LEGACY LEADERSHIP: Founded as Micro D, Inc. in 1979 by Geza Czige and Lorraine Mecca. Ingram Industries, a Nashville-based conglomerate, acquired control in 1989 and renamed the company. Paul Bay succeeded longtime chief executive Alain Monié in 2022.
HQ: Irvine, moved from Santa Ana
OC SIGNIFICANCE: Zoomed to billions of dollars in annual sales by riding the technology boom to deliver products made by tech giants. Often reported huge revenue with razor-thin margins. Its industry—distribution—has gone out of favor as tech companies use the cloud to deliver new products to their customers. The Irvine-based company is betting that its AI-powered Xvantage platform will improve the industry’s traditional sales model by shedding time-consuming tasks and boosting sales and margins.
DEFINING MOMENT: Ingram was taken private in 2016 by China’s HNA Group for $6B. Tom Gores’ Platinum Equity bought Ingram Micro in 2021 in a $7.2B deal. Ingram Micro went public a second time in 2024.
BY THE NUMBERS: Ingram Micro is Orange County’s largest company by revenue – $52.6B in net sales in 2025. It is the third largest tech company headquartered in Orange County by market cap, after printed circuit board maker TTM Technologies and chip colossus Skyworks Solutions Inc. Ingram Micro’s shares were up almost 47% over the last year as of June 5, with a market cap of $6.8B. Its sales team serves about 200 countries while it boasts more than 22,000 associates.
QUOTABLE: “I think we have our mojo as it relates to revenue.” —CEO Paul Bay
FUN FACT: Husband-and-wife team Czige and Mecca, both teachers, established Micro D, Inc. to bring their academic approach to logistics to the rapidly evolving manufacturing and distribution space. They went public a few years later after rapid expansion.
