Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 11, 2003

Joel Girsky – Jaco Electronics Inc (jaco)

Joel H. Girsky is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Jaco Electronics, Inc., a company he founded in 1961. Through Mr. Girsky's skilled management and in-depth knowledge of the electronics industry, Jaco has grown from a small company operating out of a Brooklyn garage to a national corporation and one of the top-25 electronic distributors in the world. Mr. Girsky is renowned in the industry for his articulate, frank and honest approach to problems. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of Jaco

Electronics and then give us a picture of what you've been doing

lately at the company?

Mr. Girsky: I started this company 42 years