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Mr. Clarkson was senior vice president of Boeing and president of Boeing Enterprises.
At Boeing, Mr. Clarkson served as senior vice president of planning and international development, with responsibility for the company's overall global growth strategies. He played a key role in introducing a new strategic-planning process and represented the company on an international level, leading The New York Times to describe him in December 1996 as "the closest thing (Boeing) has to a corporate secretary of state."
He joined Boeing in January 1988 as Commercial Airplane's senior vice president - Government and International Affairs, after a 20-year career with Pratt & Whitney, where he became the youngest president of Pratt's commercial jet-engine division.
Mr. Clarkson is the former chair of the U.S. Pacific Basin Economic Council and the National Center for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and currently serves as vice chairman of The National Bureau of Asian Research. He is a director of several other international and industry organizations, and is past president of both the Washington State China Relations Council and the Japan-America Society of Washington, and a past vice president of the Wings Club. Mr. Clarkson is also former chair of the Seattle opera and the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and is on the board of the Corporate Council for the Arts. In addition, he is a former overseer of the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
Mr. Clarkson holds a bachelor's degree from DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Florida. He is a member of the Florida Bar Association and serves as a trustee of DePauw University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He is a recipient of DePauw's highest honor, the Old Gold Goblet, an annual award for "eminence in life's work and service to the alma mater."
As a member of Avnet's Board of Directors, Mr. Clarkson chairs the Finance Committee , and serves on the Corporate Governance Committee. | 