Doug Norton

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CMO, Inspire Semiconductor | President Society of HPC Professionals @ Inspire Semiconductor, Inc.
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Austin, Texas, United States, United States
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About Doug Norton

Accomplished senior enterprise business development, sales, marketing, and alliance leader in public and startup enterprise technology companies. A hands-on technology leader and entrepreneur / "Connectpreneur" with a rare ability to find the win/win with both customers and partner companies, productize it, empower teams, and build and drive the mutual go to market strategy. He began his career at IBM in product development then moved to the sales & marketing organization. He went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Newisys, Nimbix, and InspireSemi. Recognized throughout career for bringing a high level of insight, leadership, and results to business situations with a “make it happen, can-do” approach to transform and scale organizations. Areas of expertise include: - Go-to-Market strategy & execution- Business Development & Planning- Thought leadership & technology evangelism- Strategic alliance creation & development- Solution selling and entering new markets- Transforming & scaling organizations- Product marketing and management- IT enterprise software- IT server & storage infrastructure- Engineering/scientific and HPC (High Performance Computing)- EDA and CAD/CAM software- AI / ML (Machine Learning)- Automotive & Aerospace- Life Sciences and Genomics Computing- Federal Government business development- Cloud / Edge / IoT Computing

Doug Norton's Current Company Details
Inspire Semiconductor, Inc.

Inspire Semiconductor, Inc.

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CMO, Inspire Semiconductor | President Society of HPC Professionals
Doug Norton Work Experience Details
  • Inspire Semiconductor, Inc.
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Inspire Semiconductor, Inc. May 2023 - Present
    Austin, Tx, Us
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  • Inspire Semiconductor, Inc.
    Vice President Of Business Development
    Inspire Semiconductor, Inc. Jul 2020 - May 2023
    Austin, Tx, Us
    Lead global partnerships and business development for InspireSemi, an Austin-based chip design company that has built a technology foundation that delivers revolutionary performance, energy efficiency, versatility, and a thriving open software ecosystem. This enables us to address multiple diversified markets of High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI, Graph Analytics, and blockchain. It has a unique and strongly differentiated accelerated computing solution compared to existing approaches for these markets. This gives innovators in compute-intensive industries the performance, efficiency, agility, affordability, and time to market advantages they need to drive exceptional outcomes.
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  • Healthclicks
    Strategic Advisor
    Healthclicks Jul 2019 - Present
    Simplifying Healthcare Facility Compliance with a Unified Hub. HealthClicks is a software company with a fully integrated Healthcare Compliance and Risk Management Hub. This modern mobile & data-driven, real-time SaaS hub enables healthy facilities, patients, staff and communities.
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  • Dilogr
    Advisor
    Dilogr May 2017 - Present
    Austin, Tx, Us
    Business and technology advisor for DilogR, a company with a software platform that is used by some of the biggest companies in the world for marketing, training, and recruiting. The DilogR platform works with any device, any idea, any concept, any campaign and any interactive content. Create mobile-friendly experiences that convert to customers using quizzes, surveys, polls, assessments, slides, interactive images, and videos (including patented video branching algorithms).
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  • Texghs Innovation Consortium
    Founding Team
    Texghs Innovation Consortium Jun 2020 - Present
    Austin, Us
    The Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) is a consortium organized by The University of Texas at Austin between academia, public sector, and private sector partners that will coordinate efforts to support companies working towards pandemic preparedness and response.
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  • Viviota
    Vice President Of Business Development
    Viviota Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
    Austin, Tx, Us
    Business Development and Sales leader, working with Fortune 500 customers and industry partners. Major focus on the automotive and aerospace industries, with customers including GM, Honda, FCA, Daimler, Tesla, Lucid Motors, PACCAR, NASA,. Strengthened partnerships with National Instruments (NI) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and added new partners Arrow Electronics, Ansys, Altair, and Microsoft. Viviota's TTI software platform delivers >10x acceleration of engineering analysis in the development of advanced vehicles and devices. The exponential explosion of IoT sensors and data is becoming the next industrial revolution. Vivota’s powerful software and know-how dramatically simplifies this data management complexity and fully integrates into existing design, prototyping, and test environments—releasing the full potential of sensor data—speeding time-to-insight and innovation for competitive advantage.
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  • Nimbix
    Director, Global Hpc & Ai/Ml Alliances And Channel Development
    Nimbix Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
    Richardson, Tx, Us
    Led the HPC and AI/Machine Learning partnerships for the industry's first and best purpose-built HPC & AI cloud platform. Includes working with both channel and technology alliance partners to build the HPC & AI business for Nimbix. Nimbix is the industry's first and best purpose-built HPC & AI cloud and is the world's leading cloud platform for HPC simulation and accelerated model training for Machine and Deep Learning. Nimbix offers >1,000 engineering/scientific applications ready to run at scale via a point-and-click interface.
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  • Texas Multicore Technologies
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Texas Multicore Technologies May 2012 - Aug 2017
    Led global marketing, business development and strategic technology partnerships. TMT provides auto-parallelizing computer programming tools and services to modernize software to run on multicore computing platforms with optimal performance and portability. TMT does the hard, low-level work of building low-level platform optimizations into SequenceL so the broad base of software developers, engineers, and scientists don’t have to.
  • Virtana (Formerly Virtual Instruments)
    Vice President, Sales, Alliances & Strategic Accounts
    Virtana (Formerly Virtual Instruments) Sep 2008 - Apr 2012
    Member of founding executive team to help launch and build this private equity carve-out company from the start. Helped create brand, messaging, direct + channel sales strategy, and launch company at VMworld 2008. Closed VMware TAP Select partnership, OEM deals with Dell and HDS, and built numerous channel partnerships in both the US and Europe. Grew revenue from 0 to $82M in first 9 months and contributed to the doubling of revenue every year in large Financial, Manufacturing, and Federal Government accounts.
  • Optimal Electronics Corporation
    Vice President, Sales & Marketing
    Optimal Electronics Corporation Jun 2006 - Sep 2008
    Round Rock, Us
    Recruited by CEO as part of new executive team to drive worldwide sales, marketing, and alliance partnerships for this electronic MES (Manufacturing Optimization & Execution System) software company. Worked closely with CEO, COO, CTO to drive business strategy. Restructured and re-priced products, restructured existing channel partner agreements, and hired new sales and support firms in key geographies, including Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. Created alliance partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft, Mentor Graphics, Universal Instruments, Fuji, Juki, Panasonic, Siemens, etc. Authored and launched new web site, marketing collateral, and managed press engagements. Secured multiple industry awards and grew revenue and customer base including Rockwell Automation, Solectron, Virtex, and Continental Automotive.
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  • Newisys - A Division Of Sanmina Corporation
    Director Of Strategic Alliances & Oem Business Development
    Newisys - A Division Of Sanmina Corporation Mar 2003 - Jun 2006
    Member of executive business team, promoted from manager to director. Led product marketing, strategic alliances and business development with key OEM customers for this innovative server and storage design (ODM) company. Managed key technology partners including AMD, Intel, Microsoft, Novel/SUSE, Oracle, and IBM DB2. Drove large OEM sales revenue with Tier-1 computer companies, including Sun, HP, IBM, Cray, SGI, Unisys, Fujitsu-Siemens. Recognized by Bill Gates at annual Microsoft conference as member of team that set new Internet2 Land Speed Record. Acquired in July 2003 by Sanmina.
  • Agea
    Vice President Of Strategic Accounts
    Agea 2001 - 2002
    Recruited by CEO to direct the development and management of strategic accounts for this software company that provided real time communication solutions for the enterprise. Initiated and managed 4 major Sun Microsystems (major investor) initiatives spanning marketing, sales, and R&D. Negotiated partnerships with Metrowerks (OEM), BEA, Motorola, Nokia, Sprint, and TCS. Acquired in 2002.
  • Liaison Technologies
    Regional Sales Director
    Liaison Technologies 2000 - 2001
    Alpharetta, Ga, Us
    Recruited by former VP at SVR to drive sales in 20 state region for B2B content management software. Created business forecasting processes and developed and implemented value based selling methods across worldwide sales organization. Secured major wins at Dell, Comark, and LastMinuteTravel.com.
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  • Coware
    Global Account Manager
    Coware 1998 - 2000
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Recruited by former executives at Cadence, Cascade, and SVR as member of initial CoWare sales team for revolutionary new System On Chip (SOC) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. Helped hone messaging, did early business development and sales to key accounts such as Motorola, Freescale, and Intel. Top producer in 1999. Acquired by Synopsys.
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  • Cascade Design Automation
    District Sales Manager
    Cascade Design Automation 1996 - 1998
    Sold IC physical design EDA software, libraries, and services in 16 states in the Central US (ranked #1 salesman for FY98). Worked with the marketing team on new image, strategies, partnerships, and pricing models. Contributions led to acquisition by Duet Technologies in 1998.
  • Silicon Valley Research
    Central Region Sales Manager
    Silicon Valley Research 1994 - 1996
    Recruited by Chairman of Board as marketing manager for the original Silvar-Lisco turnaround team. Promoted and relocated to Austin 4 months later by executive team to restart IC physical design EDA software sales in 20 state central US region. Contributions directly enabled successful secondary public offering in February 1996 (grew from $0.65 to $12.00 per share).
  • Cadence Design Systems
    Sr. Marketing Manager
    Cadence Design Systems 1991 - 1994
    San Jose, California, Us
    Selected by CEO to develop and lead the marketing team responsible for Cadence's hardware platform strategy since it had such a profound impact on sales, costs, and software quality. Prior to that, led product marketing for the next generation 4.3 EDA software suite.
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  • Ibm Corp
    Multiple
    Ibm Corp 1985 - 1991
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Joined IBM as first job after college as a product development engineer, where I designed both digital and analog circuit boards. Was redeployed to the US Marketing and Sales organization as a Systems Engineer, where I planned, installed, and supported Unix-based computer systems at several aerospace companies in Southern California. Was promoted several times, ultimately to Area Marketing Specialist, where I led marketing of IBM RS/6000 Unix systems for Engineering/Scientific, CASE and EDA markets in Southern California area.
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Doug Norton Skills

Enterprise Software Business Alliances Go To Market Strategy Product Marketing Solution Selling Strategic Partnerships Start Ups Product Management Business Development Sales Cloud Computing Storage Saas Leadership Marketing Strategy Data Center Professional Services Product Development Sales Enablement Marketing Sales Management Cross Functional Team Leadership Storage Area Networks Virtualization Value Based Selling Channel Partners Partner Management Storage Virtualization Paas Crm New Business Development Business Selling Mentoring Target Marketing Enterprise Storage Storage Solutions Pre Sales Demand Generation Parallel Programming Parallel Computing Lead Generation Salesforce.com High Performance Computing Managed Services Software Industry Marketing Automation Digital Marketing Federal Government

Doug Norton Education Details

  • Missouri University Of Science And Technology
    Missouri University Of Science And Technology
    Cum Laude

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