Carl Norton grew up in a small New Jersey town but moved to Houston, Texas to attend law school and has been a resident ever since. He has been active in both the business and legal communities, and his business travels have taken him throughout the United States as well as to Europe and Asia.

Carl became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nationwide Graphics when he co-founded the company in January 1998. Nationwide Graphics provided comprehensive printed communications as well as marketing and supply chain management services through companies in 17 locations across 10 states. In addition to the traditional duties as Chief Executive Officer, Carl took an active role in numerous acquisitions and divestitures. Some of the acquisitions were of companies that had sought the protection of the Federal Bankruptcy Laws and others were acquired through UCC Article 9 transactions. Relying on his legal background, on many occasions Carl operated in a capacity similar to Nationwide's general counsel while guiding it through various legal matters along with directing and coordinating the efforts of outside legal counsel.

Carl served in those capacities until a private equity firm acquired Nationwide in 2011. After Nationwide was acquired, it was renamed Nationwide Argosy Solutions, LLC. Carl remained active in the company as its Chief Strategy Advisor until early 2016. Since then he has managed his personal investments.

Before co-founding Nationwide Graphics, Carl practiced law in Houston with Bracewell & Patterson (now Bracewell & Giuliani) and Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Johnson & Williams where he was chairman of the employment committee, co-chairman of the corporate and securities law department, and was elected to the executive committee. Thereafter he co-founded a law firm that became Norton & Blair. At its peak, Norton & Blair employed 38 lawyers and had offices in Houston and Austin, Texas. Carl's law practice focused on mergers, acquisitions and public and private offerings of securities.

As the managing director of Norton & Blair, Carl received widespread regional and national attention for his innovative risk-sharing fee program that helped appropriate clients minimize the entrepreneur's financial risk during the early stages of certain legal transactions. His articles and comments have been featured in such publications as DBA Magazine, The Texas Lawyer, Houston Post, Houston Business Journal and various other business journals and newspapers. Carl also served on the boards of directors of the Houston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth along with Americap Corporation and Ameriway Venture Partners, both Federally licensed small business investment companies.

Following the completion of his Bachelor Degree from Rutgers University, Carl accepted an accounting position with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche). After thee years, he left H&S and returned to Rutgers to earn an MBA Degree. He then returned to H&S; and along with more than 30,000 others, took the Uniform CPA Examination. His score was the third highest in the nation, resulting in his being awarded the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award. As a part of the H&S audit staff in the H&S Philadelphia and New York Offices, he was engaged in auditing brokerage and financial institutions and was selected as an initial member of the firm's Entrepreneurial Services Program. Carl worked in that capacity for another 1-1/2 years before departing to begin law school.

After moving to Houston to attend law school, Carl graduated from the University of Houston Law Center, where he was a member of the Houston Law Review and the Order of the Barons.