Guy Smith, with Novell Vice Chair Chris Stone, and Linux inventor Linus Torvalds

Guy Smith is the chief consultant for Silicon Strategies.  Guy brings a combination of technical, managerial and marketing experience to Silicon Strategies projects.

Directly and as a consultant, Guy has worked with a variety of technology producing organizations.  A partial list of these technology firms includes ORBiT Group (high-availability backup software), Telamon (wireless middleware), Wink Communications (interactive television), VA Software (enterprise software), SUSE (Linux distributions and applications) and Novell (infrastructure software).

Before turning to marketing, Guy was a technologist for NASA, McDonnell Douglas, Circuit City Corporate Headquarters and other organizations.  Guy spent more than a decade focused on IT infrastructure issues and managing complex, multi-platform mainframe-class installations and staffs.

Guy has more than a decade of experience in product marketing, product strategy and
branding strategy development.

Both in VP level roles as well as through consulting, Guy has led efforts on marketing technology products and services as diverse as enterprise backup software, Collaborative Software Development (CSD) systems, donation management portals and language/localization services.  Guy's primary focus is on market strategy development from product conception to product launch.

It is this unique combination of hands-on technology implementation and technology marketing savvy that provides Guy with immediate insights into market dominance strategy development.