With a technical background and over 20 years of experience in sales and account management. Chris has focused on developing and growing sales organizations in the market research, consulting, competitive intelligence and advisory services space targeting America’s Fortune 1000 companies. Currently, at Informa TechTarget, previously, Omdia, Informa, his team targets the largest firms in the technology, telecoms and media industries in the Americas.Over the past 15 years Chris has a track record of success in meeting or exceeding individual and team targets by identifying organizational challenges across a wide range of technology, telecoms and professional services industries and applying leading edge approaches and solutions that enable successful and meaningful outcomes for the clients.Prior to his roles at Omdia, Chris worked in various roles of business development at the Euromonitor, Palladium Group and Corporate Executive Board where he secured partnerships with Pepsi, Energizer, Whirlpool, Colgate-Palmolive, IHG, the City of Philadelphia, Snap-On Company, ACCO, Stericycle, Penn Mutual Life, GMAC, Erie Indemnity, McCormick & Company, Amerigroup and Teva Pharmaceuticals to name a few.Before beginning his career in sales and account management, Chris lived in Italy for more than a year working as a business consultant and was then hired by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served as a Marketing Officer to the Consul for Cultural Affairs in Chicago.Before moving to Italy, Chris was a Technical Marketing Manager for Motorola’s wireless Internet products and applications business. Mr. Cook began his career with Motorola in 1997 as a Manufacturing Process Engineer.Outside of the office, Chris serves on the Lincoln Park Zoo Aux Board.