Christopher Nguyen

I'm an Irrepressible Optimist who's done just about everything under my sun, and am currently having fun with my family, work, and friends. I'm also CEO at ACTGENT, a start-up in Silicon Valley. More about me can be found at LinkedIn and Google Profiles.

CEO @ ACTGENT, Inc.: Prior to ACTGENT, Christopher was CEO at Bluepulse, a mobile tech start-up. Before that, he worked at Google as Director of Engineering responsible for the operations of Google Apps (GMail, Calendar, etc). He is a recipient of the Google Founders' Award.

Previously he was founder and Chief Executive Officer of ACTGent Software, where he delivered five generations of a multi-million dollar real-time trading system, which was acquired by SHB Bank in 2005. He was also a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Agenda-Asia, a 400 strong pan-Asia digital presence agency acquired by WPP in 2008.

Earlier, he was a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, where he helped launch their Computer Engineering program. He has also held technical positions at Xerox, Hewlett Packard and Intel. Christopher holds a bachelor's degree with highest honors in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University.