---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-190932"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVT"
cik: "0000008858"
company_name: "AVNET INC"
filed_at: "2022-07-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T17:55:02.304296+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avnet CFO Thomas Liguori to step down; Kenneth Jacobson named successor effective Sept 6

## Summary
- Thomas Liguori will transition from CFO on Sept 6, 2022, and serve as senior advisor through March 2023.
- Kenneth Jacobson, Avnet's corporate controller since Dec 2016, becomes CFO on Sept 6, 2022.
- Jacobson joined Avnet in 2013 and previously served as interim CFO for six months in 2017-2018.
- Liguori's retirement follows his 2017 letter agreement; succession is part of Avnet's planning.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-190932
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVT
- cik: 0000008858
- company_name: AVNET INC
- filed_at: 2022-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000119312522190932/0001193125-22-190932-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000119312522190932/d344402d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-190932
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-190932.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-190932.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Thomas Liguori changed role as Chief Financial Officer at AVNET INC.
  - Action: will transition from
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Thomas Liguori, who has served as CFO since January 2018, will transition from the CFO role on September 6, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000119312522190932/0001193125-22-190932-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kenneth Jacobson was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at AVNET INC.
  - Action: will become
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Kenneth Jacobson will become Avnet’s new CFO on September 6, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8858/000119312522190932/0001193125-22-190932-index.htm

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