| Chris Gill |
 Chris Gill, President & CEO of SVASE, has founded 8 companies over the past 30 years, with 6 achieving successful liquidity events. He has experience as a business executive in Europe, North America and Asia, with Fortune 100 companies as well as privately funded and venture backed startups including the Access Group (founder), Avnet Inc., Digitalent (founder), ITT, Mostek International & ZF Micro Devices. He was Guest Lecturer on entrepreneurship at the 2006 Pragyan conference, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, and has been featured in and written articles on business and technology issues for the Financial Times, Business Week, Linux Journal and other publications. His new book for entrepreneurs, "Learning from Silicon Valley Legends" is due to be published in the spring of 2006. Chris was awarded a BSc in Computer Science from Manchester University (UK). |