Chris has over 20 years of financial management experience at companies ranging from startups to large public companies. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Bionano Genomics, Inc. from September 2020 until joining LeddarTech in September 2023. Prior to that, Chris served as the Head of Maxwell Ultracapacitors at Tesla, Inc., a public electric vehicle and clean energy company, from May 2019 to July 2020, and as Vice President of Finance and Information Technology at Maxwell Technologies Inc., a public energy storage company, from July 2015 to May 2019 (at which point Tesla, Inc. acquired the company). In addition, Chris held multiple leadership roles, including Vice President of Finance at Entropic Communications and Chief Financial Officer of V-ENABLE Inc. (currently GroundTruth), a leader in targeted mobile advertising.
Chris received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and his M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.