SANJIB SAHOO XVANTAGE
Sanjib Sahoo won Personality of the Year at last year’s Stockies, and his passion and drive are helping to ensure that Xvantage continually develops to provide an optimum platform for partners and customers.
When Sanjib Sahoo starts talking about Xvantage by Ingram Micro, his passion for it is clear, in the animated way he talks and his clear message about the advantages it brings to those that use it. His passion and pride in Xvantage shine through as he has overseen it from its ideation and development days and continues to oversee the Global Platform Group driving Ingram Micro to become a platform company. But for Sanjib, passion for what he does is a key part of his personality. “I have passion in everything I do, because if I don’t have the passion, I don’t have the purpose,” he says. “I do what I do because I love what I do. I wake up every morning with my passion to do something." This passion was part of the reason why he won the Personality of the Year Award at the Stock in the Channel Awards – aka the Stockies – last year. “I was humbled with that, especially as there was a lot of competition in the category,” he says. “It’s not just another executive award or a design award, it’s personal. So, this award is incredibly special to me because it's about who I am, not what I am. It is my personality that was acknowledged, not what I do for the channel. That’s why I’m humbled for the recognition.” But passion is only part of what makes Sanjib, there is also fashion – he is noted for being a sharp dresser. “You have to combine passion with a little bit of fashion,” he adds with a smile.
“But it is also important to have compassion. You must not be arrogant but compassionate because everybody has good in them, every company has good, everything has good, and they have also bad in them. It’s our choice to be compassionate about the bad and focus on the good in them. “Finally, you must also have execution – you must deliver what you say and say what you deliver. These four things – passion, fashion, compassion and execution – are what makes me and drive me on to try and make things better for people.” Xvantage journey It is these qualities that Sanjib uses to lead his team on Xvantage and travel the world to extol its virtues to all those involved in the channel and encourage them to join the platform. Global integration is integral to the Xvantage story – and not just because it is a global product. While it was launched more than two years ago, Sanjib likens Xvantage to a journey, as it is constantly evolving. “We’re on a journey to become a B2B platform ecosystem company,” he says. “Every day we are building Xvantage, every day we are launching Xvantage, every day we are listening to our partners about Xvantage. “We started with the vision of not building fragmented marketplaces, but connecting the ecosystem between our OEMs, vendors, us in the middle and our channel partners who then connect
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You must not be arrogant but compassionate because everybody has good in them, every company has good, everything has good, and they have also bad in them. It's our choice to be compassionate about the bad and focus on the good in them.
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