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World Wide Technology CEO Jim Kavanaugh: 10 Biggest Bets For 2019
Mark Haranas
Where WWT Is Placings Its Technology And Vendor Bets
World Wide Technology CEO and co-founder Jim Kavanaugh has made all the right bets over the past 28 years to build a solution provider powerhouse that's achieving a whopping $10.4 billion in annual revenue.
A top global Cisco, Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware channel partner, Kavanaugh has led Maryland Heights, Mo.-based WWT from a small startup to a global channel leader by successfully investing in innovative sales and engineering techniques while placing its bets on the right vendors. "We are always knee deep in technologies and products," said Kavanaugh, whose company ranks No. 7 on CRN's 2018 Solution Provider 500 list.
In an interview with CRN, Kavanaugh talks about WWT's investment and customer strategy in 2019 as well as what vendor technology he's betting on to drive sales growth.
