- Started:
- February 2018
- Role:
- Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) & Board member
- Connect:
Based in Sydney, Chris is responsible for driving our sales and marketing strategy. He also sits on the Salsa Board.
Chris is an experienced leader of technology companies, working across sales, pre-sales, partner and marketing functions.
Previous experience
Chris has over 25 years’ experience building and running technology companies. He began his career as an IT consultant in the 90s mainly focused on telcos in the UK, Finland, Poland and Thailand. He then moved to the emerging technology space, working across a range of successful startups such as Plumtree (portal), Endeca (guided search), Acquia (content management) and Hortonworks (big data) before joining Confluent to launch their Asia-Pacific operation. From there Chris went on to become the Asia-Pacific Vice President of Drift and then Hasura.
Chris is the former APAC Director at Acquia, where he led the team that worked with the Department of Finance to launch and run the GovCMS program. Working with the Online Services Branch at Finance on such a successful shared services program has been a highlight in Chris’ career. Post Acquia, Chris mentored Salsa to help us win the GovCMS contract as we know it today.
Chris has also been a Salsa Board member since 2018, helping to steer Salsa’s strategic direction.
Hobbies
Among other things, Chris likes the Arsenal soccer team and free diving, and makes custom Fedora hats under the brand The Disguised Flamingo.
