Five Ingram Micro Leaders Named to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs List

Recognition highlights industry leaders for driving customer growth, business innovation, and services-led transformation

Irvine, California – February 26, 2026 – Ingram Micro today announced CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named five Ingram Micro sales and channel executives to the prestigious 2026 CRN® Channel Chiefs list. The annual recognition honors industry leaders who are shaping channel strategy and driving innovation and partnership across the global IT ecosystem.

This year’s CRN Channel Chiefs from Ingram Micro include:

With a relentless focus on the customer, Ingram Micro’s 2026 Channel Chiefs are helping lead the distributor’s customer-first strategy and accelerate growth, expand services-led solutions, and strengthen strategic alliances across cybersecurity, cloud, AI, and advanced infrastructure. Together, these efforts are enabling customers to better leverage Ingram Micro’s people, capabilities, and differentiators—including the Xvantage platform—to drive greater success and growth.

Over the past year, Ingram Micro has worked to elevate the customer experience and help the channel ecosystem do more, grow and scale faster by:

  • Saving customers and vendors time by simplifying complex sales, quoting, and lifecycle processes through automation and AI-driven insights.
  • Enabling customers to build scalable, recurring revenue practices in high-growth areas such as AI, security, cloud, and modern workforce solutions.
  • Expanding global vendor collaboration, financial flexibility, and enablement programs to support sustained partner growth.

“With a shared commitment to strong relationships and shared success, our 2026 Channel Chiefs are helping our customers turn industry disruption into lasting opportunity,” said Bill Brandel, EVP and President, North America, Ingram Micro. “Their leadership, combined with our people and platform, is helping the channel simplify complexity, accelerate innovation, and grow more profitably and faster than they could alone.”

“Leaders recognized as CRN Channel Chiefs this year have demonstrated unwavering commitment to their partners and the broader IT channel. Their vision, passion, and drive for innovation continue to shape the future of our industry. We are proud to celebrate their achievements and the positive impact they make every day,” said Jennifer Follett, Vice President, U.S. Content, Executive Editor, CRN.

CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs list is featured on CRN.com at www.CRN.com/ChannelChiefs.

About Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro is a leading technology company in the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to a highly diversified base of business-to-business technology experts. Through Ingram Micro Xvantage™, our AI-powered digital platform, we offer what we believe to be the industry’s first comprehensive business-to-consumer-like experience, integrating hardware and cloud subscriptions, personalized recommendations, instant pricing, order tracking, and billing automation. We also provide various technology services, including financing, specialized marketing, lifecycle management, and technical pre- and post-sales professional support.
Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com.

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