Chris Risley, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), leads StreamBase Systems as the company scales to support the accelerated market demand for its Complex Event Processing (CEP) software. He joins StreamBase with over 20 years of software business experience during which he has led four startups resulting in one IPO and three sales to public companies. Most recently, Risley was the CEO of Nominum, Inc., an IP name and address software company. Risley s background also includes service as CEO of NewChannel, an e-business service provider and as Chairman and CEO of ON Technology Corp., a network software provider. Risley led ON Technology s IPO in 1995, and within the next year, the company was listed as the 36th Fastest Growing Public Companies by INC 100. In addition, under Risley s leadership, ON s revenues grew by 2,700 percent over the next five years. Risley has also served as Entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to his achievements in the software industry, Risley spent 10 years with European industrial companies including BTR plc (now Invensys) and Advisor to the Chairman of British Aerospace during the company s turnaround. Risley holds a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Business