Editor's Letter

John Chambers
As president and CEO of Cisco Systems, Chambers has turned the company from a router vendor into a networking powerhouse. Along the way, he also served as the Internet's chief evangelist, swaying businesses to go online.

Michael Krasny
Krasny, the founder and former CEO of CDW Computer Centers, pioneered a new channel business model and launched a burgeoning company that remains a beacon of cost-efficient delivery and service.

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2002 Industry Hall Of Fame Contents

By CRN Staff

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November 13, 2002    4:38 PM ET

Editor's Letter

John Chambers
As president and CEO of Cisco Systems, Chambers has turned the company from a router vendor into a networking powerhouse. Along the way, he also served as the Internet's chief evangelist, swaying businesses to go online.

Michael Krasny
Krasny, the founder and former CEO of CDW Computer Centers, pioneered a new channel business model and launched a burgeoning company that remains a beacon of cost-efficient delivery and service.

Michael Ruettgers
Storage was just an afterthought until Ruettgers rolled the dice at EMC. Now the company's executive chairman, he made storage the central nervous system of the corporate network and EMC the pace-setter of the storage market.

Jerry Sanders
Sanders, chairman and co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices, has kept his company a vibrant force in microprocessor technology and in the systems builder channel,and remained a thorn in the side of chip kingpin Intel.

Izzy Schwab
The venerable CEO of D&H Distributing, Schwab turned a regional consumer-electronics distributor into a national IT distribution contender and helped a menagerie of high-tech manufacturers grow through the channel.

Gary Starkweather
Laser printers have made printing an easy task for millions of computer users. Yet Starkweather, the device's inventor, certainly didn't have an easy time developing the technology during his career at Xerox.


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