Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, AVNET INC
Search every verified Leng-Jin Chan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Leng-jin Chan, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Avnet, discussed his expanded responsibilities and leadership approach in a September 2024 interview with HMG Strategy. Chan said he took on oversight of the company's digital organization, bringing it under IT to drive digital products and initiatives aligned with business pillars and strategic initiatives. He also stated he assumed P&L responsibility for Avnet's digital systems integrator business, reshaping it to provide extended services to customers and partners. Chan described adopting a distributed delivery model where IT builds and maintains foundational platforms while the digital team focuses on innovation, inviting business units to build additional capabilities on a secure, compliant platform. Chan emphasized that he does not want to create a separate IT strategy, but rather to serve as a strategy enabler for the business. He noted that Avnet has been applying AI and machine learning for six to seven years, and that generative AI has made it possible for customers to generate design recommendations based on criteria such as availability, physical size, and price point. Chan also highlighted the importance of global acumen for leaders, stating that being a leader without it is "almost impossible to navigate, especially in the technology industry."
At the CIO100 Symposium, Avnet CIO Max Chan talked with host Lucas Mearian about how AI underpins sales enablement, engineering design, inventory forecasting, and global supply chain orchestration at Avnet. He also discussed ROI through business outcomes, modernizing legacy systems with greenfield architectures, governance challenges, workforce upskilling, and partnerships that build resilience and customer value across industries worldwide. / ljchan #CIOLeadershipLive Interested in being on a CIO Leadership Live episode? Contact Ellen Fanning by email ([email protected]) Fol…
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For more information, please Visit https://hmgstrategy.com/ Hunter Muller talks with Max Chan about leadership, AI, and the Enterprise. HMG Strategy is the world's leading digital platform for connecting business technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 400,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders. HMG Strategy’s digital platform and global media model generates 1 million…
Watch and listen in on Max Chan, CIO of Avnet, as he explains his philosophies about just getting stuff done. At the end of the day the end result is the main thing that matters. Its not about the actions themselves, but how you delivered to the business. Check out our guest Max Chan here: / ljchan Our Host Dan Roberts: / dan-roberts-21b9357 The Tech Whisperers Podcast: https://linktr.ee/techwhisperers
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