secure back-end capacity to a majority of top data protection technology developers.
Chen has spearheaded BlackBerry’s continued focus on cybersecurity and embedded systems. Recent moves have included the overhaul of Blackberry’s Cylance platform, with the introduction of speedier incident response capa- bilities, enhanced cloud defense and a massive reduction in false alerts.
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Ed Meyercord President, CEO Extreme Networks
Eva Chen Co-Founder, CEO Trend Micro
Bill Andrews President, CEO ExaGrid
Ali Ghodsi Co-Founder, CEO Databricks
Gary Smith President, CEO Ciena
Meyercord has led Extreme Networks onto the net- working battlefield and has scored a number of key wins. Extreme today has more than 50,000 cus- tomers globally, including some of the biggest sports franchises, that trust the company’s cloud-driven networking solutions.
Chen has overseen Trend Micro’s move into emerg- ing security segments such as XDR. The new Trend Vision One platform cor- relates data from multiple tools and environments to help with prioritizing major threats, with data feeds coming from native Trend Micro products and third- party tools.
In a world where data pro- tection means software, ExaGrid under Andrews continues to spearhead the development of data protection hardware appli- ances the company says provide the performance and capacity needed to scale backup and long-term data retention to multi- petabyte environments.
Ghodsi has led data lake- house pioneer Databricks to become one of the fastest- growing IT companies with its platform for real-time analytics, data engineering and data warehouse tasks. Databricks is also a major player in the exploding AI space, a position cemented by its deal to acquire gener- ative AI startup MosaicML.
A Ciena veteran for over 26 years and CEO for the past 22, Smith’s impressive ten- ure and people-first focus is a winning combina- tion. Under his leadership, Ciena has grown into a recognized global leader in helping customers build adaptive networks with optical and software auto- mation offerings.
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