Outstanding Alumni - 2008
Scott Lindberg
Bemidji State University Graduate 1975
Scott Lindberg has spent 25 years in the electronic semiconductor industry, starting in Minneapolis and then transferring to the San Francisco Bay area in 1984, where he opened the San Jose, California based distribution branch of Avnet, Inc. He helped that business grow from a startup to $20 million in four years. In 1989, he moved to Hitachi, where he ran the company's computer memory manufacturing operation and saw it grow from a $25 million business to over $500 million. Moving into sales, he then helped Hitachi implement a worldwide distribution strategy, which included a partnership with Avnet. This allowed Hitachi to become Avnet's first Asian supplier. During his career at Hitatchi, he traveled to Asia over 50 times. He later helped oversee a merger between Hitachi and Mitsubishi, which at the time were the world's two largest semiconductor manufacturers. Mr. Lindberg retired from Hitatchi as the Vice President of Sales after 15 years with the company. He currently holds licenses as a real estate broker and insurance broker and works for Northstar Insurance, a brokerage firm serving private clients in California. Mr. Lindberg has been actively involved with education, fundraising for public schools and assisting high school athletics through AAU basketball. Mr. Lindberg and his wife, Ellen, have two biological children, Zachary and Britt, and one son, Cody, whom they adopted at age five through the county of Sacramento foster care system. The Lindberg's make their home in Mill Valley, California.