Peter LeSaffre

Peter LeSaffre is the Founder and CEO of Fusion Worldwide. With over 35 years of experience, Peter is one of the original pioneers and leaders of the independent distribution industry for electronic components. Working as a sales rep for a franchised distributor in the 1970s, Peter saw a huge need going unfilled. In response, he founded RW Electronics (Real World) in 1982, supporting the early computer, defense, and telecommunication companies with allocated, obsolete, and line-down shortage products. RW Electronics grew into a $180 million broad line distributor of electronic components which Peter sold in 1999. He founded Fusion Worldwide in 2001 because he felt he could build a better, more global, more responsive company. He has built Fusion Worldwide into a truly global company and one of the world’s largest, most innovative, and most respected independent distributors of electronic components. Peter continues to be very involved in the day-to-day operation of Fusion actively setting strategic direction and steering the company.