James Norrod

Who is James Norrod?

Jim Norrod was appointed as President and CEO of Segway Inc. in

March 2005. At Segway Inc., he applies his extensive experience in

building technology companies and developing new markets to leverage

the company’s core technologies and expand into new product categories.

Jim also serves as a member of the Segway Inc. board of directors.

Jim came to Segway Inc. with 25 years of experience with technology

companies. Prior to joining Segway Inc., he was chairman, president and

CEO of Narad Networks a provider of business broadband solutions. Prior

to that, he founded Xanoptix, Inc. in 2000 and served as its chairman

until 2003.

In 1993 Jim was appointed

president and CEO of Octocom Systems, Inc., which later merged with

Telebit Corporation, a publicly traded dial-up network company. Jim was

president and CEO of Telebit until Cisco Systems, Inc. acquired it in

1996. Jim began his career with IBM as a sales executive and

subsequently held senior management roles with a variety of technology

companies. Jim has a bachelor of science in economics from

Oakland University and a master’s in business administration from the

University of Detroit.