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.

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.

Shumate’s department has launched the electronic component industry’s most capable Mobile Website (in 20 Languages and 30+ Currencies), Bill of Materials (BOM) processing tool and Customer Inventory Management application. As a strategic problem-solver, Shumate has led systems and process improvements, enabling Mouser’s web properties to support 200,000 online orders per month.

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. Shumate held management roles for several electronic component distributors as the industry consolidated over the last 3 decades. Prior to joining Mouser, Shumate was the Director of E-Commerce for the specialty retailer Zale Corporation. He has also done consulting work and has been a speaker/presenter at conferences related to e-commerce and the electronics industry.

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 was a University Scholar at UT Arlington where he earned his MBA. He holds a BA from The University of Texas at Austin.