Greatest Vendor Leaders

Co-Founder and CEO, Microsoft - 1975-2000 While his reign at Microsoft is now but a distant memory, Bill Gates’ indelible mark on the IT industry still looms large...

CEO, Cisco - 1995-2015 John Chambers’ status as one of the channel’s staunchest allies, alongside his gift for off-the-cuff oratory, fuelled a flurry of votes for the former...

Co-Founder, CEO and President, NVIDIA – 1993-present Considering he helms a graphics card vendor most channel pros would only have vaguely been aware of 18 months ago, Jensen...

Founder, chairman, and CEO, Dell Technologies - 1984-present For a CEO who shunned the channel for most of his career, Michael Dell has played a blinder to finish...

Founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO, Amazon - 1994-present Recently characterised by his successor Andy Jassy as “arguably the most unusual business leader of our era”,...

CEO, HP/HPE – 2011-2017 | President and CEO, eBay – 1998-2008 While Meg Whitman’s six-year spell helming HP/HPE had its ups and downs, it speaks volumes that eight...

President and CEO, AMD - 2014-present Lisa Su’s decade in charge at AMD is a “true blueprint for corporate revival in the tech industry”, one of the seven...

Co-founder, chairman and CEO, Salesforce - 1999-present Salesforce’s much-celebrated founder and CEO makes the top ten on the back of five nominations from the channel leaders we approached...

CEO, Oracle - 2014-present Credited with being “the brains behind Oracle’s growth” by one panellist who put her in their top five (see below), Safra Catz may well...

CEO, Tesla – 2008-present, Founder, SpaceX, Owner, X Corp “Direct”, “erratic” and “boorish” are all words panellists who nominated Elon Musk used to describe the colourful tech billionaire....