Chief Executive Officer

Myra Norton, Chief Executive Officer of Community Analytics LLC, has been with the firm since its inception in 2004. Norton is responsible for providing strategic direction for all of Community Analytics’ business units and is leading the firm through its next era of dynamic growth.

Norton has extensive academic experience as an administrator in the College of Science and Technology at Temple University, teaching in the Business School and the College of Science and Technology at Temple University, as well as lecturing on mathematics and statistics at Towson University and providing academic support to midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.

She is a leading thinker on the application of social networks within communities, speaking and writing on this subject in a variety of venues. Norton is advancing the Community Analytics tagline, The Power of Human Networks® – a succinct statement of the company’s vision of authentic customer engagement. This commitment is driving the company’s strategy among many of the Fortune 1000 companies as well as top colleges and universities.

Ms. Norton serves as a speaker and facilitator for the Network Roundtable at the University of Virginia, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Business Marketing Association (BMA), and other such organizations. She works with researchers from Harvard University, Babson College, University of Virginia, University of Maryland and the University of Chicago. Her principal focus is the study of personal relationships. She leads the National Girls Collaborative Project as part of her work with the Center for Women in Technology, is currently serving as Chair of the Industrial Advisory Board for the College of Engineering and Information Technology at UMBC, serves as a mentor for college students and young professionals in the Baltimore area, works with high school students through the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and is actively involved in the Greater Baltimore Technology Council.

Norton graduated from University of Alabama with a BS in Math Education and received an MA in Mathematics and an MS in Statistics at Temple University. She is a fitness enthusiast (running her first marathon in November 2009), closely follows college athletics, sings with a local acoustic band, plays piano and guitar, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Pat, and yellow lab, Bama.