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OpenAI posted a blog on Nov. 30, 2022, with the head- line “Introducing ChatGPT.” In the eight months since, a wave of innovation has disrupted the industry, with companies racing to capitalize on the potential of generative AI tech- nology sparked by OpenAI. At the nexus of all this is Altman, a 38-year-old program- mer, entrepreneur, investor, Stanford University dropout and co-founder of mobile app developer Loopt. Altman co- founded OpenAI in December 2015 with backing from tech-
Bill Scannell President, Global Sales, Customer Operations Dell Technologies Scannell has been lead- ing all of Dell’s sales since 2019, and in that time the company has continued to set records for quarterly and annual revenue, while holding on to top market positions in digital infra- structure categories such as x86 servers for his entire run.
Sanjib Sahoo EVP, Global Chief Digital Officer Ingram Micro Sahoo is on a mission to make sure MSPs are work- ing to become digitally fit companies. MSPs must have nimble and flexible legacy and core systems, create a data foundation across all systems and have a product mindset to create a better user experi- ence, he has said.
SAM ALTMAN CEO OpenAI
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Jay Chaudhry Founder, Chairman, CEO Zscaler Chaudhry has remained unwavering in his pursuit of enabling the shift from traditional network secu- rity technologies to tools that can help enable a zero trust security posture, such as those that lever- age Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform.
Dev Ittycheria President, CEO MongoDB
nology startup accelerator Y Combinator (where Altman was president) and—starting in 2019— billions of dollars in Microsoft investments. Altman has to some degree become the human face for AI technology. Testifying before Congress on May 16, he touted AI’s potential benefits but acknowledged his “worst fears” are that the AI industry could “cause significant harm to the world.” OpenAI sees its mission as ensuring that AI benefits all of human- ity, he said. “It’s why we started the company.”
Ittycheria’s confidence in the NoSQL database ven- dor’s ability to meet the AI moment while stretching into new areas such as vec- tor search make MongoDB one to fear for companies that underestimate the tec- tonic shifts in technology and MongoDB’s promise to surf the wave.
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Tom Gillis SVP, GM, Security Cisco Systems
Dan and Michael Schwab Co-Presidents D&H Distributing
Ryan Walsh COO Pax8
Ghassan “Guss” Lababidi VP, Cybersecurity, Partner Marketing, Enablement OpenText Cybersecurity Lababidi has spearheaded OpenText’s doubling down on security and its work with partners—especially those that favor vendors with a broad portfolio of cybersecurity and data protection capabilities. He also has built a new team to drive partner sales.
Fred Voccola CEO Kaseya
Security legend Gillis rejoined Cisco in 2023 and now is spearheading the company’s global security business to fundamentally simplify the experience. At the same time, he’s help- ing Cisco boost its security chops so that the network- ing giant is also known for its expertise across the technology.
As Pax8 unveiled its revamped cloud market- place at its Beyond event, Walsh said it will be trans- formational for MSPs that are ready to jump. The mar- ketplace uses the power of data and AI to act as a cus- tomer acquisition engine for MSPs, which will have the power to choose which customers they want.
A year after buying rival software company Datto for $6.2 billion, Voccola said Kaseya is seeing 30 per- cent organic growth and is on a hiring spree, making room for more than 3,000 new employees. Kaseya has also acquired Vonahi Security, ConnectBooster and audIT and held its first DattoCon in Europe.
The Schwab brothers have grown D&H from $1.45 billion to nearly $6 billion, redefining the modern dis- tribution model by bringing in key new talent and mak- ing big investments that are powering partners into new areas like cloud, Everything as a Service, professional services and security.
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