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Jeff Bawol
President, Avnet Technology Solutions Americas
Jeff Bawol Recognized as one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs
Jeff Bawol, president of Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas has been named one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT industry. Read Avnet press release.
Avnet Named No. 1 in Its Industry on Fortune's 2012 "Most Admired Companies"
For the fourth consecutive year, Avnet, Inc. was named No. 1 overall in the Wholesaler: Office Equipment and Electronics category in the annual "Most Admired Companies" list by Fortune magazine.
In this year's Fortune list, Avnet ranked first for these attributes:
- People management
- Use of corporate assets
- Social responsibility
- Quality of management
- Financial soundness
- Global competitiveness
Supplier Recognition
Brocade
- Brocade names Avnet Distribuor of the Year in North America (2012)
Cisco
- Avnet Technology Solutions awarded Cisco Worldwide Data Center Architecture Award (2012)
- First distributor certified for Cisco’s Unified computing system B- and C-Series; Authorized Configurator in U.S. and Canada
F5
- Avnet Named F5 Networks' Distributor of the Year (2010)
HP
- HP Partner in Excellence Award (2012)
- HP PartnerOne Portfolio Distributor status
IBM
- Avnet Technology Solutions Wins IBM Tivoli Award for Value Added Distributor Excellence
- IBM Recognizes Avnet’s Lisa Friesenhahn with Lifetime Achievement Award
- IBM Global Services U.S. Sales Leadership Award
- IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for Most Innovative Distributor Finance Program
- IBM Authorized Assembler Program Partner
Microsoft
- Operational Excellence Award, 2006 - 2008
Oracle
- Oracle’s first and largest enterprise distribution partner
Other Awards and Recognition
- Avnet Rises to No. 108 on Fortune 500 List (2012)
- Avnet Receives 2011 Showcase in Excellence Award from Arizona Quality Alliance (2012)
- Avnet’s Cheryl Neal, Gail Brown and Nicole Enright Recognized as Top women in the Channel by CRN (2011); Alison Challman (2010)
- Avnet’s Fred Cuen and Tony Vottima Recognized by CRN as 2011 Channel Chiefs
- Avnet Ranked by Forbes at No. 904 on List of the World’s 1000 Largest Public Companies (2011)
- Computerworld Recognizes Avnet's Leadership in IT with Premier 100 Award (2011)
- Avnet Ranks Among the Top 100 of the InformationWeek 500 for Eighth Consecutive Year (2011)
- Avnet Honored as One of the Top 12 Green IT Organizations in the U.S.
- Avnet Celebrates 50 Years on the NYSE (2010)
