Christopher is a commercial and operational focused product & engineering leader with 20 years of experience in building and leading onshore and remote product management, engineering, and support teams and a decade of experience in B2B SaaS. Christopher joined TRIBE as CTO in 2016 to build and steer TRIBE’s product and engineering team. Currently, Christopher is responsible for Product Mgmt, Product Design, Engineering, Data Science / Machine Learning & Support functions across 4 regions. Christopher spent the formative years of his career in enterprise software with a number of Australia’s Big 4 management consultancies in their enterprise technology consulting divisions. In 2006, Christopher co-founded a cloud-first, mid-market, omni-channel ERP SaaS platform for retail, wholesale and distribution businesses. Following exiting the business, he joined one of Australia’s largest K-12 education print manufacturers to build a cloud-based edTech SaaS platform which was subsequently licensed under a distribution agreement to the largest US & European equivalents. Skills General Management, Management Consulting, Start-up Development & Commercialisation, Sales, Product Management & Marketing, Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Management, Cloud-based software, Mobile Application Development, Software Development, Offshore Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Capital Raising, R&D Tax Incentive submissions, Software Distribution/Licensing, Creative Thinking & Problem Solving.Vertical Experience Software/Internet, Retail, Wholesale, Distribution, Transport, Financial Services, Liquor and Leisure, Franchise, Telecommunications, Sustainability, Event Management, FMCG, Automotive, Printing, Education.Research Interests Cloud-based technology (IaaS, PaaS, BaaS, SaaS), big data, machine learning, leading edge software development technologies, ubiquitous mobile computing, emerging internet based business models, IoT (wearables, iBeacons).
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