Executive Leadership

Sean J. Kerins is president and chief executive officer of Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Previously, he served as Arrow's chief operating officer, with responsibility for sales, marketing and operations for the global components and global enterprise computing solutions businesses. During his tenure at Arrow, he has also served as president of Arrow’s global enterprise computing solutions business and president of the North America region within that business. He joined Arrow in 2007 as vice president of North America storage and networking for enterprise computing solutions.

Prior to Arrow, Kerins spent 10 years at EMC serving in sales, marketing and professional services roles around the world. Earlier in his career, he held progressively senior roles with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting and he served as an industrial engineer with General Motors.

Kerins holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Syracuse University and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Raj Agrawal is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Prior to joining Arrow, Agrawal had served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Western Union since 2014. During his tenure, he also intermittently held the positions of head of mergers and acquisition strategy as well as global operations. In addition to other various finance and business leadership roles at Western Union, Agrawal has held progressively senior roles with Deluxe Corp., General Mills, Inc., Chrysler Corp., and General Motors Corp.

Agrawal holds an MBA from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the GMI Engineering and Management Institute (now Kettering University). He currently serves on the board of Beazley PLC as a non-executive director and member of the audit and risk committee and remuneration committee.

Carine Jean-Claude is senior vice president and chief legal officer for Arrow Electronics, Inc., with responsibility for leading global legal matters including corporate governance, compliance, litigation, and business support at the operational level.

Jean-Claude previously served as chief compliance officer and vice president, legal affairs for Arrow Electronics since 2017. She joined Arrow in 2000 and served in roles of increasing legal and compliance responsibility. Prior to joining Arrow, Ms. Jean-Claude worked for the law firms of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, and Edwards & Angell in New York City.

Jean-Claude holds a juris doctorate from Boston University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in finance from New York University.

Chuck Kostalnick is senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for Arrow Electronics, Inc. His responsibilities include operational excellence in the global supply chain organization, including warehouse operations, transportation, programming, integration services and quality.

Kostalnick rejoined Arrow in 2016 as president of Arrow’s global sustainable technology solutions business. Prior to this role, he served as chief business officer and executive vice president for Sanmina Corporation, as well as a variety of leadership and sales positions at Avnet and Bell Micro. Before that, he served in sales leadership roles at Arrow from 2000 to 2005.

Kostalnick holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is currently on the Board of CU’s Leeds School of Business.

Kristin Russell serves as president of Arrow’s global enterprise computing solutions business providing data-center solutions, services and support to value-added resellers, managed services providers, system integrators and their customers.

Russell most recently served as president of Arrow’s global services business since 2016. Prior to joining Arrow, Russell spent two years as managing director for public and private sectors at Deloitte Consulting and, from 2011 to 2014, served as secretary of technology and chief information officer for the State of Colorado. Earlier in her career, she held progressively senior roles at Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Russell holds a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from the University of Colorado.

Kirk Schell is president of Arrow’s global components business, which provides sales, marketing, engineering and supply chain services to semiconductor and passive electromechanical component suppliers and their customers.

Prior to joining Arrow, Schell spent nearly 25 years at Dell Technologies, where he was most recently responsible for global online B2B sales. Previously, he led sales for Dell’s client solutions portfolio in the Asia-Pacific region and was the general manager of Dell’s displays group.

Schell holds a mechanical engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Shantnu Sharma is Arrow’s chief strategy and technology officer, where he leads strategic planning and all merger and acquisition activity.

Prior to joining Arrow, Sharma spent 10 years as the head of strategy, M&A, and business development at Advanced Micro Devices. Before that, he spent four years at McKinsey, where he helped found the consultancy’s cyber security practice. He is the holder of seven patents.

Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Biria Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in management from MIT.

Kim Brown Wilmsen, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Kim Brown Wilmsen is senior vice president and chief information officer of Arrow Electronics, Inc., responsible for managing the company’s global information technology systems and operations.

Wilmsen joined Arrow in 2017 as vice president of information technology – global infrastructure. She took on the role of vice president and CIO of global components in 2019, after which in 2022 she was named vice president and CIO of global application solutions for all of Arrow’s business groups. Prior to joining Arrow, Wilmsen was senior vice president and CIO for the Americas at Arcadis, Inc., and previously held roles of increasing responsibility at Bill Barrett Corporation, IHS, Oracle, and Informix.

Wilmsen holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri.

Gretchen Zech is senior vice president, chief governance, sustainability, and human resources officer for Arrow Electronics, Inc. A member of Arrow's executive committee, she leads the company's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy, HR strategy, operations, technologies, and business partnerships around the world. She also oversees the company’s legal, compliance, and real estate functions.

Zech joined Arrow in 2011 from Dex One, having served as their senior vice president and chief human resources officer since 2006. Before joining Dex, she was the HR group vice president at Gartner, responsible for several of the organization's global businesses and corporate groups. Her previous roles include HR leadership positions with Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea, Bloomingdale's, Best Buy, and Johnson Controls.

A Society for Human Resource Management senior certified professional (SHRM-SCP), having also served on the SHRM board of directors, Zech holds a bachelor's degree in human resource management from The University of Michigan.