Christopher HertzCo Founder

United States - Bethesda, Maryland

Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Heeler where he is working to transform application security with unified code, runtime and business context. He is obsessed with delivering amazing customer experiences.

Chris has founded and grown multiple venture backed start-ups with 3 successful exits. Previously, Chris was the Chief Revenue Officer / Chief Marketing Officer of DivvyCloud (acquired by Rapid7) where he helped grow the company 10x in under four years. Prior to joining DivvyCloud, Chris was founder and CEO of New Signature. Under his leadership, New Signature (acquired by Cognizant) helped hundreds of companies adopt cloud computing, achieved 12 years of consecutive double-digit revenue growth, and won more than 120 awards including being named twice as Microsoft's United States Partner of the Year—in 2014 and 2015. Chris has helped lead and found multiple other technology startups including HelloWallet (acquired by Morningstar) and AllHerb.com.

Chris holds a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Information Management and Technology and Anthropology from Syracuse University, and sixteen technical certifications.

Previously, Chris served as a member of the Microsoft Office 365 Partner Advisory Council, Microsoft United States Partner Executive Board, and Microsoft Worldwide Systems Integrator Partner Executive Board.