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Avnet Inc. Director of Credit John Clark reports to Chief Financial Officer Raymond Sadowski and has dotted line responsibility to the operating group financial officers of Avnet Electronics Marketing and Avnet Technology Solutions.
Mr. Clark joined Avnet in November of 1983 as assistant controller responsible for general accounting at the company's Culver City California location. For the next several years Mr. Clark held various positions such as customer contracts manager and manager of budget and sales administration. He later became the operations manager for the Chatsworth California sales office and subsequently was promoted to operations manager for the Southwest area. He then became the district sales manager for Avnet's dedicated Hughes Aircraft sales and support team. After that he was named director of the kitting operation.
Subsequently Mr. Clark was asked to run the corporate administration organization for Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM). He then moved to the new Avnet Computer Marketing Group as vice president and director of operations to manage all non-sales functions. In 1992 Mr. Clark was appointed to head up the Total Quality Management efforts for Avnet EM.
Mr. Clark's functions were then migrated into an organization called Administrative Operations where he took on the additional responsibilities of corporate account manager travel real estate customer contracts non-inventory purchasing and the telesales program. During this time he chaired the Quality Council and the Information Services Division User Committee.
In 1995 Avnet was awarded a site visit on its quest to win the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award as a direct result of Mr. Clark's involvement in spearheading the internal program that won this recognition.
In August 1996 Mr. Clark moved Administrative Operations to its new home in Arizona and welcomed finance and human resources under its umbrella.
He served in this role under several different titles until rejoining Avnet Computer Marketing (now Avnet Technology Solutions) in July 1997 as group financial officer with responsibility for administration credit and finance.
In July 2003 Mr. Clark was given responsibility for consolidating Avnet's North American credit and collection functions. | 