Arrow Electronics, Carbon Name New Law Department Leaders

Arrow Electronics Inc., a distributor of electronic components and computer products, promoted Carine Jean-Claude to be interim chief legal officer.

Jean-Claude, who had been chief compliance officer and vice president of legal affairs for Centennial, Colo.-based Arrow, succeeds Lily Yan Hughes.

Disclosure of the promotion in a Dec. 15 securities filing comes after Bloomberg News reported last month that the U.S. government was probing an Asian subsidiary of Arrow over alleged ties to the Chinese military.

On Nov. 30, Arrow retained government relations firm Whitaker Strategies to lobby on “issues relating to export control,” according to U.S. Senate filings ...