The Top 25 Technology Disrupters Of 2021 Here are the men and women who are pushing boundaries and turning the IT market on its ear.

For executives in the rapidly changing tech industry, focusing on driving innovation while putting partners at the center is a winning combination. That approach is something you’ll find throughout this year’s class of the Top 100 Executives—whether it’s with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, who ranked No. 1 among the Most Influential executives of 2021; George Hope, worldwide head of partner sales at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who ranked atop the Channel Sales Leaders category; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who topped the list in the IT Innovators category; or SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten, who is No. 1 on the Technology Disrupters list.

Across our list, you’ll find business and technology leaders who are taking bold steps to move their companies in new channel-friendly directions, shake up the status quo, work more closely with partners and make big bets on where the market is heading next. Crucially, you’ll find executives who aren’t afraid to move quickly—even in a time when uncertainty is rampant due to the ongoing pandemic and the economic upheaval it has wrought.

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Krishna, in particular, is emblematic of these traits. He has spent his first 16 months in the role aggressively pursuing transforming IBM into the industry leader in hybrid cloud and AI. At the same time, he has brought a massively expanded focus on partners. Krishna and the other standouts were chosen for our list prove that winning leaders embrace innovation while going all-in with partners in the pursuit of accelerating digital transformation for customers.

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The Top 25 Technology Disrupters Of 2021

Here are the men and women who are pushing boundaries and turning the IT market on its ear.

The Top 25 Technology Disrupters Of 2021 Here are the men and women who are pushing boundaries and turning the IT market on its ear.

[RELATED: 2021 Most Influential Executive Arvind Krishna - ‘I Bleed Blue’]

The 25 Most Influential Executives Of 2021

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