The 20 Biggest IT Executive Moves Of 2024
Summary
The year saw multiple companies resort to layoffs to contend with changes in business strategy and new customer buying habits after the pandemic–AMD, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Ingram Micro were among the tech giants to announce headcount cuts in 2024. “Were only beginning to scratch the surface, and now all efforts will be on that endeavor as we go into the next fiscal year and beyond.” Berg promises customers that he will stick to the mission of serving as Google’s most dominant solution provider while navigating SADA through new ownership and a new technological era of artificial intelligence, infrastructure and security. CFO David Zinsner and Client Computing Group General Manager Michelle Johnston Holthaus became the interim co-CEOs, and time will tell how long they navigate one of the biggest providers of chips as AI takes over the world. However, Intel’s financial performance suffered at times under Gelsingers leadership, including in recent quarters, in part because of rising competition in the CPU market from AMD as well as companies designing Arm-based chips such as Amazon Web Services, Ampere Computing and Apple. Arguably the biggest executive change in the IT world in 2024 was Matt Garman succeeding Adam Selipsky as CEO of Amazon Web Services, widely regarded as the largest cloud vendor and a force to be reckoned with as tech enters the AI era.