About Author

Anatoli Lukkarinen is the Business Development Manager for Avnet Integrated Embedded Innovation Unit in the Americas. In this role, he works across the company to help customers design, build and bring high-quality Embedded solutions and products to market. This includes providing guidance to chief technical officers, product managers and solution engineers of OEM companies as well as working closely together with Avnet Integrated hardware engineering experts and technology partners. He reports to Brian Toomey, Director, Embedded Innovation Unit.

Anatoli’s passions are customer experience, technology, and quality. He understands the complexity and challenges that OEM companies face when they are designing and implementing computing hardware as part of their product and solution. By leveraging Avnet Integrated hardware engineering capabilities and technology partners Anatoli is helping customers to bring high-quality products faster to the market and securing their long-term return on investment.

Anatoli has 14 years of experience and industry knowledge of designing and implementing computing hardware to industrial and embedded applications. He joined Avnet in 2016 as Business Development Manager for Avnet Integrated in Nordics. Before that, he had spent 10 years at CEF (embedded PC manufacturer) developing a product portfolio and directing sales and marketing activities.

Anatoli was raised in the cold and frozen Finland and he is now defrosting himself in hot Phoenix, Arizona