Charles Avnet (1888–1979) was an American businessman who founded electronics parts distributor Avnet.
Biography
Avnet was born to a Jewish family in 1888 in Russia.[1][2][3]
In 1921,[4] Avnet began buying surplus ham radio parts and selling them to the public on Radio Row in the lower Manhattan[1] capitalizing on the end of the World War I era ban on the trade of radio parts in 1918.[2]