Chris is the founder and first CEO of Shazam, three-time startup founder, pioneer of mobile ecosystems at Google and Dropbox, and inventor of 12 patents including one found within the Google search algorithm.

Shazam has been downloaded 2 billion times and was acquired by Apple in 2018 for a reported $400 million, making it Apple’s 6^th largest acquisition of all-time.

Chris is now building his third startup company which will detect drowning in swimming pools using artificial intelligence and computer vision.