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About the Company

Ingram Micro helps businesses fully realize the promise of technology™—helping them maximize the value of the technology that they make, sell or use. With its vast global infrastructure and focus on cloud, mobility, supply chain and technology solutions, Ingram Micro enables business partners to operate more efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve. No other company delivers as broad and deep a spectrum of technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. Founded in 1979, Ingram Micro`s role as a leader and innovator in technology and supply chain services has fueled its rise to the 69th ranked corporation in the FORTUNE 500.

About the Person

Ernest (Ernie) Park serves as senior executive vice president and chief information officer of Ingram Micro Inc. Based at the company’s headquarters in Santa Ana, Calif., Park is responsible for Ingram Micro’s worldwide information and business systems ensuring a stable, effective platform for profitable growth. He leads a global information services organization that supports hundreds of thousands of transactions per day through operations on five continents. He joined the company in December 2013. . Park has nearly 30 years of information technology and shared services leadership experience in industries including computer, distribution, retail and diversified manufacturing. He most recently served as vice president and chief information officer at 3M Corporation, where he was responsible for the corporate-wide information technology organizations supporting a leading diversified global technology company with operations in 72 countries and 85,000 employees. Among his many accomplishments at 3M, Park oversaw significant business and IT transformation initiatives leveraging common business processes, standardized master data and architecture/portfolio rationalization globally. . Prior to joining 3M in 2008, Park served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Select Comfort Corporation since 2006. From 2000 to 2006, he was senior vice president and chief information officer for Maytag Corporation. . He also led the global information technology infrastructure and shared services applications organizations as vice president and chief information officer of Global Business Services at AlliedSignal, and later with Honeywell International, following AlliedSignal's acquisition of Honeywell in 1999. Park also served in roles of increasing responsibility at Avnet Inc. from 1980 to 1996, culminating in his role as corporate vice president, technology services. . Park earned both his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and his MBA from the University of California in Los Angeles. He served on the Customer Advisory Board of Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, Cognizant and Orange, as well as on the Board of Governors for the Engineering School of St. Thomas University.