2025 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leaders

by Jennifer Follett, CRN

Innovation is crucial in the IT industry. That includes not just the technology itself, but how that IT is delivered to businesses to help them utilize it to its maximum potential.

With rapid developments in key sectors like artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, solution providers must remain innovative. And that often calls for new thinking. For the channel, that requires people with new ideas, new talents and new life experiences to develop and deliver leading-edge IT solutions.

The list recognizes solution provider employees 40 years of age or younger who have made significant contributions to their company's strategic direction and helped drive growth during the past year.

Here's a look at over 100 rising stars in the channel, including a brief overview of what they see as some of their biggest accomplishments and most innovative ideas over the past year.

Ellie Cosgrove
Director, AI Strategy, Sales
World Wide Technology

Cosgrove managed and expanded WWT's NVIDIA partnership, capturing new business and supporting solution development to expand market reach. She also grew relationships with leading AI compute, storage and networking partners, strategic ISVs and emerging AI-focused partners, all of which helped grow market share and created a repeatable framework to capture new AI workloads.