Chris has 12 years of telecom and high-tech industry expertise as a market researcher, industry analyst and consultant. He has managed B2B and B2C projects for equipment vendors, software vendors and service providers in a broad range of technology areas such as Unified Communications, mobile services/ applications/devices, network security, storage, servers, enterprise applications, databases,managed IT and networking services, desktop/laptops, and digital lifestyle services and products including online content distribution and home networking. He has done extensive brand analysis, segmentation, new product development, customer satisfaction and needs analysis work using a broad variety of techniques and analytical tools.

Fluent in Spanish, he was previously director of the Latin America group at Pyramid Research, a telecom and networking consultancy.

Chris holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from Occidental College and an MA in International Economics and Latin American Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS.