Craig Thompson

About

Marketing executive with a broad range of experience in Product Management & Product Marketing of high technology products into global business customers, early stage product development, product launch & business unit management. Successful in early stage fund raising & sale of two lines of business. Specialties: Product Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, Strategic Planning

Experience

• NVIDIA (5 yrs 11 mos)
  • Vice President, LinkX Products, NVIDIA Networking
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Vice President, Business Development, Networking Group
    Sep 2020 - Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) ()
  • Vice President, Optoelectronic and RF Devices
    Jan 2020 - Sep 2020 · 9 mos

  • Vice President, 3D Sensing / New Markets
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Director, Strategic Marketing
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Co-Founder and Advisor at Pavilion
  Jan 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  Co-founded company and led early stage marketing and strategy for the company. Team raised seed-round investment and developed technology and business case that led to subsequent rounds of funding.

• Director, Business Development, Data Computing Division at EMC
  Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 · 1 yr

• Vice President Marketing at Aprius
  Feb 2008 - Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  Product Marketing Member of Executive Management Team responsible for marketing of Aprius I/O virtualization (IOV) technology & products into systems OEMs & large enterprise customers, Lead all activities related to product marketing, brand & creative, corporate communications, online marketing & lead generation, Work with Product Management to define marketing strategy, product roadmap, product requirements & specifications.