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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-097851"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVT"
cik: "0000008858"
company_name: "AVNET INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T16:04:29.394506+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avnet appoints Kenneth A. Jacobson as CFO effective September 6, 2022

## Summary
- Jacobson, age 44, previously Corporate Controller and served as interim CFO in 2017-2018.
- Base salary of $500,000 for FY2023; annual cash incentive target at 100% of base salary.
- FY2023 equity grant of $1,250,000 consisting of performance share units and RSUs vesting in 4 annual tranches.
- Eligible for Executive Severance Plan and Change of Control Agreement providing 2.99x multiple upon qualifying termination.
- No family relationships or reportable transactions with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-097851
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVT
- cik: 0000008858
- company_name: AVNET INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000110465922097851/0001104659-22-097851-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000110465922097851/tm2225127d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-097851.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kenneth A. Jacobson was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at AVNET INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On September 6, 2022, Avnet, Inc. announced that the Avnet Board of Directors appointed Kenneth A. Jacobson to serve as Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer), effective September 6, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000110465922097851/0001104659-22-097851-index.htm

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