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Top 25 Most Innovative Executives of 2007

This year's Top 25 list recognizes those executives who have forever changed the way we do business today and in the future.

CRN logo By CRN Staff

12:00 AM EST Mon. Nov. 12, 2007
From the November 12, 2007 issue of CRN
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Hector Ruiz
CEO, AMD
Ruiz led AMD to successfully challenge Intel's stranglehold on the processor market, by producing the first widely available dual-core x86 processor. And when Intel debuted its quad-core chip, AMD did one better by designing a "native" quad-core.

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Eric Schmidt
CEO, GOOGLE
Thanks to Schmidt, it's Google world -- we just live in it. Over the past year, Schmidt spearheaded a variety of innovative initiatives that inspired solution providers to become Google channel partners, so as not to get left behind.

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Mitch Breen
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL CHANNEL SALES, EMC
Breen has been fighting an uphill battle to convince solution providers that EMC is a channel-friendly vendor. And while some VARs still trust EMC as far as they trust Dell, Breen's efforts may soon pay off.

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Rauline Ochs
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ORACLE'S NORTH AMERICA ALLIANCE AND CHANNELS ORGANIZATION
Challenged with turning Oracle into a channel-friendly company, Ochs was instrumental in the launch of the software company's all-partner territories strategy.

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Bruce Geier
PRESIDENT & CEO, TIG
Geier is taking on the global market, expanding solution provider TIG's reach to two other continents and counting. And with the growth potential available globally, Geier expects a lot of travel in his future.

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