Black Box operates as a publicly traded global provider of digital infrastructure solutions, headquartered in Plano, Texas. Founded in 1976 as Expandor, Inc. by Eugene Yost and Dick Raub in Lawrence, Pennsylvania, the company started with a catalog of nine products across six pages. Under CEO Sanjeev Verma, it has evolved over nearly five decades into an enterprise serving businesses worldwide with network and system integration, managed services, and technology products.
The company's core business centers on comprehensive network integration, system integration, and managed IT services. Its technical domains span networking and communications products, digital infrastructure, IT solutions, and communications hardware. Black Box positions itself as addressing the complexity enterprises face in building, managing, and optimizing their technology infrastructure, with operations spanning multiple geographies including its founding location in Pennsylvania and current headquarters in Texas.
Black Box maintains its publicly traded status while serving enterprise clients across information technology, networking and communications, and systems integration verticals. The company frames its approach as service-oriented, focusing on helping organizations navigate what it describes as an increasingly complex technological landscape through its suite of managed services and integration capabilities.