---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000008858-24-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVT"
cik: "0000008858"
company_name: "AVNET INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:55:39.078131+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avnet elects Virginia Henkels and Helmut Gassel to board; both join Audit Committee

## Summary
- Henkels, former CFO of Swift Transportation and Honeywell exec, brings finance and accounting expertise.
- Gassel, former Infineon Management Board member and CMO, adds deep semiconductor industry knowledge.
- Both directors effective immediately; compensation aligned with standard non-employee director plan.
- Indemnification agreements to be entered in same form as previously filed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000008858-24-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVT
- cik: 0000008858
- company_name: AVNET INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000000885824000033/0000008858-24-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000000885824000033/avt-20240815x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008858-24-000033
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008858-24-000033.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008858-24-000033.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Virginia L. Henkels was elected as Director at AVNET INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective on August 15, 2024, the Board of Directors of Avnet, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Virginia L. Henkels and Helmut Gassel to serve as directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000000885824000033/0000008858-24-000033-index.htm
- Executive change
  Helmut Gassel was elected as Director at AVNET INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective on August 15, 2024, the Board of Directors of Avnet, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Virginia L. Henkels and Helmut Gassel to serve as directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000000885824000033/0000008858-24-000033-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.