Director of Business Development, Wind River

Charlie Ashton is an accomplished marketing and business development executive with extensive experience in the embedded systems industry. At Wind River, Charlie is responsible for business development initiatives for networking solutions. A prolific writer and commentator, his frequent blog posts and trade articles can be found throughout the embedded and software communities' literature.

Charlie has held leadership roles in both engineering and marketing at software, semiconductor and systems companies including 6WIND, AppliedMicro, Green Hills Software, Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor), Dell and AMD.

Charlie graduated from the University of Reading in England with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.