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)
Dec. 18, 2013
Cheree L. McAlpine
General Counsel and Vice President of the Americas for Avnet Inc. Milpitas
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