Graham McBeth is President of Avnet Abacus, the Avnet Electronics Marketing business specialising in interconnect, passive, electromechanical, power supply and battery products throughout Europe. Reporting to Patrick Zammit, Avnet EM President, McBeth has overall responsibility for Avnet Abacus operations across the region.

Previously, McBeth was Group Managing Director of Abacus and responsible for Abacus’ Sales & Marketing strategy. He joined Abacus in 1995 and was appointed to the main Board two years later as Technical Director. He joined Abacus from National, where he spent 11 years in a variety of roles, from Product Marketing to Distribution & Sales Management.

Alan Jermyn, Vice President of Marketing at Avnet Abacus, has occupied senior management roles at the Abacus Group for over eight years, most recently as General Manager, Abacus ECD. Previous positions include Managing Director of Abacus Group’s Micromark and Abacus Deltron UK component distribution businesses, General Manager of Dubilier and Eledis and Marketing Director of Micromark C&CD. He joined the Abacus Group in 2000 with the acquisition of passives distributor C&CD, where he was joint Managing Director.

Reporting to Graham McBeth, Avnet Abacus President, Wood has overall responsibility for Avnet Abacus Assets and Operational Issues across the region.
Previously, Wood was Director of Operations of Abacus and responsible for Abacus’ IT and Warehousing  strategy. He joined Abacus in 1992 and was appointed to the Operational Board in 2005. He has spent the last 25 years in Distribution in a variety of  Sales, Asset, Marketing and Operational roles.

Nigel Ward, Sales Director, UK for Avnet Abacus & Silica, brings over eighteen years experience of component distribution sales to the organisation. He was Sales Director of Abacus ECD and previously Sales Director at Abacus subsidiary Trident. Prior to this, he spent sixteen years at Abacus Group’s Micromark component distribution business, including six years as Sales Director.

Henrik Günther, Director of Nordic Sales at Avnet Abacus, was previously Managing Director of Abacus Conelec, a specialist electromechanical distribution business in the Nordic region. He joined Conelec in 1993 as Sales Manager, a position that he continued to hold when the business was sold to Deltron. When Abacus acquired Deltron in 2006, he was promoted to Managing Director. Günther started his career with Tyco in 1987 in an external sales position.

Thierry Hoogstoel, Country Director, France at Avnet Abacus, has thirty years experience in electromechanical and passive component sales, working at both manufacturers and distributors. He was Managing Director of Abacus RDI Deltron since 2006, joining from semiconductor distributor Attitude where he was Sales Director. Prior to this he was at Arrow for twelve years, initially as Military and Aerospace market manager and then as Strategic Account Manager. Hoogstoel has also held sales and marketing positions with Augat, ITT, Tekelec, Radiall and Etri. 

Knappmann brings 30 years experience of local, national and global distribution of passive, electromechanical and other components to the role. He joins Avnet Abacus from Arrow, where he was Director for Lighting Business Development in the EMEA region. He joined Arrow when it acquired Sasco Semiconductor GmbH, where he spent ten years, including seven as Managing Director. Previously, Knappmann spent five years in sales and general management positions at Future Electronics Deutschland GmbH.  He also spent ten years in sales positions with Bodamer GmbH, RUF GmbH and Schmid Unisell GmbH.

Donà first entered the electronic distribution industry in 1978. Since then Donà has gained experience in various market sectors including semiconductor architecture, embedded devices and IP&E, working both for international companies and, for a limited period of time, managing his own company. In April 2008 he joined AbacusECC after 16 years at Arrow, and assumed a variety of responsibilities in sales and distribution.

Jocher started her career in the IT industry, working for companies such as Compaq, Sun Microsystems and Informix as Sales Manager.  She has developed a great deal of experience in East-Europe through various sales roles since 1993, ultimately joining WBC (an EBV company) in 1998 and a year later becoming General Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey.
In 2005, Jocher joined Avnet Time as Director of Sales – Eastern Europe, Austria, Greece and Turkey. She continues in this role following the acquisition of the Abacus Group by Avnet in 2009, to become Director of Sales – Eastern Europe.

Henebiens brings over 30 years of experience in electronic component distribution. After working in R&D and service for Naval Electronics he started his sales career at Rodelco Electronics. The later SE/Rodelco was a pioneer in electronics distribution in the Benelux region and had by far the largest market share in both semiconductors and interconnect products.

Henebiens held different sales and marketing managing roles over the years before the company was acquired by Avnet in 2001, at which time he became Regional Vice President for the Benelux region. In addition to this, Henebiens is responsible for developing the Military and Aerospace market across Europe for Avnet Abacus.

Revilla brings over 30 years of experience in Electronic componet distribution to Avnet Abacus. He was one of the founders of Sonepar Electronique in Spain, helping in the creation of SELCO in 1983 as Sales Manager along with Miguel Fernandez (Silica President), and creating  in 1985 ADM Electronica from scratch (both Sonepar Electronique companies).
In 1998 Javier Revilla took over both companies, until 2001 when he joined AVNET following the acquisition of Sonepar Electronique group and Revila remained as Managing Director.
Today, Revilla handles the business of Avnet Abacus, Avnet Memec and Silica in Iberia.