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Christopher Boone

Mr. Christopher Boone

President and Chief Executive Officer, Visuvi Inc.

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Council Member Biography

Christopher Boone is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Visuvi, a visual search engine that examines the content and patterns within an image, categorizes that information via mathematical indexing and delivers search results of information based on the image itself. Previously, Mr. Boone was the President and CEO of AppCentral, a software as a service firm with patent pending technology in desktop virtualization. He specializes in enterprise IT, internet media and telecommunications and corporate finance. Mr. Boone has authored patents on encrypted networks, virtualization software and network security and is the primary inventor on 4 patents pending. Prior to that, he was the Head of ecommerce and part of the Senior Leadership Team heading corporate strategy at Excite@Home and was a Vice President in Investment Banking at JP Morgan in New York City where he focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, structured products and derivatives. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2008 - Unspecified
President and Chief Executive Officer, Visuvi Inc.
2004 - 2008
President and Chief Executive Officer, AppCentral, Inc.
2002 - 2004
President & CEO, Cimbal Management Consulting
2000 - 2002
Senior Director, At Home Corp
1993 - 2000
Vice President, J.P. MORGAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC.

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All things evolve, including technology

August 11, 2008

Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service | www.cioinsight.com

Cloud computing will increase productivity, reduce technology burdens, and improve cash flows as monthly subscriptions/utility services.  While we are at the forefront of a new technology generation, SaaS/cloud computing will evolve and as it does, client installed software, locally stored data and the burdens associated with them will go the way of the dodo.

iPhone Business Adoption Highly Unlikely

March 14, 2008

Apple Faces Challenges In Driving iPhone Adoption By Business | www.informationweek.com

Security issues + poor keyboard form factor + lack of Exchange 2003 compatibility + high cost all equate to lack of adoption by businesses as RIM replacement.

Expect Virtualization "Co-opetition" Near Term

June 25, 2007

Microsoft, VMware Agree: They Better Cooperate | www.informationweek.com

•     Onus on VMWare, XenSource, etc. to comply with Microsoft software, not the other way around
•     Microsoft has virtualization software of their own
•     Expect Microsoft cooperation today, competition tomorrow

Change is Good... But Lots More is Needed

December 7, 2006

Yahoo Shakes Up Leadership | www.mercurynews.com

Reshuffling the executives at Yahoo is indicative of the company and its board, recognizing that Yahoo is falling behind Google and the Nasdaq. Positioning Sue Decker with operations and revenue responsibilities will make for a more logical successor to Terry Semel. Yahoo still lacks the strategic direction, growth and revenue diversification to surpass Google.   

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