Ron Stordahl

Dr. Ronald Stordahl is the founder and CEO of Digi-Key, a global leader and pioneer in electronic  component distributor, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. With annual sales of  over $1.56 billion and 3,200 employees, Digi-Key leads the industry in product selection, service  and delivery by offering more than three million products from over 650 quality name-brand  manufacturers at www.digikey.com. 

It was Dr. Ronald A. Stordahl’s interest in ham radio that provided the springboard for what has  become Digi-Key Corporation today. While in college, he assembled and began selling a digital  electronic keyer kit for sending radiotelegraph code for ham radio operators. It was called the  Digi-Key. After obtaining his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota,  Stordahl returned to his hometown of Thief River Falls where he began selling and distributing  electronic components, officially founding Digi-Key in 1972.  

Today, Digi-Key remains committed to its core values of superior customer service, product  availability and delivery, offering nearly 800,000 in-stock components available for immediate  shipment anywhere in the world. Today, Digi-Key is the only electronic component distributor  able to effectively delivery a high-mix, low volume production business model, supporting all  the needs of the design engineer from Prototype to Production®.