Management Team
Norman Johnson – Founder and President
Norm Johnson is President of the Building Industry Network, directing all marketing, sales and partnership activities. Norm brings an insider's view of the building industry to the BIN offering. While growing up in a family owned construction company, Norm quickly learned which end of the hammer to hold on to. Long hours framing houses in the Seattle rain convinced him that architecture might be a more interesting career path. After graduating from the University of Washington, Norm found that architectural jobs were scarce so he began his career supervising the construction of commercial, restaurant and retail projects in the San Francisco Bay area.
He gained further understanding of the building industry when he returned to architecture as a technical designer for NBBJ's Retail Concepts group. Norm then joined the Eddie Bauer corporate staff as a design manager. He managed the design effort for well over a hundred stores in the US, Canada, Japan, and the UK including award winning premier store concepts in Chicago and San Francisco. Norm later worked as a new business development manager at DuPont Flooring Systems, selling commercial floor covering to national accounts and overseeing all aspects of installation and maintenance. This experience gives Norm a hands-on understanding of the day-to-day issues faced by vendors and service providers in this dynamic industry. Norm has been building his online sales and marketing knowledge and experience since launching his first design and construction related web directory in 1996.
Matthew Brown – Director of Technology and Operations
Matt is responsible for all company operations,
technology and systems management activities. He comes to BIN with over ten years of product management and enterprise system computing and development experience in both the telecommunication, construction, mortgage and Internet industries. Faced with the unique challenges of demanding and dynamic environments, he has successfully identified, developed and implemented mission critical information systems for the construction and mortgage industries. Prior to joining BIN, he was responsible for the product design and implementation of enterprise Internet data systems and security for Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Brown earned his Bachelors of Business Administration in Information Sciences from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA.
Jim Wiggins - Director of Sales
Jim has over 20 years experience in the computer industry specializing in streaming media, Web-based application development and geographic information systems. He has worked in development, consulting and sales for national and international government agencies and for successful software, consulting and engineering firms in the US and Europe. Jim worked as a technical sales consultant for ESRI-Italia, as technical sales manager for ESRI-UK, and as sales manager for Weston Solutions’ information systems consulting group. Jim was a founder and VP of sales for CustomStream, a pioneer in the streaming media industry, focused on Web-enabled and managed business presentations. Jim received his B.A. in Geography from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.
Advisors
Ranjit Mulgaonkar - VP Product Management and Biz Dev - Avalara
Mr. Mulgaonkar brings over 20 years of senior management experience in the Internet, e-commerce, payment processing, desktop publishing and digital imaging industries. In prior years Mr. Mulgaonkar was the Senior Vice President with Network Commerce where he built the e-business services divisions from ground up to over $20 million in revenues and participated in a successful IPO raising over $300 Million.
Ranjit was the General Manager of Products at iCat Corporation which was bought by Intel Corporation in 1999. At iCat Ranjit was responsible for creating and launching e-commerce products and services for small and mid size businesses who wanted to sell products and services online. Ranjit was the Vice President and General Manager for Moore Corporation (Moore-Donnelley) where he launched the Interactive Marketing Solutions Division to provide 1:1 marketing solutions using on-demand printing technologies. Ranjit also managed all of Moore's corporate software development efforts as the Vice President of Research. Prior to joining Moore, Ranjit was the Product Marketing Manager at Xerox Corporation and was responsible for forming a worldwide alliance between Fuji, Scitex, Rank Xerox leading to the introduction of DocuColor40 which generated over $700 Million in revenues for Xerox.
At Aldus (Now Adobe) Ranjit was responsible for forming the Aldus Prepress Division that introduced five revolutionary software products for the printing and publishing industry in early 1990. Mr. Mulgaonkar holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and an Undergraduate Degree in Electronics & Telecommunications, and Executive Management training from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Mr. Mulgaonkar has published many papers and articles and spoken in over 40 conferences worldwide.
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