Chris King has joined as a Board Advisor

Chris King helps start-ups and non-profits grow, mature, and thrive.

Chris has a track record of marketing rapidly growing products and companies – helping to define emerging categories like network virtualization, next-generation firewalls, and WAN optimization.

Prior to taking on advisory, board, and consulting roles, Chris was the Vice President of Marketing at tCell.io. He was Vice President of Product Marketing for Networking and Security (Nicira/NSX) at VMware and helped grow the network virtualization business from launch to a $600M/year business.

Before joining VMware, Chris ran product marketing for Palo Alto Networks for over 5 years and helped grow that company from a handful of customers to a $400M+/year business.

He served in product marketing roles at Blue Coat Systems, growing the WAN optimization product from inception to a $160M/year business. He also spent over 8 years as a technology analyst for META Group.

Chris has consulted with hundreds of large IT organizations, spoken before a variety of audiences, and was often quoted in tech and business press. Chris holds a B.A. from George Mason University.

Chris also serves on the board of two non-profit organizations: Sierra Avalanche Center and Sugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy.