Hayne Shumate

Hayne Shumate, Senior Vice President of Internet Business at Mouser Electronics, leads an international team that designs, builds and hosts Mouser’s award-winning websites.

Mouser sells circuit board level electronic components to designing engineers around the world. The company’s customers include the largest electronics companies as well as hobbyists and students. The websites give companies access to more than a million stocked products through 60 country specific websites translated into 24 languages.

Hayne joined Mouser in 2008 to consolidate related teams from Information Systems and Marketing into an Internet Business Department. This new department was built to support and enhance Mouser’s rapid international growth as the company diversifies its sales beyond the catalog. Product Data responsibility was added to the Internet Business department in 2016. Traffic and transactions have increased more than 1000% since the department was formed with the sites now accepting 200k orders per month selling (Direct To Consumer) into more than 100 countries.

He started his career teaching inner-city students with Teach for America before moving into E-commerce and electronic component distribution in 1994. His background includes Marketing, Internet Infrastructure, Retail E-Commerce, International Business and Management.

Today, Shumate and his team continue to push Mouser’s Internet Business and best-in-class online user experience with the goal of providing the right information on any component to any engineer working on any device, anywhere at any time.

Shumate holds an MBA from UT Arlington and a BA from The University of Texas at Austin.