2009 Channel Chiefs: Who's Who In Distribution

This year we expand our annual guide of the executives running channels at IT vendors to include executives running channel programs at distributors.

Arrow Electronics

President, Enterprise Computing Solutions

Years with company: 1

Years in channel: 28

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 30

Top products sold through the channel: BlueCoat, CommVault, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, VMware [read more]

Arrow Electronics

Director of Marketing, Midmarket Group, Enterprise Computing Solutions

Years with company: 1

Years in channel: 13

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 30

Top products sold through the channel: BlueCoat, IBM, NetApp, SonicWall, VMware, WatchGuard [read more]

Avnet Technology Solutions

Senior Vice President and General Manager, HP Solutions, Canada and Mexico

Years with company: 10

Years in channel: 20

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 43

Top products sold through the channel: Servers, storage, software, blades, mobility, routers, professional services, managed services, financial services, marketing services [read more]

Avnet Technology Solutions

Vice President of Solutions, Marketing and Development

Years with company: 20

Years in channel: 16

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 43

Top products sold through the channel: Servers, storage, software, blades, mobility products, routers/switches, professional services, managed services, marketing services and financial services [read more]

D&H Distributing

Vice President of Marketing

Years with company: 4

Years in channel: 10

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Cisco, Intel, Acer, Seagate/WD, Linksys [read more]

D&H Distributing

Senior Vice President of Sales

Years with company: 26

Years in channel: 26

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Cisco, Intel, Acer, Seagate/WD, Linksys [read more]

Ingram Micro

Senior Vice President, Sales and Vendor Management, Ingram Micro North America

Years with company: 23

Years in channel: 23

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: not provided

Top products sold through the channel: Apple, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, Intel, EMC, HP, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Symantec [read more]

ScanSource

Vice President, Marketing

Years with company: 14

Years in channel: 16

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Motorola, Intermec, IBM, NCR, Zebra, Epson, Avaya, Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Polycom, AudioCodes, Dialogic, Panasonic, Axis Communications [read more]

ScanSource

Vice President of Sales, ScanSource Communications

Years with company: 11

Years in channel: 11

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Polycom, Dialogic, AudioCodes, Plantronics, Cisco, Quintum, Envox [read more]

ScanSource

Vice President of Sales, ScanSource Security

Years with company: 10

Years in channel: 10

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Panasonic Security Systems, Sony, Axis Communications, Samsung, IQinVision, GE Security, Tropos, Datacard, Fargo, Zebra Card [read more]

SED International

Executive Vice President

Years with company: 14

Years in channel: 14

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Acer, Seagate, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Western Digital, Samsung, Intel, LG, Panasonic, Epson [read more]

SED International

Vice President, Marketing

Years with company: 6

Years in channel: 27

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Acer, Seagate, Microsoft, HP, Western Digital, Samsung, Intel, LG, Panasonic, Epson [read more]

Synnex

Senior Vice President of Marketing, North America

Years with company: 1.5

Years in channel: 20

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: HP (desktop and mobile PCs, printers, imaging products, supplies, servers and storage products), Panasonic (mobile PCs), IBM (software), Lenovo (desktop and mobile PCs), Seagate (storage products), Acer (mobile PCs, displays and monitors), Intel (CPUs, motherboards and networking products), Lexmark, Symantec (security software), Microsoft (operating systems and application software) [read more]

Tech Data

Senior Vice President, U.S. Marketing

Years with company: 3

Years in channel: 14

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Networking hardware, telephony solutions, videoconferencing solutions, document imaging, displays and digital signage, operating systems, collaboration, security and business intelligence software, systems, workstations and notebooks, printing solutions, Apple solutions [read more]

Westcon Group

Chief Marketing Officer

Years with company: 4

Years in channel: 8

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Check Point, Extreme, Juniper, Secure Computing, Radware, Nokia [read more]

Westcon Group

Vice President of U.S. Sales

Years with company: 13

Years in channel: 13

Percentage of revenue from solution providers: 100

Top products sold through the channel: Nortel, Avaya, Cisco, Check Point, Radware, RSA, Secure Computing, Nokia, Juniper [read more]