JOHN E. PAGET

John E. Paget serves leaders who invest in developing themselves, their executives, and their companies. He is an Executive Partner with SOLIDexecutive Inc, where he serves clients as a senior executive coach, consultative advisor, or Board member.

Paget has held a number of President and CEO roles of multibillion-dollar global organizations and been in senior executive positions since 1985. In his corporate career, he has led dozens of acquisitions, completed scores of turnarounds, and sold many entities. He has orchestrated several rollups and regularly led merger and acquisition integrations, large and small.  He draws on this experience to provide executive coaching to CEOs and senior executives. He also provides advisory services to Boards of Directors and heads of organizations from Fortune 100 corporations, VC and PE-backed companies, to non-profit entities.

An early adopter of executive coaching, Paget first hired an executive coach in 1989 and has continued to use coaches since. He’s coached high-potential executives in many of his organizations and twice hired a coach for his entire executive team. He believes that those who get good coaching become good coaches and that coaching powerfully speeds up the growth of executives, their teams, and everyone in the organization.

From 2007 to 2009, Paget was Global President of Avnet Technology Solutions Group, responsible for $7.5 billion in revenue across 39 countries, and led acquisition actions for over $4 billion. For three years before that, he was President and COO of Synnex Inc., with over $6 billion in revenue. 

As a senior executive with General Electric from 2000 to 2004, his roles included senior VP and General Manager of their Technology Financial Services, where he was responsible for over $4 billion in volume and 1,000 employees, and President and CEO of General Electric Access, a $3.4 billion global distributor.  For two years before that, he was their Executive VP, leading a $2.9 billion business unit.

From 1997 to 1998, Paget was President and CEO of CIC Systems, a $400 million turnaround which he sold to CompuCom. He led North American service for Compaq Computer from 1995 to 1997. From 1992 to 1995, he was a senior VP with Digital Equipment, where he headed the Americas Services organization, a $1.6 billion division with 7,500 employees.

Paget’s first turnaround was from 1989 to 1992, as President and COO of Intelogic Trace. From 1969 to 1989, he held leadership roles with Xerox, the last as a General Manager with profit and loss responsibility and 1,450 employees.

Paget earned a Bachelor of Administrative Sciences in 1975 from Pepperdine University, School of Business and Management.

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