CRN’s 2025 Channel Chiefs highlight the leaders who drive the channel agenda and evangelize the importance of channel partnerships within the IT industry and identifies the 50 most influential leaders who play an outsized role in channel leadership, not only within their own companies but across the IT industry.
Kimberly King, SVP, Strategic Partners & Alliances at Hitachi Vantara, was once again honored to be part of this elite group. King has been honored as a CRN Power 100 Woman of the Channel nine times and as a CRN Channel Chief for 14 years in a row. Hitachi Vantara has been honored by CRN as a 5-Star Partner Program Guide for 12 years in a row!
Read King’s profile: CRN Channel Chiefs: 50 Most Influential.
Committed to Driving Mutual Success
Partnering with Hitachi Vantara is trusted, profitable and sustainable—a commitment that’s more important than ever as customers tackle the growing and complex challenges of Gen AI, exploding data volumes, hybrid cloud, and cyber resiliency.
“We keep it simple,” said King. “Our core tenet is to put partners first.”
King has built a strategic partner ecosystem that offers differentiated capabilities, solutions, and services that, when combined with Hitachi’s industry expertise and innovative solutions, help solution partners grow profitably and enable organizations to fully realize the power of their data.
As Hitachi Vantara’s channel chief, King has created a global partner program that is flexible and scalable to embrace new types of partners and business models, including as-a-service, managed services, and cocreation.
In 2024, King drove year-over-year growth in Hitachi Vantara’s partner business and growth in the percentage of the company’s indirect sales. Another focus was making it easier for partners to do business with Hitachi Vantara by streamlining and simplify the partner program and its requirements.
See who else CRN named as the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs.