The Phoenix Business Journal recently honored 25 outstanding women in business, and among them was Lynn Torrel, President of Avnet United and Velocity. A sold out ballroom of some 500 attendees – including two tables sponsored by Avnet – came out last week in full force to support the honorees.

Today S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) announced that its Board of Directors has elected Avnet’s CEO William (Bill) Amelio to its Board, effective immediately. 

"Bill is exceptionally qualified and has a proven record as a successful business leader serving global technology markets," said Charles E. "Ed" Haldeman, Jr., Chairman of S&P Global. "He brings the right balance of skill and experience to effectively promote, support and oversee the implementation of S&P Global's long-term

Inspired by a salient question posed by Heather Murphy in The New York Times, Avnet’s director of business transformation, Carla Howard, recently gave a TEDx Talk on the subject of leadership. In seven and a half minutes, she poignantly distilled a decades-long career in business into the answer to a crucial question: how do we encourage and inspire our girls to believe in themselves strongly enough to see themselves as capable of leadership, and to aspire toward it? 

Imagine having truly flexible cellular connectivity, with the ability to move from one carrier to another with ease—and with the same circuit card? This is the freedom that embedded universal integrated circuit cards (eUICCs) offer.

While this is a game changer even on a one-off basis, eUICCs can mean the difference between profitability and proof of concept purgatory for IoT deployments that include hundreds or thousands of connected objects.