Chris leads business development efforts for ThinkFire with a primary focus on delivering profit and freedom to enter new markets through patent acquisitions and sales. Joined by a team of technologists, patent attorneys and market strategists, Chris orchestrates solutions that identify high impact patents in targeted product areas and delivers win-win results to both patent owners and purchasers of their patents.



Prior to joining ThinkFire, Chris spent the last 20 years in ever increasing leadership roles with Telcordia Technologies, a leading provider of telecommunication software and services. He held P/L responsibility for businesses exceeding $150M in revenue and drove significant revenue and profitability growth through acquisitions of intellectual property and development of innovative new products and services, solving business problems for wireless, wireline, MVNO, and cable operators worldwide.



Chris holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Brown University.