38 min

Mayfield CXO Of The Future Podcast #9: Norm Fjeldheim, Former CIO, Illumina The CXO of the Future

    • Management

A huge part of the CIO’s role is to drive strategic innovation in their companies and make sure the whole team is imbued with that culture of innovation. This is especially true when you’re working for an organization that is disrupting the industry it’s in with new ideas and new technologies. This is the kind of world that Norm Fjeldheim has been working in for more than 40 years. Norm has is the recently retired Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the San Diego based biotech firm, Illumina, where he has worked since 2016. Prior to that, he occupied the same role at Qualcomm, an engineering firm where he grew his career from entry-level to C-suite way back in the mid-1980s. Norm is also a thoughtful advisor to many early stage companies. In this interview with host, Gamiel Gram, Norm shares the valuable lessons that every CIO in a disruptive organization needs to learn from.

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A huge part of the CIO’s role is to drive strategic innovation in their companies and make sure the whole team is imbued with that culture of innovation. This is especially true when you’re working for an organization that is disrupting the industry it’s in with new ideas and new technologies. This is the kind of world that Norm Fjeldheim has been working in for more than 40 years. Norm has is the recently retired Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the San Diego based biotech firm, Illumina, where he has worked since 2016. Prior to that, he occupied the same role at Qualcomm, an engineering firm where he grew his career from entry-level to C-suite way back in the mid-1980s. Norm is also a thoughtful advisor to many early stage companies. In this interview with host, Gamiel Gram, Norm shares the valuable lessons that every CIO in a disruptive organization needs to learn from.

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38 min