Clearwater tech giant CEO announces retirement

Rich Hume, who led Clearwater tech giant Tech Data through an acquisition and a merger, and then led the combined business, now TD Synnex, through the pandemic, is retiring. 

Hume joined the company in 2016 as COO and assumed the CEO role in 2018. The acquisition of Avnet Technology Solutions occurred in 2017 and the merger with California-based Synnex took place in 2021.

A distributor of tech products that at one point counted Apple, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft as clients, TD Synnex is one of the largest publicly traded firms in the region, with $57.55 billion a year in revenue. It has some 22,000 employees and works with 1,500 technology vendors.