Alfred P. Toussaint, Jr. is President and CEO of Nova Technology Partners (NTPi), a company he co-founded in 2006 to provide technology solutions and integrated marketing services to federal, state, local, non-governmental, and international public sector agencies.
In May 2010, Mr. Toussaint expanded NTPi’s portfolio of services to include a Haiti practice whose mission includes recruiting global companies from select industries as clients, to come and establish export-focused manufacturing operations in Haiti to accelerate economic development and jobs creation.
From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Toussaint held the additional role of Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales at Ordia Solutions where he engineered the transformation of that company from incubation to initial product launch, to GPS blue force tracking category leadership with public safety customers in North America and Europe, and soon Asia and Southern Africa. He retains an equity interest in the company.
Prior to NTPi, Mr. Toussaint spent over twenty years in increasingly senior technical and marketing positions in the high-technology industry, working with both commercial and public sector customers. His last corporate assignment brought him to the Washington, DC area where he relocated in late 2003 to lead Intel Corporation's federal marketing operations. As Chief Marketing Strategist, he directed Intel’s efforts in expanding its brand, boosting its profile as a technology thought leader, and creating preference for solutions based on its architecture among federal agencies, the federal system integrator community, the solution VAR channel, and system vendors.
Mr. Toussaint worked with enterprise system and software vendors on joint marketing and business development initiatives. He teamed with DC-based media, marketing, PR, business development and government affairs firms to advance Intel’s agenda via print, web, and radio marketing, custom media, events exhibition, sponsorship and speakership, legislative and executive branch advocacy. He initiated relationships and/or negotiated leadership roles for Intel personnel at a number of organizations including Council for Excellence in Government, AFEI, AFCEA, NCOIC, ICH, and was a member of the Technology for Government (T4G) initiative at AeA now TechAmerica. Programs that he led and/or initiated for Intel in the federal sector included Telework, Energy-Efficient Datacenters, High Performance Computing, Mobile Data Security, Network Centric Operation, and Modeling, Simulation & Training. Based on requests by Intel account managers, Mr. Toussaint counseled Intel’s small-to-medium-sized computer manufacturing customers on how best to establish and sustain a beachhead in the federal sector.
Previous to the Washington assignment, Mr. Toussaint led Intel's High Performance Computing Program Office for the Americas geography, based at Intel's Portland, OR facilities, coordinating technical and marketing efforts with HPC vendors, corporate, academic, and government end-users across North and South America. During his HPC tenure, the number of Intel-based HPC systems increased from 3 in 2001 to 189 in the November 2003 Top500 list.
At Dell, Mr. Toussaint was a founding member of the Workstation Products Group in Round Rock, TX where as marketing alliance lead, he devised win-win marketing and sales programs with workstation software vendors worldwide such as Autodesk, SDRC, PTC and Dassault Systèmes. Dell catapulted to Intel/Windows workstation market share leadership within two years of launch.
At Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Toussaint led the global effort, based in Boston, MA, to successfully port the leading manufacturing applications CADDS5 and CATIA to HP’s UNIX workstation and server platforms. This work enabled HP to gain a beachhead in a lucrative manufacturing sector that was opened only to Sun and IBM, resulting in key HP wins at Airbus, Lockheed-Martin, Ford, and Samsung among other major manufacturing end-users.
Mr. Toussaint studied Computer Science and Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He resides in Northern Virginia and enjoys golf and scuba.
