Here we present the CRN Top 100 Executives of 2026 list, the men and women who are setting the pace for the rest of the IT industry.
This year’s Most Influential executive is AWS CEO Matt Garman, whose partner dedication, AI vision and industry-leading cloud AI innovation strategy earned him the top spot.
2026’s No. 1 Disrupter, Colleen Kapase, is taking her decades of channel success to OpenAI to lead the AI startup’s channel push.
Lenovo’s Wade McFarland, CRN’s No. 1 Channel Sales Leader of the year, who in the year or so since joining the technology powerhouse has led North American sales for a company that depends on channel partners and distribution for growth.
Finally, this year’s No. 1 Innovator is HPE’s Rami Rahim, who has combined the HPE Aruba campus networking line and the robust Juniper enterprise networking portfolio into a leader that is challenging Cisco for AI networking supremacy.
Here we present the CRN Top 100 Executives of 2026 list, the men and women who are setting the pace for the rest of the IT industry.
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