Senior Vice President, Avnet, Inc;
President, Avnet Integrated Resources
Chief Corporate Business Development & Planning Officer
In August 2010 Steve Church was named executive leader of the Avnet Logistics Services business unit, later rebranded as Avnet Integrated Resources. Mr. Church is charged with growing this reverse logistics business organically and through strategic acquisitions. Economic, environmental and technological issues have created new global opportunities for repair or refurbishment of end-user goods, and for recapture of base and rare earth materials, and plastics. Avnet Integrated Resources' mission is to provide these lifecycle management services to benefit industrial customers, consumers and the earth.
Additionally, Mr. Church is responsible for Avnet's global customer engagement program, corporate business development and innovation. The corporate communications function reports to him as well. He reports to CEO Rick Hamada.
Mr. Church previously led the company's global efforts in operational excellence, applying a philosophy of process and system improvements to achieve cost savings, decrease cycle times, enhance customer service and improve overall operational efficiencies.
Mr. Church also served formerly as chief human resources development officer, where he used his skills in strategy development, execution and team-building to carry forward a solid program of people development and became well known as a strong advocate of employee engagement.
Before taking on human resources and organizational development, he was president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, Americas and co-president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, Global. Earlier in his career he held positions within Avnet such as vice president/Southwest area director for Hamilton Hallmark and vice president of corporate marketing for Hamilton Hallmark.
Before joining Avnet in 1991, Mr. Church was employed for 12 years by Signetics (now NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductor) where he served as Western area manager and director of distribution. Prior to Signetics, Mr. Church was employed by Schweber Electronics, where he served as general manager for the Southern California division of the company.
Mr. Church serves on the boards of advisors for Texas A&M University's Industrial Distribution Program and Arizona State University's Center for Services Leadership at the W.P. Carey School of Business. He was honored in December 2003 by the Professional Association for Industrial Distributors for his outstanding support and dedication to the industrial distribution program at Texas A & M University.
In 2009 Mr. Church joined government and business leaders from Arizona as a strategic advisor on the cabinet of the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, a new academic medical center in development.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly Pomona.
Last Updated: 07/27/2011
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