Mark Norton

Experience

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  Adepteq Ltd

  Jan 1993 - Jan 2004

  HPC Business Manager

  Launched the HPC (High Performance Computing) division and successfully delivered some of the world’s largest server and storage farms and GRID Computing projects of the time.

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  TD SYNNEX North America

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2008

  Northern Europe – Divisional Sales Head

  Ran the Industrial (OEM) Server and Storage and the Enterprise Mobility Divisions for Northern Europe, one a business turn-around and the other a start-up division.

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  宏碁

  Sept 2009 - Jan 2015

  Sr. EMEA Corporate Business Manager

  Part of the senior management team assigned with building Acer’s commercial business operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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  SureLanding Group

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

  Executive Vice President

  Sales and business development consultancy offering sales and business development resources and consulting skills to technology companies looking for growth in EMEA. Predominantly focused in the FinTech space.

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  Adaptive Computing

  Aug 2016 - Jan 2018

  Sales Director EMEA & CIS

  Responsible for Sales and Operations in the EMEA & CIS regions.Workload and resource orchestration platform that automates the scheduling, managing, monitoring, and reporting of cloud and datacenter HPC workloads on massive scale.

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jun 2018 - now

  Go-to-market strategy lead, advising and supporting our Global Financial Services customers on their High Performance Computing (HPC) cloud migration journey, to build risk management, financial modelling and AI/ML platforms in the cloud. Helping them scale EC2 compute capacity at a massive scale at the optimal price/performance. Defined and executed the strategy to grow the Amazon EC2 Spot business in core workloads, i.e., containers, CI/CD, Big Data (EMR) and HPC, from start-ups to the largest AWS customers. Worked across AWS teams and engaged with the decision makers in executive, business, and technology functions at customers.

  • Principal Business Development Lead - Financial Services, Flexible Compute & HPC

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Principal Business Development Lead - Financial Services, Amazon EC2 & HPC

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Sr. Business Development Manager EMEA - Compute

    Jun 2018 - Jan 2021