Avnet has appointed Danny Yeowell as Director for its Technology Solutions UK Security and Networking business unit.
Yeowell has over 30 years experience within the IT industry working for manufacturers and systems integrators across a broad range of sectors and joins from Dimension Data where he was UK solutions director.
Prior to this he headed up pre-sales and architecture at Logicalis for six years.
Yeowell will be responsible for accelerating growth and profitability for Avnet, its partners and suppliers in the area of security and networking - a business in which Avnet UK has seen double-digit growth in the last year.
Christian Curtis, Sales Director, Avnet Technology Solutions, UK, said: "Danny has considerable experience in an area of the market that presents significant opportunity and where we have high ambitions to accelerate growth for our partners and suppliers.
"Security and networking is pervasive to all areas of technology and none more so than next-generation, where huge growth is predicted.
"Over the last few years we've invested heavily in building out a security centre of excellence, which has enabled us to deliver significant value to our partners and reaped rewards for all concerned. We will continue to invest in this important area."