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Dec. 18, 2013

Cheree L. McAlpine

General Counsel and Vice President of the Americas for Avnet Inc. Milpitas

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Cheree L. McAlpine said she came to California in a "cowardly act."

Raised in Georgia and Alabama, she'd been working on the East Coast for a while - but the temperatures were getting to her.

"Boston had an unbelievably cold winter that just was not suitable for a Southern girl," McAlpine said.

So west she went, in the middle of Silicon Valley's dot-com boom, eventually finding her way to her current post as general counsel an... (continued)

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