The 25 Most Influential Executives Of 2017

22. Kevin Murai

President, CEO

Synnex

Kevin Murai helped Synnex burst onto the Cisco scene with an agreement to purchase Westcon-Comstor's $2.18 billion Americas business. The deal will bring Synnex into Latin America for the first time, Murai said, and strengthen the distributor's arsenal around security, networking, and unified communications and collaboration. Murai also drove Synnex's push to roll out a Device-as-a-Service program that enables end users to buy hardware on a subscription basis.