Chris Gardner is responsible for ExtendMedia's corporate marketing and product management initiatives. With 16 years in high-technology marketing and product management, his background spans a variety of technology areas including wireless, digital content, customer self-service, e-billing, document management and speech recognition. Most recently, Chris was the SVP of Products and Marketing at m-Qube, an enabler of mobile content commerce that was acquired by Verisign in 2006. He was also the Vice President of Products and Marketing at edocs, Inc., a venture-backed e-billing and customer self-service company that was subsequently acquired by Siebel Systems. Before that, Chris was the Vice President of Marketing at OmniBrowse, Inc., and led the launch of its wireless portal that provided real-time data services to wireless devices. OmniBrowse was sold to Microsoft and became part of MSN Mobile. Chris also served as Product Manager for internet technologies at PC DOCS, as a product manager at Gartner Group and as Corporate Communications Manager at Dragon Systems, a leading speech recognition technology provider. Chris received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |