The president and operations chief of Santa Ana’s Ingram Micro Inc., the top distributor of technology products, software and consumer electronics, is set to leave the company in August.
Alain Monie is stepping down as Ingram’s president and chief operating officer to accept the top post at “a multi-national industrial company based in Asia,” Ingram Micro said in a statement on Tuesday. It didn’t name the company.
Ingram Chief Executive Greg Spierkel said that no one is set to replace Monie and that his “responsibilities will be absorbed by the current organization.”
The company’s four regional presidents and top logistics executive now will report directly to Spierkel, while other executives will be given Monie’s other former duties, he said.
Monie joined Ingram Micro as executive vice president in January 2003 and was appointed president of the Asia-Pacific region a year later.
Monie helped with the integration of Australia’s Tech Pacific Ltd., which Ingram bought in 2004 for $530 million.
He was promoted to president and chief operating officer of the corporation in 2007.
“As president of our Asia-Pacific business, he played a critical role in the acquisition of Tech Pacific, which doubled the region’s size and transformed it from a break-even business in early 2004 to one of the company’s more profitable regions today,” Spierkel said. “Since his promotion to corporate chief operating officer, he has been a driving force behind operational improvements that will benefit our company for many years to come.”
Before Ingram Micro, Monie was president of the Latin American division of Honeywell International Inc. and led the Asia-Pacific operations of Allied Signal Inc.
Ingram Micro sees yearly sales of about $30 billion and had a recent market value of roughly $3 billion.
