Greatest Vendor Leaders

CEO and President, IBM – 2012-2020 IBM’s only female CEO to date is also its sole representative in the top 30, reflecting her endeavours to transform Big Blue...

CEO, Computacenter - 1994-present When we asked our 60 channel leaders to nominate their top five ‘vendor leaders’, we weren’t necessarily expecting them to put forward their peers...

CEO, Amazon, 2021-present | SVP and CEO, AWS - 2003-2021 Andy Jassy’s desire to learn and be continuously curious has allowed him to remain “one step ahead” of...

COO, Facebook/Meta - 2008-2022 | Google – 2001-2008 Despite being one of only four vendor leaders in this countdown not to hold, or have held, CEO status, Sheryl...

CEO, Palo Alto Networks - 2018-present With the exception of CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz, no cybersecurity CEO pulled in more nominations from the channel leaders involved in this project...

CEO, Intel - 2021-present | CEO, VMware - 2012-2021 There’s a lot of love for Pat Gelsinger in the channel, with one of our 60-strong panel characterising the...

CEO, HPE – 2018-present Few people in this countdown can rival the loyalty and length of service of Antonio Neri, who was handed the top job at HPE...

Co-Founder and CEO, VMware – 1998 - 2008 | CEO of Google Cloud - 2015-2019 Having created the market for mainstream virtualisation, co-founded three successful tech firms (VMware,...

CEO, Apple - 2011-present boxxe CEO Phil Doye’s assertion that Tim Cook “does not get the credit he deserves” (see below) would appear on the money considering his...

Founder and CEO, CrowdStrike - 2012-present While some panellists who picked George Kurtz did so before the CrowdStrike-induced mega outage on 18 July, it speaks volumes that one...