Inspire Semiconductor Holdings Inc. announced the promotions of Doug Norton, formerly Vice President of Business Development, to Chief Marketing Officer, and Thomas Fedorko, formerly Vice President of Operations, to Chief Operating Officer. As Chief Marketing Officer, Mr. Norton will have direct oversight over all the Company's sales, marketing and business development activities. Norton is a senior business development, sales, and marketing executive with over 35 years of experience in public and startup enterprise technology companies.

Prior to InspireSemi, Norton held various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Newisys, Virtual Instruments, and Nimbix. He also is President of the Society of HPC Professionals and member of the RISC-V SIG-HPC and marketing committee. As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Fedorko will oversee InspireSemi's day-to-day operational functions including maintaining key supply chain relationships, managing production scale up and new product introductions.

Prior to InspireSemi, Fedorko was the Vice President of Operations for Eta Compute who developed an ultra-low power solution for energy constrained AI applications. Previously, he led the Operations teams for several successful startup companies including Uhnder, Bluetechnix (acquired by Becom), Black Sand Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm), Luminary Micro (acquired by Texas Instruments) and Oak Technology (acquired by Zoran). The appointments are subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the TSXV).