Jim Beneke

advisory board member

Jim Beneke has over 35 years experience in technology management, business and strategy development, technical marketing, research and development, and design engineering. For the past 12 years, he has held executive positions as Vice President of Products and Emerging Technology and Vice President of Global Technical Marketing at Avnet, where he successfully spearheaded numerous initiatives to grow Avnet’s demand creation revenue and profitability. Under his direction, Avnet has launched a portfolio of industry leading design solutions and training programs supporting top technology companies such as Xilinx, NXP, Broadcom, Microsoft, AT&T, Telus, Mathworks, STMicroelectronics, and Arm. Joining Avnet in 1994, Mr. Beneke served in a variety of field and staff positions supporting technical sales and marketing. Prior to this, Mr. Beneke held design engineering and engineering management positions for 10 years at Raytheon/E-Systems and General Electric. Mr. Beneke holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University.