5 Companies That Came To Win This Week For the week ending Jan. 8, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel. By Rick Whiting January 08, 2021, 02:58 PM EST The Week Ending Jan. 8 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is Proofpoint for hiring channel superstar Joe Sykora to be its first global channel chief. Also making the list are AI chip startup Tenstorrent and wireless edge networking vendor Cradlepoint for their own savvy hires. Also making this week’s list is Red Hat for a key acquisition in the Kubernetes security space. And cloud security vendor iBoss is here for closing a blockbuster funding round.