Presenter

Doug Norton is the chief marketing officer for Inspire Semiconductor, an Austin-based accelerated computing company leveraging the open standard RISC-V CPU ISA. He is a senior business development, sales, and marketing executive with over 35 years of experience in public and startup technology companies.

Doug began his career in product engineering at IBM and moved into the sales and marketing organization to expand IBM’s reach into new engineering/scientific markets. He went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Newisys, Nimbix, and other early-stage companies.

Doug is president of the Society of HPC Professionals and active in the RISC-V SIG-HPC marketing and events committees. He serves on the Venture Mentoring Service for the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) at The University of Texas and is a technology and business advisor to HealthClicks. Doug earned a BS in electrical engineering cum laude from Missouri University of Science and Technology.