Familiar faces and fresh hellos

Hear from a fresh set of voices sharing authentic, human stories from the front lines of our industry. No matter your role, you'll discover real experiences, honest lessons and new perspectives on what it takes to build businesses and connect with others.

Will Guidara

Entrepreneur & Bestselling Author, ‘Unreasonable Hospitality’

Will Guidara is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality. He is the former co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, which under his leadership was named the Best Restaurant in the World. 

He is the host of The Welcome Conference, a Co-Producer on the Emmy Award-winning series The Bear, and is a recipient of the Wall Street Journal Innovator Award. His latest book, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Field Guide released in April 2026.

Paul Bay

Chief Executive Officer,
Ingram Micro

Paul Bay is Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Micro. With nearly three decades of experience in the IT industry and a long-standing tenure at Ingram Micro, Bay is recognized for his strategic foresight, operational excellence, and commitment to innovation. In October 2024, he successfully led Ingram Micro, a company with nearly $50 billion in annual revenue, through its return to the public markets, marking a significant milestone in the company’s growth journey. 

Bay joined Ingram Micro in sales in 1995 and has played a pivotal role in shaping Ingram Micro’s global strategy, driving sustainable growth, and transforming the company into a platform business. 

Bill Brandel

EVP, Global Group President,
North America,
Ingram Micro

Bill Brandel is Executive Vice President and President for Ingram Micro’s North American business. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s U.S. and Canadian strategy, operations, and business execution.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT channel industry, Brandel joined Ingram Micro in 1997 as a sales representative. His experience includes serving as Senior Vice President for Go To Market for the U.S. Channel, where he focused on evolving Ingram Micro Xvantage and overseeing U.S. Sales, Vendor Management, and Marketing functions.

Sanjib Sahoo

President, Global Platform Group, Ingram Micro

Sanjib Sahoo is widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential business leaders and a global operating executive known for scaling complex enterprises through platform-led and AI-enabled transformation. He operates at the intersection of strategy, execution, and enterprise value creation.

As President, Global Platform Group at Ingram Micro, a Fortune 100 technology company, Sahoo leads the company’s worldwide platform strategy and operating model transformation. He is responsible for advancing Ingram Micro’s evolution into the industry’s first intelligent operating system for the global technology ecosystem through Xvantage™, leveraging data, AI, automation, and platform innovation to create scalable growth, productivity, and operating leverage. 

 

Tyler Coughlan

SVP, Chief Country Executive, Canada, Ingram Micro

Tyler Coughlan serves as President of Ingram Micro Canada. In this role, he is responsible for driving the execution of the U.S. business strategy and sales enablement efforts for Ingram Micro’s top partners.  

With more than 25 years of channel sales and vendor management experience, Coughlan had led the NSP for 5 years and was selected to launch Ingram Micro’s Customer Experience practice in August 2020. Since joining Ingram Micro in 1997, he has held various roles in both sales and vendor management. From 2012 to 2015, Coughlan served as Director of Sales for Ingram Micro’s Global Accounts while also supporting key strategic software vendors.

Dham Pathervellai

SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Ingram Micro

Dham Pathervellai is the SVP & CTO at Ingram Micro, leading global engineering, enterprise architecture, and corporate applications for a ~$48 billion technology distributor. He is spearheading the company’s platform‑first transformation, including rollout of the Xvantage digital platform, data mesh adoption, and AI‑driven automation across a network of 2,500+ vendors and 160,000 customers in 200+ countries. Known for his pragmatic motto “don’t write code unless it makes money” he blends engineering discipline with commercial focus to scale innovation efficiently.

Victor Baez

SVP, US Sales & Cloud,
Ingram Micro

Victor Baez leads the U.S. Sales organization at Ingram Micro by aligning customers, partners, and vendors around shared growth and long-term value creation. 

With 25 years of go-to-market leadership experience, Victor focuses on translating complexity into clarity—helping our ecosystem scale innovation and deliver measurable business outcomes. Victor is committed to building a culture where high-performing teams thrive, partnerships deepen, and leadership is defined by accountability, development, and shared success.

Cheryl Rang

VP, Technology Solutions,
Ingram Micro

Cheryl Rang is Vice President of Vendor Strategy at Ingram Micro, where she leads U.S. business strategy, partner development, and growth across the company’s vendor and services portfolio. In this role, Cheryl oversees key technology categories including Modern Infrastructure, Networking & Security, and the Modern Workforce, working closely with leading global partners such as Cisco,  Dell, Nvidia, HPE, Lenovo, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks to deliver innovative, scalable solutions to customers.

In addition to her vendor leadership responsibilities, Cheryl leads Ingram Micro’s U.S. Services organization, encompassing presales technical support and the Lifecycle Services business, including IT Asset Disposition (ITAD). She is instrumental in aligning services, vendors, and platform capabilities to enable end to end solutions that support customers throughout the full technology lifecycle—from design and deployment to secure, responsible asset retirement.

Adam Bellows

Executive Director, Platform Business & Operations, Ingram Micro

Adam Bellows is seen as a transformative thinker who strives to remove complexity from doing business with Ingram Micro. He works across the organization to better enable partners to develop and grow their networking and security business and also secured a number of exclusive vendor relationships.

Joyce Hofman

Global Director, AI & Innovation Partnerships, Ingram Micro

Joyce Hofman is Global Director of AI & Innovation Partnerships at Ingram Micro, where she leads the company’s worldwide AI go-to-market strategy and execution across hyperscalers, OEMs, and emerging technology partners. With over a decade of progressive leadership at Ingram Micro, she has scaled from Cloud Sales Manager in the Netherlands to a global AI executive operating from headquarters in California.

Joyce architects ecosystem driven AI programs that translate innovation into commercial acceleration and aligning vendors, partners, and cross-functional teams to drive measurable growth at scale. Her expertise spans global AI strategy, hyperscaler partnerships, ecosystem development, and enterprise GTM execution.