Ingram Micro appoints Sanjib Sahoo as President of World Platform Group

Evolving into the {industry}’s main business-to-business (B2B) platform firm for the worldwide expertise ecosystem, Ingram Micro Holding Company (NYSE: INGM) introduced the promotion of worldwide acknowledged enterprise and digital chief Sanjib Sahoo to President of Ingram Micro’s World Platform Group.
Sahoo will proceed to execute on the corporate’s imaginative and prescient to turn out to be the worldwide expertise ecosystem’s business-to-business (B2B) platform. This contains main the continued improvement and deployment of its digital twin, XvantageTM, a patent-pending B2B expertise platform and working mannequin designed to make it simpler for patrons and distributors to work with Ingram Micro and create extra worth.
“Ingram Micro has constructed upon its many years of expertise to turn out to be a disruptive chief and digital power within the international expertise {industry},” says Paul Bay, CEO of Ingram Micro. “I’m happy to announce the appointment of Sanjib as President of our World Platform Group. A confirmed enterprise strategist and digital innovator, Sanjib’s expanded management and devoted crew will higher assist and speed up our imaginative and prescient of changing into a platform firm that can reinvent the B2B buyer expertise by means of Xvantage.”
Hailing from Kolkata, Sahoo has efficiently carved his area of interest within the avenues of Silicon Valley. An completed Indian-American visionary, he has a wealthy legacy of driving innovation and industry-wide transformation by means of groundbreaking digital transformation initiatives. Commanding the right mix of enterprise acumen and technical experience, he has contributed extensively towards shaping the digital way forward for the worldwide expertise distribution panorama.
Among the many outstanding alumni of Harvard Enterprise College, Sahoo dons a extremely embellished cap with accolades coming in from totally different nooks of the {industry} that talk volumes about his contribution to the world of expertise and enterprise. Among the most prestigious ones are Trendsetter of the Trade on the India 2030 Management Conclave, Bharat Samman Award, ASIAOne Particular person of the Yr, and the World Icon for Expertise by the Financial Occasions.
Beforehand, Sahoo served as the corporate’s govt vice chairman, international expertise and chief digital officer. Employed in 2021, he set the imaginative and prescient and roadmap for Ingram Micro Xvantage, an AI-driven enterprise platform for Ingram Micro’s crew members, clients, and vendor companions that permits real-time interactions, information alternate, insights, and buying, considerably decreasing the friction from typical B2B transactions. In 2022, Ingram Micro’s digital expertise platform broke floor, beginning a transformative journey for the industry-leading expertise distributor.
With roughly 29 million strains of code, 20 clever engines, and 30 patents pending, Xvantage is uniquely and purposefully designed to vary how the tech {industry} works. Now in use in 16 international locations, Xvantage is transferring the {industry} from transactions to extra interactions by introducing actionable enterprise intelligence for strategic progress and decision-making.
“Sanjib’s imaginative and prescient for Xvantage and our crew’s ongoing dedication to excellence have modified how we create and ship worth for the worldwide tech {industry},” continues Bay. “Collectively, with our clients and distributors, we’re delivering extra worth and realizing Ingram Micro’s strategic shift from 45-year-old expertise distribution chief to ground-breaking, international B2B platform innovator.”
As President of the World Platform Group, Sahoo leads all facets of platform technique throughout Ingram Micro. This contains platform improvement, the innovation flywheel, international progress, companies and assist, and the enterprise enlargement plans for Ingram Micro’s platform working mannequin. Sahoo additionally oversees the important thing management crew inside Ingram Micro’s World Platform Group and can proceed collaborating with Ingram Micro’s regional Presidents, Chief Nation Executives, and different enterprise leaders to rework the corporate’s working metrics and drive extra progress by means of Xvantage.
“I’m honored to guide our efforts to maneuver in direction of a platform-first mannequin and remodel Ingram Micro from distributor to platform ecosystem firm,” says Sahoo. “Xvantage helps our clients and distributors to work quicker, smarter, and with extra intention. I’m excited to guide, collaborate, encourage, and take motion to boost and broaden Ingram Micro’s rising impression on our clients, distributors, and the {industry} by means of our AI-driven digital expertise platform Xvantage.”
Elevating the Expertise at Scale
All through 2024, Ingram Micro labored to enhance the expertise and enterprise effectivity of its greater than 161,000 clients and 1,500 distributors globally through the use of Xvantage to construct higher buyer benefit and assist eradicate friction tied to the market’s commonest and complicated. B2B ache factors. The innovation cycles and enhancements to Xvantage are steady and embody:
- Finish-to-end automation of real-time cloud, {hardware}, and repair transactions as singular quotes, ordering and invoicing, together with customized configurations and industry-specific particular pricing.
- Automated ordering and administration of cloud subscriptions with {hardware}, companies, and software program on a single quote, making it simpler for any channel accomplice to supply high-value options.
- Totally persona-based enterprise insights, reporting, and answer suggestions utilizing AI/ML fashions.
- A local Xvantage Cellular App permitting clients to work in real-time from anyplace.
- Collaboration with IT {industry} Hyperscalers, together with AWS, bettering the expertise of IT channel companions worldwide with consolidated buying and billing to constructing, deploying, and managing customized options and companies.
Xvantage Serves the Trade with Larger Success at Scale
Including to the momentum round Ingram Micro and Xvantage is the continued and rising assist of its clients and expertise distributors.
“The introduction of Xvantage has modified how we work and the way we take into consideration the way forward for our firm and the expertise we wish to create and innovate round for our crew and our clients,” says Invoice Blum, President, Alpine Enterprise Methods and U.S. Co-President of Belief X.
Alliance, an unique, international group of strategic Ingram Micro clients. “The mixed management of Bay and Sahoo is inspiring and impactful. Congrats to Sanjib and Ingram Micro and the continued development and adoption of Xvantage.”
On the 2024 Ingram Micro ONE Innovation Summit, HP’s VP World Channel Associate Gross sales shared his expertise with Sahoo on stage, stating Ingram Micro is “disrupting the distribution at its core” with Xvantage.
Ingram Micro was a pilot accomplice of the brand new Purchase with AWS function obtainable by means of AWS Market. This enables Ingram Micro to supply simplified software program shopping for experiences for patrons on its web site, powered by AWS Market. Moreover, Ingram Micro just lately introduced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Settlement (SCA) with AWS, designed to drive extra enterprise to and thru the worldwide IT channel through Xvantage.
“With the mixed energy of our folks and our Xvantage platform, we are going to distribute even higher success at scale for our rising ecosystem of consumers, distributors, and alliances,” concludes Bay.
About Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro (NYSE: INGM) is a number one expertise firm within the international info expertise ecosystem. With the flexibility to achieve almost 90% of the worldwide inhabitants, we play a significant position within the worldwide IT gross sales channel, bringing services from expertise producers and cloud suppliers to a extremely diversified base of business-to-business expertise consultants. By Ingram Micro XvantageTM, our AI-powered digital platform, we provide what we imagine to be the {industry}’s first complete business-to-consumer-like expertise, integrating {hardware} and cloud subscriptions, personalised suggestions, instantaneous pricing, order monitoring, and billing automation. We additionally present a broad vary of expertise companies, together with financing, specialised advertising and marketing, and lifecycle administration, in addition to technical pre- and post-sales skilled assist.
Be taught extra at www.ingrammicro.com.