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Mohammad Ahmad Is Making the Invisible Supply Chain Legible
His career began in the unglamorous details of electronic components. A decade into Z2Data, Mohammad Ahmad is still betting that clean, connected information can turn supply-chain panic into preparation.
Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is the $31 billion company hiding inside the things other companies build. Its advantage is not a single chip or cloud product, but the difficult work between a promising design and a dependable, scalable business.
TE Connectivity
It is one of the largest companies most people have never heard of - the connector and sensor maker behind your car, your factory floor, and the AI data centers everyone else is busy hyping.
Z2Data
Z2Data is a Santa Clara, California supply chain risk management (SCRM) company that turns a normalized database of over a billion electronic components, a million-plus suppliers, and hundreds of thousands of global manufacturing sites into a single platform for mapping, monitoring, and de-risking the technology supply chain. Founded in 2016 by a team with two decades of supply chain experience, it blends human-curated data with AI and machine learning so engineers, procurement teams, compliance officers, and ESG strategists can see part-to-site risk, regulatory exposure, obsolescence, and geopolitical disruption before it reaches the production line.
Cofactr
Cofactr is a New York-based software and logistics company that automates electronics procurement and supply chain operations for hardware manufacturers. Its cloud platform takes a team from bill of materials (BOM) to build by combining AI agents with ITAR-registered warehouses to handle sourcing, ordering, traceability, storage, kitting, and delivery. Cofactr is built for high-compliance, fast-moving industries such as aerospace, defense, robotics, and medical devices.
Sath Sivasothy
Sath Sivasothy is VP of Sales and Marketing at Vyrian Inc., a Houston-based electronic components distributor and government defense contractor he co-founded in 2011. With a background in electrical engineering and over two decades in the semiconductor and electronics industry - including a stint as a Product Development Engineer at Texas Instruments and a run as VP of Sales at Silicon Valley burn-in testing firm CEIBIS Inc. where he doubled gross sales to $7M in 24 months - Sivasothy has built Vyrian into an Inc. 5000 multi-year honoree with 130+ employees across 12 global offices.