Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 27, 1999
A. EUGENE SAPP, JR. is Chairman, President and CEO of SCI Systems, Inc.
He was formerly with Bell Telephone Laboratories and Texas Instruments
prior to joining SCI Systems, Inc. He has been with SCI Systems, Inc.
since shortly after its formation. He held a variety of technical and
managerial positions prior to being named the company's President and
Chief Operating Officer in 1981. On July 1, 1999 Mr. Sapp was elevated
to Chief Executive Officer, and on July 1, 2000 he assumed the position
of Chairman. Since 1981 the company's revenues have grown from $59
million to a current run-rate approaching $10 billion annually. SCI
Systems, Inc. was recently ranked by Fortune as one of the top 10 most
admired electronics companies in America. The company's 37 plants
located in 17 countries design, manufacture, distribute, and service
electronic products for the computer, aerospace, defense,
telecommunications, medical, industrial, aerospace and defense markets. Profile
to set the stage?
Mr. Sapp: SCI was formed in Huntsville, Alabama in 1961 as an aerospace
company. It was an outgrowth
