Bio

Christopher Wilder has +25 years of cyber security, networking, and telecommunications experience. Chris has spent the past two decades working with dozens of the largest technology firms on go-to-market, technology architecture, M&A, and marketing and content strategy. He is the co-author of the best-selling business book, Influencing the Influencers (ISBN: 0978964306) and author of technology ebook publications: Big Software Has Arrived, The CTO’s Guide to SDN, NFV & VNF, Carrier Cloudification: What Telecom Executives Need to Know, The Essential Guide for Telecom Service Providers Adopting Big Data Solutions, and The No Nonsense Way to Accelerate Your Business With Containers. Chris is also a frequent contributor to The Boston Globe, New York Times, Forbes, TechTarget, Light Reading, and other leading publications. He currently serves as a Managing Director and technology advisor for a London- based investment fund focused on energy and technology, and he provides ongoing advice, due diligence, and council to multiple venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds. Chris has held executive management positions including leading the Cloud Services, Security & Enterprise Applications practices for industry analyst firm Moor Insights & Strategy, Chairman & CEO for IoT firm Tiga Energy Services, CMO for Open Source Real-Time Communications (RTC) company TeleStax, COO for MVNO VoiceWorks Mobile, EVP & Managing Partner for The Knowledge Capital Group, Content Marketing lead for Canonical/Ubuntu, and Head of Influencer & Analyst Relations communications for HP Labs where he focused on teaching drones to learn, 3D printing, and augmented reality solutions. Chris has also been on the ground floor for several successful (and not so successful) start-ups. Chris has a degree in Marketing and received an executive certification from The California Institute of Technology for Machine Learning and Big Data.