Alain Monié is the executive chair of Ingram Micro Inc., the leader in delivering the full spectrum of global technology and supply chain solutions to businesses around the world.

Monié served as CEO from 2012 to January 2022, and is credited with guiding the company through a period of tremendous growth and industry leadership in both existing markets and new, higher-margin fields such as cloud services and e-Commerce logistics. Tilting the emphasis toward these higher growth/higher margin services businesses, Monié led Ingram Micro to a significant enterprise value increase with these investments, as well as through the privatization of the company by its sale to the HNA Group in 2016, and more recently, through Platinum Equity’s definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Ingram Micro. He first joined Ingram Micro in 2003 and was appointed president of the Asia Pacific region a year later. From 2007 to 2010, Monié served as president and chief operating officer of the company. Following one year as CEO of Singapore-based Asia Pacific Resources International Limited, he returned to Ingram Micro as COO in 2011.

Monié’s leadership, operational experience, and unwavering focus on results, enabled him to grow businesses profitably in Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America, successfully launch new business segments/markets, turn around companies in the U.S. (Sogitec), Asia (Ingram Micro) and Latin America (Honeywell) through major business re-orientations and organizational changes, and rapidly adapt targets, organizational structures and individual behaviors to economic and other changes. From 2000 to 2003, he served as president of the Latin American Division of Honeywell International, where he drove consistent revenue growth while also leading the Industrial and Building Automation group in that region. He joined Honeywell through the corporation’s merger with AlliedSignal Inc. in 1999 and played a significant role in their integration. Prior to the merger, Monié led AlliedSignal’s expansion into Asia, especially in Japan, China and India. He also held general management positions with French aerospace company Sogitec Inc., and was a controller for Renault. He began his career in Mexico as an engineer.

He currently serves on the board of directors of the AES Corporation, and was a former board member of Amazon, Expeditors International and Jones Lang LaSalle.
 
Monié earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Institut Supérieur des Affaires, France (now part of the HEC Group). He received high honors in automation engineering studies at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) France.

Paul Bay, a nearly three-decade veteran of the information technology industry, serves as CEO for Ingram Micro. Prior to being named CEO in January 2022, Bay was executive vice president and president Global Technology Solutions with responsibility for the company’s worldwide Technology Solutions business, encompassing operations in more than 50 countries and annual revenues exceeding $40 billion.
 
Previously, Paul served as executive vice president and group president of the Americas, with responsibilities for the overall performance of the company’s operations in U.S., Canada and South America. Before that, he was executive vice president and chief executive, Ingram Micro U.S. and Miami Export, where he presided over the company’s U.S. and Miami Export operations. Previously, he held the role of executive vice president and president, Ingram Micro North America and also served as executive vice president North America, where he was responsible for all partner-facing activities within the company’s core U.S. and Canadian operations, including sales, marketing, technical support and vendor management.

Paul joined Ingram Micro in sales in 1995 and quickly progressed through roles of increasing responsibility. In 2006, he left his position as senior vice president of vendor management at Ingram Micro to take the role of chief executive officer of Punch! Software, based in Kansas City, Mo.
 
Paul returned to Ingram Micro in June 2010 and was the chief architect behind the development of a divisional business unit structure in North America, which led to significantly greater efficiency and productivity and resulted in increased and sustainable revenue growth and profitability for the region.
 
Before joining Ingram Micro in 1995, Paul held sales positions with firms in Southern California, including Triad Computer Systems Corp.
 
Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from California State University, Northridge. He resides in Orange County, Calif. with his family and is an avid runner and fisherman.

 

Michael Zilis serves as chief financial officer of Ingram Micro Inc. He is responsible for the company’s global finance organization, including financial planning and analysis, mergers & acquisitions, treasury and risk management, financial operations, accounting and reporting, internal audit, tax, and global business processes.
 
Prior to his current role, Mike served from August 2016 to December 2019 as executive vice president and group president of Asia Pacific, with responsibility for the company’s overall operations in the Asia Pacific market. Before that, he oversaw the strategy and execution of Ingram Micro’s operations across the Latin American, Eastern European, ASEAN and Hong Kong markets. Mike also previously led the company’s Latin American Technology Solutions business as executive vice president and president - Latin America, 2015, where he presided over all aspects of the company’s core distribution business for the region. Before this, Mike was executive vice president of Asia Pacific, where he was accountable for the region's operations while also heading special projects, including the company's recovery program in Australia and assisting with the integration of the company's Middle East acquisition of Aptec.
 
Mike joined Ingram Micro in 2006 as senior vice president and corporate controller, heading the company’s financial planning and analysis, external and internal financial reporting, long-term strategic planning, financial due diligence and merger and acquisition work. Prior to Ingram Micro, Mike was vice president and corporate controller for Avnet, Inc., where he was instrumental in leading the company’s cost-saving initiatives and efforts to streamline and add efficiency to ongoing processes.
 
Mike began his career with 10 years in the commercial audit practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Accounting from Boston College. Mike is a member of the Board of Directors at Veritone and resides in Orange County with his wife.

 

Jennifer Anaya is senior vice president, Global Marketing at Ingram Micro. Serving as the industry leader’s Chief Marketing Officer, she is responsible for leading the strategy and direction of the company’s brand, as well as driving growth through enhanced customer experience and digital marketing functions. Jennifer leads a large global in-house agency, Agency Ingram Micro (AIM), which specializes in channel marketing. She also oversees Ingram Micro’s global partner community, Trust X Alliance.

With 21 years at Ingram Micro and more than two decades of technology industry experience, Jennifer is a proven and innovative IT channel leader and change agent. In 2023, she led the development and launch of the company’s first digital marketing engine, which powers a personalized customer experience and enriched marketing services inside the company’s digital experience distribution platform, Ingram Micro Xvantage™.

Tapping into her entrepreneurial spirit, Jennifer established the IT channel’s first dedicated, full-service marketing agency in 2006, which consistently earns industry praise and was recognized as the global ACE In-House Agency of the Year by ANA Business Marketing two years in a row. She has also led the transformation, geographic expansion, and now digitization of the longest standing IT partner community into a high-growth cohort of trusted experts spanning six countries.

Jennifer serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of a non-profit, Girls Inc. of Orange County. She is a mom to two teenage girls and enjoys skiing, cooking, and entertaining in her free time.

Augusto Aragone serves as executive vice president, secretary and general counsel for Ingram Micro Inc., a leader in delivering the full spectrum of global technology and supply-chain solutions to businesses around the world.

Aragone is a multicultural business attorney with more than 20 years of experience in international corporate law practice as in-house counsel with multinational companies.

He joined Ingram Micro in 2008 as regional counsel for Latin America and has successfully worked through a variety of increasingly complex legal leadership roles with the company, especially in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions. He rose to the level of vice president and associate general counsel prior to earning the promotion to his current position in December 2016.

Before joining Ingram Micro, Aragone worked as legal director for Latin America in the law department of DHL in Plantation, Fla. A native of Uruguay, Aragone worked in several business roles in the international logistics industry in Latin America prior to embarking on his legal career.

Aragone holds a juris doctor degree from Uruguay State University, a master’s degree from Bologna University in Italy and a master of laws degree from the University of Miami. He is admitted to the New York bar.

Luis Férez serves as senior vice president and president, Latin America for Ingram Micro Inc. In this role, Férez is responsible for driving strategy and execution of the company’s operations in the Latin American region.
 
Prior to his promotion in January 2022, Férez served as Ingram Micro’s vice president and chief country executive for Mexico, Peru and Colombia where he helped lead the countries through periods of strong growth, while capitalizing on market demand for new services and solutions in cloud, IoT and security, among others. He is a dynamic leader who has taken an innovative approach to building high-value Advanced, Cloud and Consumer Solutions, as well as Lifecycle, Managed and Professional Services for partners and customers.
 
Férez joined Ingram Micro Mexico in 1997 as a logistics manager and worked his way through a variety of leadership roles in operations, sales, and marketing. He left Ingram Micro in 2009 before returning in 2013 as general manager. In 2015, Férez was promoted to vice president and Chief Country Executive of Ingram Micro Mexico, overseeing the country’s Technology Solutions, Cloud, Mobility, and Commerce and Fulfillment businesses. Earlier in his career, Férez held leadership positions at Toshiba and Samsung.
 
Férez was born in México City and holds an Industrial Engineering degree with an emphasis in International Business from Tecnológico de Monterrey and completed the D1 program at El Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE Business School).
 
 

Uddhav Gupta is senior vice president and president of CloudBlue, Ingram Micro Inc.’s leading cloud ecosystem platform business. In this role, he is responsible for driving the overall strategy and execution of CloudBlue.

Uddhav joined Ingram Micro in February 2023 from Pure Storage, where he most recently served as vice president and general manager of Pure1 and Pure-as-a-Service. In that role, Uddhav spearheaded the development of a world-class service offering and the necessary commerce infrastructure to support a subscription business, while introducing new digital routes-to-market and unmatched channel experiences. Before joining Pure Storage, Uddhav spent nearly 14 years with SAP. His final two roles at SAP were global vice president – SAP Platform-as-a-Service, and global vice president and general manager, SAP Digital. In these functions, Uddhav and his team were responsible for building out a rich set of native cloud services required by customers and partners to build new applications, extensions, and integrations to the SAP applications and the necessary subscription, commerce, and marketplace capabilities to transact these services and ecosystem products. Earlier in his SAP career, Uddhav held vital product and go-to-market leadership positions focusing on SAP NetWeaver – SAP's core application and integration platform and SAP HANA – SAP's in-memory database, predictive analytics & data warehousing platform.

Uddhav holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Mumbai and a Master of Computer Science from the University of San Francisco.

Sabine Howest is senior vice president of Platform Services and Support at Ingram Micro, where she leads the company’s platform service centers located in Asia and Eastern Europe. Her global team is responsible for engaging Ingram Micro’s customers and vendors, providing essential support to external partners and internal associates, and playing a critical role in the growing success of Ingram Micro’s digital journey.

Prior to her current role, Sabine oversaw the digital operations team responsible for the development, growing adoption and continued scale of Ingram Micro’s digital experience platform Xvantage. Her commercial product team was instrumental in the platform’s innovation cycle and remains a strategic part of Ingram Micro’s transformation to become a platform business. 

Since joining Ingram Micro in 2009, Sabine has held various go-to-market and vendor management roles throughout Europe and in the U.S. In 2021, she became one of the first global executives appointed to lead and execute the company’s vision and innovation of Ingram Micro’s Xvantage platform. 

A multilingual global executive, Sabine is celebrated for her inquisitive mind, inclusive nature and transformative leadership. Over the years, she has earned many accolades, including being named a CRN Power 100 and Most Inclusive business leader. 

She also has board experience, serving as a board observer for a public Canadian company and as a member of Global Advisory Boards for several technology leaders, including HPE, HP Inc, IBM and Red Hat.

Originally from Germany, Sabine holds a master’s degree in international trade and a bachelor's degree in foreign applied languages from Sorbonne University in France. She also holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD where she was honored with a full INSEAD-Handelsblatt Scholarship in 2008.

Bill Ross serves as executive vice president of Global Operations and Engineering for Ingram Micro.
 
He is responsible for developing and executing the company’s long-term global operations and engineering strategies including facility automation and optimization, quality, trade compliance, health and safety, and continuous improvement activities, along with driving standardization on key processes and global KPIs. Bill is also accountable for the company’s global sourcing, real estate function, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts. Bill was named to this position in September 2019 and is based in Irvine, Calif.
 
Prior to this role, Bill was senior vice president for Ingram Micro’s U.S. Operations, where he presided over the company’s logistics and supply chain functions in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.
 
Bill joined Ingram Micro in December 2014, following 16 years at Staples Inc., a Fortune 500 global office supply retail company. At Staples, he served as vice president of Supply Chain Operations with responsibility for managing supply chain functions, e-commerce fulfillment centers, delivery operations, engineering and supply chain strategy teams. Bill began his career at PepsiCo where he held various leadership roles, including leading the greenfield startup of a state-of-the-art bottling plant.
 
Bill graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering. He is married with two children and lives in Orange County, Calif.

 

“Digital transformation is a continuous journey in digitizing operations to create and capture value for everyone.”

Sanjib Sahoo is an award-winning global technology and business executive and the EVP, Global Technology and chief digital officer of Ingram Micro, a worldwide leader in technology distribution and the brand behind today's established and emerging technology brands.

Sahoo joined Ingram Micro in 2021. He is leading the global technology strategy and digitization of Ingram Micro, which includes the company’s digital twin, Ingram Micro Xvantage™. He has responsibilities for global technology, digital platforms and digital operations, as well as the company’s product, data, engineering and digital marketing groups.

Sahoo has been involved in leading digital transformation in two different industries: the financial services industry and the transportation industry. He has won dozens of awards for his leadership, humanity and technology innovation including the prestigious 2023 Bharat Samman Award at the House of Lords for being a global technology and business icon, as well as being named to Fortune India’s 2023 “Unstoppables,” where Sahoo was named one of the World’s Most Influential Personalities and Business Minds.

Known for his empathetic leadership and growth mindset, Sahoo was named one of Passion Vista Magazine’s 2023 Men Leaders to Look Up To. AsiaOne awarded him 2023 Person of the Year and The CIO Times Magazine designated Sahoo one of Five Most Innovative Business Leaders of the Year. In 2022, he was appointed to the High Flyers 50, named one of the Indian Achievers of the Year, recognized within the Top 10 Most Influential Business Leaders of the Year by the Times of India, named Global Icon for Technology by Economic Times and Pride of India by Global Eye Magazine, and celebrated within CBT’s Top 100 IoT Influencers of the Year. Additionally, Sahoo was one of just ten global executives named to Constellation Research’s Business Transformation Hall of Fame in 2021.

An alumnus of Harvard Business School and keynote speaker, Sahoo brings a unique combination of business acumen and technical prowess. He holds several patents for data and streaming technologies. He is an industry thought leader, a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Wired, Forbes and also a TED and NASSCOM speaker.

Scott Sherman is executive vice president of Human Resources for Ingram Micro Inc., with responsibilities including the identification, development and implementation of the company's human resources strategies in support of the organization's global objectives. Sherman oversees all aspects of human resources worldwide, including organization development and talent management, compensation and benefits, payroll, learning and development and the Human Resources Information Systems. He also oversees Corporate Communications and Brand for the company and has oversight for Business Intelligence. He joined Ingram Micro in May 2015.

Sherman is a global human resources and business leader with deep compensation, benefits and HR Operations leadership experience. He has a successful track record of leading complex business initiatives, driving functional and operational excellence and building strong collaborative relationships.  

Prior to joining Ingram Micro, Sherman served as executive vice president of Human Resources and a member of the Executive Committee at Allergan from September 2010 to March 2015. While in that role, he oversaw the global rewards programs, succession and talent development and planning, and significantly supported the organization’s global expansion.   

Before Allergan, Sherman worked at Medtronic, Inc., which he joined as Human Resources Manager, U.S. Cardiovascular Sales and Marketing in 1995. During his 15-year tenure, he held positions of increasing scope and responsibility, the last as vice president of Global Total Rewards and HR Operations, Corporate Staff.

Earlier in his career, Sherman worked for Exxon Company U.S.A., Fuel Products Marketing, in various HR roles, and as a territory manager.

He holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs with concentrations in International Economics and Labor Studies from the George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs. Sherman was recognized with the 2014 National Human Resources Association Executive of the Year award in Orange County, Calif.

Mark Snider serves as executive vice president and group president EMEA, with responsibility for overall operational performance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  

Prior to this role, Snider was the vice president and general manager of Ingram Micro Canada, where he oversaw the company’s Canadian operations. While leading the Canadian operations, Snider increased customer and vendor efficiencies through the implementation of best practices across Canada and the U.S. Snider was also instrumental in establishing Ingram Micro as the largest value-add IT distributor and leading business enabler in Canada.

Snider joined the organization in 1995 as director of Inside Sales. Over the years he has held senior leadership roles as senior director, Major Accounts Division; vice president of Sales for Canada; and general manager of Partner Development.

Snider has more than 20 years of IT sales management, distribution and marketing experience. He began his career with Xerox Canada before going on to serve as vice president at Corporate Express and Micro Warehouse Canada before joining Dell Canada to manage their Canadian Emerging Businesses Division. Snider holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto. He is a native of Toronto where he resides with his wife and two daughters.
 

Diego Utge serves as Ingram Micro Inc. executive vice president and group president of Asia Pacific. In this role he is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of Ingram Micro’s operations in the Asia Pacific market. He was named to this position in January 2020.
 
Prior to this role, Diego served for two years as senior vice president and chief country executive of Ingram Micro India, where he was instrumental in implementing strategic imperatives that helped deliver rapid growth across one of the company’s largest country operations. Prior to taking on his role in India, Diego was vice president and chief executive for the company’s Brazilian operations, spending seven years transforming the country and driving robust improvements in revenue growth and profitability for the company’s largest Latin American operations. Before joining Ingram Micro Brazil, Diego was responsible for Vendor Management and Marketing for the company’s Latin America region.
 
Diego has been with Ingram Micro for over 17 years and has multifunctional experience in Finance, Sales, Vendor Management and Marketing. Prior to joining Ingram Micro, he worked for PwC in the Financial Advisory practice. Diego graduated from Universidad Catolica Argentina with a degree in Administration & Finance, and has a post-graduate degree in Business Administration from UCEMA.