Chris Lord

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About Chris Lord

Build products. Delight users. Grow teams. Ignite ideas. Keep learning. Make a difference. Have fun.As a founder, architect, and product leader, I operate at the intersection of deep technical architecture and business strategy. I have delivered products, scaled businesses, and fostered innovation across cybersecurity, AI, and data-intensive domains. I’m equally at home shaping corporate development, governance, and IP strategy as I am building agile cultures and driving R&D execution across enterprise and startup environments.As co-founder and CTO of Lambent, I helped higher-ed and CRE leaders transform how they view and use their physical footprint through occupancy analytics—enabling them to realize significant capital and operational savings through better space utilization and resource allocation.Previously, I worked at the forefront of cyber defense at Carbon Black to bring zero-trust and XDR solutions to market and helped launch several accelerator-backed security startups. Over the years, I've been fortunate to work with great teams and innovative technology, including application virtualization at Microsoft, survivable systems at US-CERT, exascale appliances at Cereva, fault-tolerant systems at Marathon, Internet search at AltaVista, and networked and distributed systems at Digital Equipment Corporation.