Doug Norton is the President of the Society of HPC Professionals (SHPCP) and Chief Marketing Officer at Inspire Semiconductor. The SHPCP is a non-profit, vendor-neutral organization whose purpose is to educate and connect the HPC user community, industry, and academia with state-of-the-art technology and best practices. InspireSemi is an Austin-based company delivering a breakthrough next-generation accelerated computing solution for HPC, AI, and graph analytics applications. Doug began his career in product development at IBM and moved into the sales & marketing organization to expand IBM’s reach into new engineering/scientific markets. He then went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Newisys, Nimbix, and other early-stage companies. Doug is a contributor to the RISC-V SIG-HPC as well as the RISC-V 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. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering cum laude from Missouri University of Science & Technology.