Give Something Back
Ricky Cooper
Head of Worldwide Channel & Commercial Organization
VMware
“It’s the capacity to have an effect on the character, development or behavior of somebody or something to affect itself. When you translate that into what we do, getting towards a lot of experience under my belt … and you’re at the other side of 50 now, [it’s about] what we can leave as influencers. … There are so many new characters coming into the industry, a great push on diversity, so being an influencer now really is at the pinnacle of understanding IT and having the history under your belt. … To have that history and to have seen everything we’ve seen over the years … and to now be able to give something back in a meaningful way.”