Avnet Silica Executive Team

Led by the President, Gilles Beltran, the members of the Executive Management Team drive the direction, business strategy and operations of Avnet Silica within Avnet EMEA.

 

Gilles Beltran - President

Before becoming President of Avnet Silica, Gilles Beltran was Vice President Sales & Supplier Management for Avnet Silica. Gilles joined Silica in 2002. Since then he has held a number of different sales positions and quickly advanced from the field to management. He brings with him a strong knowledge of both the electronics distribution business, and the Avnet internal processes.

Trained in sales, and with an electrical engineering degree (Master), Gilles started his career at onsemi in 2000 as a product manager before joining Silica.

Gilles Beltran

Laurent Bizouard - VP EMEA Operations

Laurent Bizouard leads Operations for Avnet Silica in EMEA. Laurent holds a university degree in electronics and has spent most of his career at Avnet with various roles in Sales, Marketing and Procurement. He is married, has two grown-up children and lives in the regional park of the Chevreuse valley, located southwest of Paris.

Laurent Bizouard

Maryannick Dauba - VP Sales EMEA

As Vice President of Sales for EMEA, Maryannick manages the entirety of EMEA from a sales perspective for Avnet Silica. With a degree in International Negotiations, Maryannick speaks several languages after living in Spain, Canada, UK and France. Before starting with Avnet Silica, she worked in several roles such as Regional Sales Manager, Corporate Accounts Manager or Product Marketing Manager. Her entire career has been in electronic components Distribution.

Maryannick Dauba

Frank Stephan - Regional VP Sales for DACH & NL

Frank Stephan, Regional Vice President Sales DACH & Netherlands, manages core territories for Avnet Silica. Frank joined Avnet through its acquisition of Memec GmbH in 2005. Since 2015 he has been responsible for Avnet Silica’s Sales activities in Central and Eastern Europe. Frank holds a Master of Electrical Engineering from Stuttgart University. 

Frank Stephan

Mark McGill - Regional VP North Europe

Mark has been with Avnet for 15 years where he has been in a number of roles including Business Development, Sales Management and most recently Director of the Avnet Abacus and Avnet Silica combined sales front-end team in the UK & Ireland. Before joining Avnet, he spent 9 years working at Vishay based out of the UK working with their distribution network.

Mark McGill

Tal Segman - Regional VP Sales Eastern Europe

As RVP Sales for Avnet Silica, Tal holds the responsibility for Sales strategy, Business Development and Revenue growth for the emerging Eastern European region and the Middle East (mostly Israel). Tal, located in Israel, has vast experience in the Semiconductor market being with Avnet since 2001 in different Sales and Sales Management roles. Prior to his current role with Avnet Silica, Tal served as the Managing Director of Avnet Israel responsible for all Avnet activities in Israel including the Avnet chip design center known as Avnet ASIC.

Tal Segman

Laurence Dellicot - Sr. Director, EMEA Supply Chain

Laurence Dellicott, Senior Director at Avnet Silica, has responsibility for the EMEA Supply Chain. Laurence holds a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He joined Memec in the UK as a graduate in 1998, and has since held various roles in application support, business development, and regional and EMEA leadership positions.

Laurence Dellicot

Thomas Foj - Sr. Director Supplier Management & Vertical Markets EMEA

Thomas is Senior Director of Supplier Management and Vertical Markets EMEA at Avnet Silica. He is a specialist author for Talent Management, Semiconductor Trends and Long-term Supply Solutions in the Automotive industry. Prior to Avnet Silica, Thomas worked for Atmel, CS CLEAN SYSTEMS, Texas Instruments and Infineon in several international leadership roles. He holds an MBA from Pfeiffer University and an international Engineering Diploma.

Thomas Foj

Lucio Fornuto - VP Technical Development & Demand Creation

As Vice President of Technical Development and Demand Creation for EMEA, Lucio leads Avnet Silica’s Demand Creation strategy and technical organization development. Lucio holds a master's degree in electronic engineering, as well as an executive master's in business strategy. He joined Avnet in 2007 as a Field Application Engineer and held various other roles throughout the years: From holding responsibilities in the EMEA Technical Marketing Organization, Supplier Business Management, Regional Sales Management, and Regional Technical Leadership.

Lucio Fornuto

Lisa Rees - Director of Marketing & Communications

Lisa is responsible for all aspects of marketing and communications at Avnet Silica, including supplier marketing, digital strategy, media, content and events. She joined Avnet Silica after ten years as Director of Marketing Communications at Avnet Abacus, and has held management roles at the Chamber of Commerce, Nexus PR and Covea Insurance. Lisa holds a joint honours degree in Economics and French and is a certified change manager.

Lisa Rees

An Rutten - HR Business Partner

An Rutten, HR Business partner, provides consultative leadership to Avnet Silica in order to drive business success through people development. An holds a degree in Human Resources and is certified in Change Management (ADKAR), Insights, Predictive Index and DDI. She joined Avnet in 2000 and provided HR support to Avnet Logistics, Premier Farnell, Avnet Silica, Avnet Abacus, EBV Elektronik, as well as the corporate functions in the Benelux region including a large number of big business projects such as the TS carve-out and project FIT.

An Rutten

Rico Dornieden - Sr. Manager of Business Controlling

As Business Controller for Avnet Silica, Rico focuses on the key financial drivers of the business and how they can be improved. Prior to becoming Avnet Silica Business Controller, he worked as Business Controller and Analyst for Avnet Abacus for over 8 Years. Previously, he spent five years in a similar role at Sun Microsystems. Rico holds a Master’s degree in business.

Ben Robinson - Sr. Director of Business Operations

In his current role, Ben leads Business Operations for Avnet Silica across Europe. Ben joined Avnet through the acquisition of Memec in 2005. Working initially in internal sales, he has spent more than 10 years in process improvement roles, firstly within Avnet Memec and Silica, and later in Enterprise Effectiveness where he led sales processes for EMEA. Ben re-joined Silica as part of the new Business Operations department in 2018. Prior to joining Avnet, he worked in a variety of project and management roles, principally in database marketing and the exhibitions industry.

Ben Robinson

Marie Finas - Legal Counsel EMEA

As legal counsel, Marie supports the Silica business with adept legal guidance, ensuring its operations align with the most appropriate and efficacious legal parameters. With solid experience in European distribution and industry, she joined Avnet in 2022. Marie holds master's degrees in Law and Management from HEC Paris, Business Law from Aix-en-Provence's Law University, and International Relations from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence.

Marie Finas - Legal Counsel EMEA - Avnet Silica