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Chris Risley has over 25 years of software business experience during which he has led nine venture-backed startups resulting in one IPO and four sales to public companies .
Most recently Risley was CEO of Defense . Net which sold to F5 Networks . Prior to this Chris was Chairman of StreamBase
which sold to TIBCO .
Risley was also CEO of Digital Reef until it was acquired by TransPerfect in late 2012 .
Before that Risley was CEO of Nominum , Inc . acquired by Akamai , Risley ’ s background also includes service as CEO of NewChannel , an eBusiness service provider sold to LivePerson , and as Chairman and CEO of ON Technology Corp ., a network security software provider acquired by Symantec .