Chris is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist, now the Co-Founder and CEO of Babblelabs, recently acquired by Cisco. Babblelabs is a deep learning technology company, focused on speech. Most recently, he has led Cognite Ventures, a specialized analysis and investment company for deep learning startups.

Prior to Cognite, he served as CTO for Cadence's IP Group. Chris joined Cadence after its acquisition of Tensilica, the company he founded in 1997 to develop Extensible processors. He led Tensilica as CEO and later CTO to develop one of the most prolific embedded processor architectures.