CRN released its list of Top 100 Executives for 2024, honoring vendor and solution provider standouts who are leading the way in IT. The prestigious list honors executives excelling in four key categories, including Most Influential, Innovators, Channel Sales, and Disrupters.
Kimberly King, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partners & Alliances at Hitachi Vantara, earned her spot among the Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders of 2024. King has been named a CRN Power 100 Woman of the Channel nine times and one of CRN’s Most Influential Channel Chiefs. And, Hitachi Vantara has been honored by CRN as a 5-Star Partner Program Guide for 12 years in a row!
Arming Partners with the Right Resources
For the Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders of 2024, CRN chose executives at channel-friendly tech vendors who are enabling partners to grow and profit from a variety of opportunities, whether security, computing, storage, networking, enterprise software, infrastructure, or another area.
CRN notes that the Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders are enhancing programs and deploying new resources to train, certify, enable, and incentive partners to sell, integrate, and support solutions that will help solution providers increase sales and grow their margins in a rapidly evolving tech landscape, especially security and AI.
How King Accelerates Partner Profitability
CRN notes that King has led the charge at Hitachi Vantara to help partners embrace the company’s enterprise storage, AI, and hybrid cloud strategy by equipping them with differentiated solutions and resources to embrace a variety of business models, including as-a-service, managed services, and co-creation.
As Hitachi Vantara’s channel chief for more than five years, King has led the creation and delivery of the company’s global partner program, with a focus on opening new doors and accelerating partners’ profitability with innovative, right-fit solutions to help customers realize the power of their data. The Hitachi Vantara partner program is designed to be flexible and scalable, and one of King’s top priorities has been on the ease of doing business with Hitachi Vantara as well as execution excellence.
Meet all of CRN’s Top 100 Executives for 2024.
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