Solectron Names David Everett Chief Sales and Account Manager

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Milpitas, Calif. -- Solectron Corp. has appointed David Everett as executive vice president, worldwide sales and account management.

Everett, who joined Solectron this week, is responsible for forging strong long-term customer relationships; growing revenues; developing major accounts; building high-performance sales teams; and creating a dynamic sales infrastructure. He is a corporate officer and reports to Mike Cannon, president and chief executive officer.

Everett most recently was senior vice president and general manager of the Platform Enabling Division of Phoenix Technologies, a publicly traded provider of device enabling and management software products for personal computers and other digital products. At Phoenix, where he spent seven years in two engagements starting in 1995, he built a sales team that generated more than 20 percent growth in PC sales and expanded market share to more than 90 percent. Prior to Phoenix, Everett was president and chief executive officer of Dynamic Pictures, a California-based start-up workstation graphics company acquired by 3-D Labs. Everett also served as executive vice president of sales and marketing for SyQuest Technology, and earlier he was senior vice president, sales and corporate marketing, at Wyse Technology. At Wyse, Everett developed a selling organization that achieved 85 percent market share in video display terminals.

His international experience includes establishing or revamping sales offices and teams in more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Everett holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Michigan State University and attended the MBA program at Wayne State University.

Solectron also announced that two company officers, Dan Perez, executive vice president, worldwide account management and marketing, and Sandy Ro, a senior vice president in Global Operations, have left the company.

Solectron Corp. provides a full range of global manufacturing and supply-chain management services to the world's premier high-tech electronics companies. For more information, visit www.solectron.com.