Walt Blomquist

Responsible for directing the company’s technology and digital product strategy, delivering innovation across internal operations and customer-facing platforms spanning the commodity trading ecosystem, cloud and security infrastructure, and enterprise ERP systems. - Lead a cross-functional organization—Development, Product, IT/Security, and PMO—to execute transformational initiatives aligning technology investments with business growth. - CIO-level responsibility for modernizing global ERP platforms, workflow automations, and IT/Security infrastructure, enabling scalable operations, reducing operating costs, and preparing the enterprise for international expansion. - Reengineered the commodity trading platform and infrastructure, driving major improvements in trading velocity, system resilience, and portfolio diversification capabilities. - Accelerated delivery of AI-driven customer solutions, including digital marketplaces and enterprise emissions management tools, broadening market reach and strengthening client engagement. - Champion enterprise-wide AI enablement to advance product innovation, operational excellence, and customer experience. - Built a high-performance technology organization by attracting Fortune 500 executive talent and establishing an offshore development center aligned with aggressive strategic objectives.

Focus on transforming peer-to-peer marketplaces to be built atop a patented, decentralized services platform, one that shifts marketplace control to stakeholders and away from centralized 3rd parties.

A Big Data middleware software start-up delivering order-of-magnitude improvements in job completion speed; led company through early fund raising, product and marketing strategy, and partner eco-system development; built initial Sales and Marketing capacity leading to company/product launches and initial sales.

Responsible for the $1B+ portfolio of converged cloud-infrastructure solutions (compute, storage, networking) leading Product Management and Engineering organizations, and successful marketing campaigns; Executive sponsor for strategic partners; Key spokesperson for industry analysts.

Responsible for Enterprise and Service Provider solutions development, with emphasis on Cloud infrastructure, Orchestrated IaaS, and BYOD; Functional responsibilities for Product Management, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams; Executive sponsor for eco-system partners on joint development and go-to-market priorities.

Responsible for portfolio management of Cisco’s multi-$B modular switching portfolio addressing Enterprise and Data Center markets; Functional responsibilities for Product Management/Marketing, Technical Marketing, and Competitive Engineering; Developed successful strategies to improve overall market share and margins through portfolio restructuring and respective marketing campaigns.

Responsible for portfolio management of the multi-$B Catalyst 6K modular switching product line addressing Enterprise and Data Center Switch markets; Functional responsibilities for Product Management/Marketing, Technical Marketing, and Competitive Engineering; Led marketing strategies that drove market share gains, and business development efforts with top VAR partners that resulted in significant revenue growth.

Start-up focused on the IP-PBX and Call Control SW market; Key contributor to corporate strategy, business development, and fund raising; Responsible for all Marketing/PR and Product Management activities; Key spokesperson for industry press/analysts; Led campaign resulting in Ascendent being awarded One of Ten Emerging Wireless Players to Watch by IDC in 2004.

Start-up focused on the Storage-over-IP market; Key contributor to corporate strategy, business development, and fund raising; Responsible for all Marketing/PR and Product Management activities; Key spokesperson for industry press/analysts; Led campaign resulting in Nishan being awarded SAN Product of the Year by CMP, and Top 10 Private Companies list by Byte-&-Switch.