Avnet Partner Solutions Selects Dennis O'Connell to Lead IBM Business Unit.TEMPE, Ariz. -- Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas, the leading value-added distributor of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, today announced that Dennis O'Connell has been selected vice president and general manager of Avnet Partner Solutions, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Business Unit. He brings a strong track record and deep industry experience and will be responsible for driving the continued growth and strategic direction of the business. O'Connell has more than 29 years of experience with IBM, the last six years working directly with Avnet helping to build the company's IBM business into the largest distribution relationship with IBM globally. He held a variety of executive positions in sales, marketing and operations, including international management positions in Europe. He also served as general manager, General Business for IBM Australia. "In all of the roles Denny has had at IBM, he has demonstrated strong leadership, a passion for developing people, and the ability to achieve superior results," said Fred J. Cuen, president, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. "I am thrilled he has accepted this position, and I believe he is a strong addition to the Avnet leadership team." O'Connell graduated from Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. , where he received a bachelor's of science degree in marketing in 1976. About Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas is an industry-leading, value-added distributor and provider of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, with operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Mexico and Canada. Avnet Partner Solutions provides solutions from industry-leading manufacturers including Computer Associates, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , HP, IBM, Microsoft, Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , Oracle, StorageTek and VERITAS -- driving growth for partners and manufacturers. Avnet Partner Solutions is a division of the Avnet Technology Solutions operating group of Avnet Inc. For more information, visit www.aps.avnet.com. Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ) enables success from the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 250 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronic components, enterprise computer products and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. Avnet generated more than $10 billion in revenue in fiscal 2004 (year ended July 3, 2004) through sales in 68 countries. For more information, visit www.avnet.com. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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