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co-founding Alameda Capital, Norm was a founding Director
of LambdaFlex, a next generation optical modules company that
was acquired in November 2001. Prior to LambdaFlex, Norm was
Chief Strategy Officer, as well as Senior Vice President and
General Manager of two of the three divisions of ZiLOG, a
semiconductor turnaround and LBO. He also established and
led an in-house incubator at ZiLOG where he started three
new semiconductor businesses.
Prior to ZiLOG, Norm was Founder, President
and CEO of Avantos Performance Systems, a venture-backed pioneer
in management software (now part of Performance Solutions
Technology LLC, an integrated software and management consulting
firm).
Norm also spent ten years with Bain &
Company. As a Vice President of Bain, he had responsibility
for approximately half of the high technology management consulting
practice, where he helped leading semiconductor, materials,
systems and software companies develop and implement growth
strategies. He also worked as a project engineer and program
manager for a leading defense electronics company. He has
been an active corporate and angel investor.
Norm holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School and an M.S. and B.S. in EE from Stanford University.
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