CRN 25 Most Influential Executives of 2009

CRN has selected the 25 Most Influential Executives of 2009, who are believed to have changed the computing landscape with aggressive channel sales expansions, blockbuster acquisitions, breakthrough cloud computing initiatives and strong sales even in the midst of the biggest downturn in the economy since the Great Depression.

They are:

• Mark Hurd, Chairman, CEO and President, Hewlett-Packard
• John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems
• Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle 
• Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve  
• Enrique Salem, President and CEO, Symantec 
• Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft 
• Rob McKernan, Senior Vice President and President North America, APC by Schneider Electric 
• Sam Palmisano, Chairman and CEO, IBM 
• Paul Maritz, President and CEO, VMware 
• Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky Lab 
• Kevin Murai, President and CEO, Synnex 
• Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel 
• Greg Spierkel, CEO, Ingram Micro 
• Michael and Dan Schwab, Co-CEOs, D&H Distributing 
• Tally Liu, Chairman and CEO, Newegg 
• Rory Read, president and COO, Lenovo 
• Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox 
• Rance Poehler, President, Panasonic Computer Solutions
• Eva Chen, Co-founder and CEO, Trend Micro 
• Michael Dell, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Dell 
• Joe Tucci, CEO, EMC 
• William McCracken, Interim Executive Chairman, CA 
• Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple 
• Dave DeWalt, President and CEO, McAfee 
• Steve Luczo, Chairman, President and CEO, Seagate 
  

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CRN Top 25 Most Innovative Executives Of 2009

CRN has selected the Top 25 Most Innovative Executives of 2009, who are believed to have put big profits into solution provider pockets with breakthrough products and channel programs that cover the most explosive emerging technology markets.

They are:

• Stephen Cho, Director of Google Apps Channels, Google (Web 2.0/utility computing)
  
• Steve Munford, CEO, Sophos (security)
• Michael Klayko, CEO, Brocade (computer network)
  
• Evan Williams, CEO, Twitter (social networking)
  
• Steven Chang, President, Asus (netbook)
  
• David Farr, CEO, Emerson Electric (green IT solution)
  
• Danny Windham, CEO, Digium (VoIP)
  
• Bill Gross, Co-founder and Secretary Treasurer, EFolder (SaaS)
  
• Bob Cagnazzi, CEO, BlueWater Communications (value added solution provider)
• Gavin Garbutt, Co-Founder, President and CEO, N-Able (managed service provider)
• Peter Cannone, CEO, OnForce (outsourcing services)
• Christopher Dean, Chief Strategy Officer, Skype (Internet telephony)
• Mike Lazardis, President and Co-CEO, Research In Motion  (mobile wireless solutions) 
• Mont Phelps, CEO, NWN (system integrator)
• Adam Selipsky, Web Services Vice President, Amazon.com (online retail)
• Jen-Hsun Huang, President and CEO, Nvidia (3D graphics processor)
• Lars and Jens Rasmussen, Wave Design Developers, Google (Google Wave online communications)
• Joel Allen, Founder, President and CEO, AllenPort (360-degree GPS solution)
• Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu (Linux distribution) 
• Rick McEachern, Co-founder and Chairman, LongJump (cloud computing platform)
• John Kish, President and CEO, Pano Logic (virtualization)
• Michael Gold, Founder and CEO, Zlago (SaaS)
• Sridhar Vembu, Founder and CEO, Zoho (online business applications)
• Juan Santana, CEO, Panda Security (antivirus)
• Craig Schlagbaum, Vice President, Level 3 Communications (telco channels)

Click here to learn more about the CRN's Top 25 Most Innovative Executives Of 2009 and detail explanation of why the above are selected.

Malaysia Most Valuable Brands (MMVB) 2009 by 4As in collaboration with Interbrand

The Malaysia's Most Valuable Brands (MMVB)is a brand valuation and benchmarking of high performing Malaysian brands by The Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies (4As) in collaboration with Interbrand.

There are 3 brands fell off the 2009 list:

• Proton
• MAA
• Ogawa

There are 2 new brands enter into the 2009 list:

• Alliance Bank
• Premier

The 5 biggest winners are:

• Sime Darby (+82.6%)
• Padini (+20.2%)
• RHB Bank (+13.8%)
• Sin Chew (+13.5%)
• AirAsia (+8.7%)

The 5 biggest losers are:

• Malaysia Airlines (-61.3%)
• TV3 (-43.3%)
• Maybank (-42.5%)
• Kurnia (-29.4%)
• Resorts World Genting (-22.5%)

The Malaysia's 30 most valuable brands in 2009 are:

• Public Bank (6.593b)
• Maybank (5.374b)
• CIMB (5.245b)
• Celcom (3.993b)
• Parkson (3.740b)
• Resorts World Genting (3.464b)
• DiGi (3.129b)
• Astro (3.023b)
• Sime Darby (2.992b)
• Petronas (the listed Petronas Dagangan & Petronas Gas) (2.649b)
• Perodua (2.644b)
• Hong Leong Bank (2.591b)
• Giant (2.244b)
• AmBank (761.327m)
• YTL (739.754m)
• Malaysia Airlines (708.391m)
• RHB Bank (691.255m)
• TV3 (586.922m)
• AirAsia (411.068m)
• The Star (371.398m)
• JobStreet.com (313.475m)
• Dutch Lady (276.400m)
• Padini (244.634m)
• Sin Chew (215.768m)
• Affin Bank (198.998m)
• Alliance Bank (195.330m)
• Kurnia (139.329m)
• Premier (111.303m)
• Sunway City (108.452m)
• Bonia (96.559m)

Do you invested or plan to invest in any of the above Top 30 MMVB?

Click here to visit the MMVB website.

You can read more about each and every of the above Top 30 MMVB 2009 in the 48 pages special pull-out of The Edge weekly dated 23 November 2009.