Toshiba Leader Larry White Wins Best Male Executive Honor

LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 17, 2025--

The Cannata Report, a leading intelligence resource for the imaging, business technology and managed print services industry, presents its 2025 Frank Award for Best Male Executive to Toshiba America Business Solutions President and Chief Executive Officer Larry White.

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The honor recognizes the year's outstanding male executive leader in the office technology industry who demonstrates exceptional vision, integrity, and performance. Honorees are evaluated by the dealer channel on their leadership impact, contributions to innovation and business growth, commitment to dealer and customer success, and dedication to advancing the industry as a whole.

“Larry White’s recognition as Best Male Executive demonstrates the tremendous respect he has earned from office technology dealers nationwide throughout his distinguished career in the industry,” says The Cannata Report President and Chief Executive Officer CJ Cannata. “Larry’s tenure as CEO has been marked by innovative, forward-thinking leadership, consistent messaging, and accessibility. In addition to his intellect, Larry is uniquely personable and likable. He effortlessly infuses an inherent, authentic wit and congeniality into his role. His recognition as Best Male Executive, determined by votes cast in our 2025 Annual Dealer Survey, confirms that the dealer community values White’s stewardship, including the strategic partner initiatives he has implemented, the support he and his team consistently provide, and the flair with which he oversees it all.”

Toshiba has celebrated 21 Frank Awards since the accolades were first presented in 1985. This number includes eight Best Male Executive honors as well as eight Best-in-Class recognitions (more than any other manufacturer). Votes from The Cannata Report's Annual Dealer Survey determine award nominees and winners.

“Receiving the Frank Award for Best Male Executive within our industry is a true honor,” states White. “I'm so very thankful to the entire reseller community and to the Cannata family for presenting this award to me. I also thank our team of Toshiba employees, particularly the ones who don't receive the recognition they deserve, for creating a company where people enjoy working and one with which people enjoy partnering.”

Before ascending to Toshiba America Business Solutions' top job in June 2021, White served as the company's chief operating officer. Within this leadership role, he oversaw strategic planning across the organization, with specific responsibility for Toshiba's sales, customer service, supply chain, innovation, professional services, and solutions marketing operations throughout North and South America.

White holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University and, in 2023, was one of four individuals recognized as a Distinguished Alumni by the Rawls School of Business at Texas Tech.

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About The Cannata Report

The Cannata Report is the leading intelligence resource for the document imaging channel in the office technology industry, covering a range of topics, including managed IT solutions, managed print services, digital transformation, cybersecurity, cloud communications, network security, production printing, services and supplies, vendor finance, mergers and acquisitions, and more. Written specifically for the independent dealer channel, The Cannata Report, founded in 1982, has an audience that includes business leaders in the office technology industry's hardware, software, IT, leasing, and supplies segments.

About Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions is a leading innovator of solutions empowering people to perform efficiently and effectively in their work environment. Serving professionals across the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America, Toshiba delivers secure and sustainable systems, services, and subscriptions to better print, manage, and display information. Toshiba continuously focuses on its clients and communities, is committed to sustainability, and is recognized as a Wall Street Journal Top 100 Sustainable Company. To learn more, please visit business.toshiba.com. Follow Toshiba on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and YouTube.

The Cannata Report, a leading intelligence resource for the imaging, business technology and managed print services industry, presents its 2025 Frank Award for Best Male Executive to Toshiba America Business Solutions President and Chief Executive Officer Larry White.

Say goodbye to DRS, and hello to an electrical power boost.

Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marked the last time Formula 1 uses the Drag Reduction System overtaking aid, introduced in 2011. Next year, drivers will have to manage the car's systems more closely than ever with a more visible role for aerodynamic and electrical technology.

After a season-long title battle ended with Lando Norris' first title, here's what to expect in 2026:

The biggest regulation changes in years make cars shorter, narrower and lighter, with movable “active aerodynamics” — X-mode for straight-line speed, Z-mode for cornering — and more reliance on electric hybrid power.

The FIA's target was for electrical power to make up half of total output along with a traditional V6 turbo engine. Instead of DRS, drivers can deploy extra electrical power at key moments. That makes driving even more strategic but could lead to drivers lifting off the power and coasting on some straights to allow the electrical systems to harvest energy.

The FIA claims the rules emphasize driver skill but there have been mixed reviews from those who've tried 2026 designs in their teams' simulators.

Smaller, more agile cars could help overtaking but the fastest and slowest cars may be up to four seconds per lap apart on pace, tire supplier Pirelli has reported. In F1 terms, that's an eternity. Expect to see more engine failures as teams balance reliability with performance.

Could this be the year Lewis Hamilton finds his form again at Ferrari and chases an eighth title? Maybe not.

Even though he never got on with the 2022-25 cars, Hamilton told the BBC he was “not looking forward” to 2026 after the Las Vegas Grand Prix last month, yet another disappointment since he joined Ferrari.

Mercedes has designed some of F1's most dominant engines before, but its eye-catching “zero-pod” aerodynamic concept was a bust when the last regulation period began in 2022. Get both aspects right this time and George Russell could be a title contender after two wins in 2025. Mercedes also supplies engines to McLaren and Alpine.

Another team to watch is Aston Martin, which has its first car created with design great Adrian Newey in charge, now with Honda power, and is hoping it can make two-time champion Fernando Alonso an F1 race winner for the first time in 13 years. Williams too could make a step forward after abandoning its 2025 projects early to focus on 2026.

The F1 grid expands to 22 cars for the first time since 2016 as Cadillac becomes the 11th team with backing from General Motors.

The newest team will have two of the most experienced drivers as Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez return, with a combined 16 wins and 527 starts between them.

The American team has been taking lessons from NASA space programs and has a British boss who compares himself to an “inverse Ted Lasso” for the culture shock of working in U.S. auto racing.

British 18-year-old Arvid Lindblad will be the only rookie in 2026 at Racing Bulls. Eight of 10 existing teams have played it safe with the same driver lineup so the only other change is Isack Hadjar moving up to Red Bull to join Verstappen. Yuki Tsunoda drops into a reserve role.

The Madring is the one new circuit on the 2026 calendar. The Madrid street circuit takes over the Spanish Grand Prix title from Barcelona, which stays on the calendar as Spain gets a second race for the first time since 2012.

That means no space for Italy's second F1, the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at the Imola circuit, which has held five races since 2020.

The season's over but there's one more day of driving left in 2025. Tuesday sees a single day of testing in Abu Dhabi with teams using modified “mule” cars to try out next year's tires, along with F1's usual test day for young drivers.

After 2025's red-carpet season launch show in London, the start of the 2026 season will be low-key.

The new cars hit the track for the first time at a private test in Spain starting Jan. 26.

There are two more open testing sessions in Bahrain in February before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 8.

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McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain celebrates after becoming a world champion after the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Crowd erupts as McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain reacts on the podium after becoming the Formula One world champion following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, as the sun sets behind the track. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)