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Mr. Norrod brings more than 25 years of experience leading\ncompanies in highly regulated industries, including public and venture-backed\ntechnology companies. He specializes in forming strategic partnerships,\noptimizing domestic and international operations, establishing new sales\ndistribution channels, and developing management teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Norrod\u2019s extensive portfolio of leadership experience\nincludes serving as CEO of Tellabs, CEO of Zhone Technologies (Nasdaq: DZSI),\nCEO of Segway, CEO of Telebit (Nasdaq: TBIT), CEO of Adage, (Nasdaq: ADGE), and\nCEO of Infinite Power Solutions. He has also served as Executive Chairman of\nGreenBytes. Mr. Norrod has led companies to successful exits to organizations\nsuch as Apple, Cisco, and Oracle. His career started with 10 years at IBM,\nwhere he managed the General Motors account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPrecisionHawk is grateful for Michael Chasen\u2019s leadership\nin advancing the commercial drone economy and taking on a pivotal role with\npolicymakers in Washington as the FAA\u2019s Drone Advisory Committee Chairman,\u201d\nsaid Mr. Norrod of his immediate predecessor. \u201cMichael grew the company\nsignificantly and helped pioneer best practices in drone-based geospatial data\nanalytics across multiple industries. I am looking forward to continuing to\nbuild on his foundational work by delivering additional cost and time\nefficiencies, usability, and operational excellence to our customers. I am\neager to partner with him as we continue to build trust between the American\npublic and the commercial drone ecosystem, so that we unlock the full potential\nof this unique technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much of Mr. Norrod\u2019s experience has been in scaling\ntechnology companies by navigating difficult regulatory landscapes and forming\nfruitful strategic partnerships with other innovative firms. This appointment\nreflects the Board\u2019s confidence in his exceptional ability to foster\nrelationships and drive results, building on the strong momentum PrecisionHawk\nhad in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The commercial drone industry has grown faster than\nanticipated. The FAA forecasts that it could triple between now and 2023, with\nan estimated 835,000 drones flying by that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PrecisionHawk will continue to lead the way, assisting\nregulators and encouraging industry participants to adopt innovative policies,\npractices, and technologies that can support not only today\u2019s drone use cases,\nbut those of tomorrow. PrecisionHawk\u2019s continued software innovation uses\nartificial intelligence and machine learning to help enterprises better utilize\ndata collected by drones to solve business challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEver since leading PrecisionHawk\u2019s Series B financing in\n2014, we have shared the company\u2019s vision of delivering unprecedented insight\nthrough aerial data intelligence to businesses and markets of all kinds,\u201d said\nSam Schwerin, Managing Partner of Millennium Technology Value Partners, and a\nmember of the PrecisionHawk Board. \u201cWe welcome Jim Norrod as he brings his\ndecades of experience to foster deeper partnerships between PrecisionHawk and\nits customers and deliver widespread drone technology adoption to the broader\nmarkets PrecisionHawk serves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since its founding in 2010, PrecisionHawk has led policy and\ntechnology development efforts to advance the global adoption of commercial\ndrone technology. Some of the world\u2019s largest organizations, including five of\nthe top 10 utility companies, the largest provider of mobile communications\ninfrastructure in the United States, and the \u201cBig Six\u201d providers of seed and\nagricultural chemicals, rely on PrecisionHawk to help them apply innovative\ndrone hardware, software, and services to address critical business challenges.\nFrom managing asset inventory to measuring the health of telecommunications\ntowers, electricity distribution lines, and crops, PrecisionHawk\u2019s drone-based\ngeospatial data analytics solution delivers a flexible, cost-effective and\nsafety-conscious path to inspect and manage valuable assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PrecisionHawk, Inc., a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise, today announced that James Norrod has been named as the company\u2019s new Chief Executive Officer. Michael Chasen will lead PrecisionHawk\u2019s advisory board and continue to champion efforts to integrate commercial drones into the National Airspace as Chair of the FAA\u2019s Drone Advisory Committee. Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14648,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}