Senior Vice President – Corporate Marketing
Chris serves as Senior Vice President – Corporate Marketing, having joined ION in August 2003. As SVP, Chris’ accountabilities encompass corporate marketing, strategic planning, and corporate development. Before joining ION, Chris was a founder and Managing Director with RiverBend Associates, a management consulting firm based in Houston. Prior to founding RiverBend in January 2002, Chris was President of Tradeum, a venture-backed software company that was sold to VerticalNet in April 2000 when Chris assumed the role of Managing Director – Europe. Before joining Tradeum in January 2000, he was a Principal and partner at the management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. Prior to joining McKinsey in 1992, Chris held positions as a senior reservoir engineer with Exxon, in merchant banking with Bankers Trust, and in field operations with Unocal.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
