Avnet Names Miguel Fernandez President Of Avnet Electronics Marketing For EMEA

(RTTNews) - Avnet Inc. (AVT) announced that it has appointed Miguel Fernandez as president of Avnet Electronics Marketing or EM for the EMEA region or Europe, Middle East and Africa.

He will be responsible for the entire components and embedded activities of the EM group in the region and report directly to Gerry Fay, president of Avnet EM Global. Fernandez, who has served for the last 12 years as president of Silica, an Avnet company, takes on this role from Patrick Zammit, who was recently promoted to global president for Avnet Technology Solutions.

Fernandez started his professional career in Spain in the early 80s by founding his own distribution company with the Sonepar Electronics Group (SEI) and serving as executive vice president of that organization. When Avnet acquired SEI in 1999, Fernandez assumed the position of CIO and chief of staff. In 2002, after the creation of Silica, he took responsibility for the new semiconductor distributor. In the last 12 years, together with his team, he managed to establish Silica among the top distributors in Europe, with revenues in excess of 1 Billion Euro in fiscal year 2014, ended June 28, 2014.