Santa Ana’s Ingram Micro Inc., the world’s biggest distributor of technology products, software and consumer electronics, promoted one of its own as finance chief.
Lisa Locklear, 48, is set to be Ingram’s chief financial officer for North America.
She joins the ranks of only a handful of female senior executives in Orange County.
Ingram Micro is the county’s biggest company by sales. It’s expected to see some $35 billion in revenue this year and had a recent market value of about $2 billion.
Locklear is set to head Ingram Micro’s finance team and support its business operations, planning and strategy. She will report to North America President Keith Bradley.
She had been acting CFO since September, when Ross Crane stepped down to take a post at Belkin International Inc.
Ingram Micro’s worldwide CFO is Bill Humes, who is also based in Santa Ana.
Locklear joined Ingram in 2003 as vice president of finance.
Before that, she held finance positions at Walt Disney Co., Avery Dennison Corp. and PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.
Her career track led her to stints in Europe that totaled eight years, the company said.
The upper ranks of Ingram’s executive team are a multicultural bunch.
Executives hail from Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and Hong Kong.
It also has women in big roles.
Women executives head Ingram’s legal team and its information technology division in Santa Ana.
Locklear is a certified public accountant and received her bachelor of science from the University of California, Davis, and her master of business administration from the University of California, Irvine.
She is a director at Orange County United Way and the UC Irvine Dean’s Leadership Circle at the Paul Merage School of Business.
She lives in Irvine with her husband and two sons.
