Biography
John Norden is a 3rd generation Seattlelite growing up in West Seattle where he graduated from West Seattle High School. A Business and Economics graduate of Seattle Pacific University he started his career as an Executive Trainee with Sears Roebuck and Company where he became a Department Manager and was then promoted to the Assistant Advertising Managers position in early 1973. In 1976 John was hired by KIRO TV/CBS and became an Account Executive selling commercial television time in the Seattle region. In 1978 John was promoted to Regional Sales Manager, 1980 to National Sales Manager/VP National Sales Manager and in 1986 to VP General Sales Manager. Later in his career is worked as a Senior Account Manager and in 2006 retired from KIRO TV after a 30 plus year career. In 2006 and 2007 John became a Tour Director for A Cooks Tour, hosting cooking and wine tours to Italy, France and the Napa Valley. John is a consultant for some locally owned companies and works with the University of Washington's television group as a sales and marketing consultant. John sits on the board of directors of Senior Services for Seattle/King County and as the VP of its executive board. He joined the board of the Italian Studies Department of the UW in 2011. John is a Navy veteran serving in Viet Nam (Da Nang/Chu Lai) in 1967-68. He lives with his partner Mary Jean in West Seattle. He has a son Brennan who lives in Alaska and was a rookie musher in the 2011 Iditarod Dog Sled Race
An avid golfer, reader, chef and gardner he keeps himself busy around his home in West Seattle. John's grandfather Giovanni Di Giuseppe was born in Pescara, Italy and has family there and in San Remo.