Chris Airola
Experienced CTO

HomeSavvi

Websites:

• http://www.airola.com
• http://www.redllamainc.com

Chris has been a career entrepreneur who can bring an idea from the whiteboard to full production and release. He has collaboratively developed and executed the business plans and product strategies for each of the companies he has co-founded, which have given him experience with both success and failure in the Web and Software industries.

Transforming companies from prototype to a v1.0 release.

I am looking for an upper-level technology management, VP, Director of technology, or Executive management position in an recently funded startup or emerging growth company.

BS Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University

http://www.airola.com for my CV.

Chris is currently the CTO of Home Savvy (formerly Alphabet Lane.) Prior to Home Savvy, Chris was the CTO and co-founder of Red Llama, Inc. He was integral in developing the vision of Red Llama's SimPraxis, an interactive software platform for medical simulation and training, and translating that vision into the release of SimPraxis v1.0. He co-developed the business plan and investment strategies for the company and hired an experienced CEO to take the company forward.

Chris is also a founding member of Stronghold Productions, an arts non-profit seeking to provide access to tools, knowledge and financial resources for artists in the Greater Seattle area. He was CTO and co-founder of Static Factory Media, and artist development organization that owned and operated a record label, performance venue, and web development and hosting business. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, he was a research engineer at the HITLab at the U of WA. He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and is an active member of Execunet, WSA, SIG-CHI, and many Seattle entrepreneurial communities.