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About the Company

The work Arrow does goes into everything from cars to coffee makers. Whether it`s something you`ve never seen before or the things you can`t live without, if it takes a charge, chances are it was built with Arrow. When you think about the world of Five Years Out, Arrow is helping design it, build it and source it. We are a Fortune 118 company with 2017 sales of $26.6 billion. Our team includes 18,800 employees worldwide across more than 345 locations serving 80 countries. We help the world`s best technology companies think “Five Years Out,” working together to innovate the next big thing after the next big thing.

About the Person

Vincent P. Melvin is senior vice president and chief information officer of Arrow Electronics, Inc., with responsibility for managing the company's global information technology systems, services and capabilities. Prior to Arrow, Melvin was executive vice president and chief information officer of Sanmina-SCI, Inc. (SSCI), a leading electronics manufacturing services provider, where he successfully established a customer-focused organization that closely aligned IT initiatives and investment with the business strategy. Before joining SSCI in 2000, Melvin was director of information systems at Solectron Technology where he was responsible for all IT services and operations in the company's East region. Earlier, he held various positions of increasing responsibility at IBM Corporation in IT, logistics, and systems engineering during an 18-year career at the company. Melvin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Trinity College and a Master of Science degree in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University.