Top Arrow Electronics Corporate Marketing Executive Receives CMO Club Leadership Award

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The CMO Club will present Rich Kylberg, vice president of corporate marketing and communications at Arrow Electronics, Inc. ARW, with the CMO Leadership Award at its annual awards event later today. The CMO Awards celebrate the marketing industry's brightest leaders, and winners are selected by a group of senior marketing executive peers.

Kylberg has headed up Arrow's corporate marketing and communications since 2010. He was the key architect of Arrow's revamped corporate brand, the world of Five Years Out—the tangible future—a community of builders, designers, engineers and imaginers who navigate the path between possibility and practicality.

"Rich helped articulate Arrow's core values into a compelling brand message that resonates with our customers, suppliers and internal employees," said Michael J. Long, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Arrow. "Rich's creativity is contagious and inspiring, and he is well deserving of this distinction from his peers."

A panel made up of CMO Club chapter presidents and key CMO Club members selected four winners for the following 10 categories: leadership, content engagement, creativity and storytelling, customer experience, growth, marketing innovation, officers, rising star, social responsibility and president's circle.

Dell, Harley Davidson, The Home Depot, JP Morgan Chase and the NFL are among the other organizations with marketing executives receiving 2015 CMO Club awards. For more information on the CMO awards program and category winners, please visit www.thecmoawards.com.

About Arrow Electronics

Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 460 locations in 56 countries.

About The CMO Club

The CMO Club is a membership organization exclusively for senior marketing executives who want to meet, share and learn from each other. Fueled by inspiring local dinners, regional events, CMO Innovation Summits, virtual Roundtables and the Digital "Members-Only" Clubhouse, marketers provide and receive valuable insights from each other, in a "nonvendorselling" environment. Working with the over 800 club members and best-in-class strategic partners, The CMO Club also addresses the top CMO challenges each month with thoughtfully curated content. Visit us at www.thecmoclub.com.

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