Norm Wu

Norm Wu, co-founder, President & CEO of Seattle-based Qliance Medical Management Inc., is a seasoned entrepreneur, operating executive and business strategist. After beginning his career as an engineer in the defense/electronic intelligence industry, he spent ten years at Bain & Company working with high growth clients on a variety of strategic and operating issues. As Vice-President, he was responsible for approximately half of Bain’s global high technology practice. He also worked with four large hospital system clients in the early 1980s to restructure their costs under the then new Medicare DRG reimbursement policy.

After Bain, Norm became a serial entrepreneur. He founded venture-backed Avantos Performance Systems (now part of Performance Solutions Technologies) to pioneer the category of software for management and organizational excellence. As an investor and operating board member, he helped guide the start-up, development and sale of LambdaFlex, an optical networking subsystems company (acquired by Avanex). Norm also co-founded a stealth mode consumer electronics IP company, serving as its interim CEO, and participated in the turnaround/LBO of public semiconductor company Zilog as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer.

Norm received his MBA from Harvard and his MS and BS with Distinction in electrical engineering from Stanford.