Chris Purpura, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and New Ventures, Intel
With more than 12 years technology industry experience, Chris Purpura was most recently providing management consulting services to various Silicon Valley startups targeting market strategies and partner ecosystem development and recruitment. Mr. Purpura has also held various Vice President, Marketing and Alliances positions with GoldenGate Software, a leading data transaction middleware vendor; Network Inference, a leading Policy Engine vendor; and Aspect Communications, a leading CRM Call Center vendor. Additionally, Mr. Purpura has served as Director of Product Management at Oracle where he led the launch of Oracle's Network Computing Architecture and launched Oracle's Application Server product division. Mr. Purpura holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego.