Chris founded and launched Nebula in July of 2011 to disrupt enterprise computing and ignite a new era of global innovation after serving as NASA's Chief Technology Officer. At NASA, Chris co-founded the OpenStack project and led the Nebula project, NASA's cloud computing initiative. Chris also served as the Chairman of the White House Federal Cloud Computing Standards Working Group and was a member of the Cloud Computing Executive Steering Committee under Federal CIO Vivek Kundra. Prior to his role as CTO of NASA, Chris served as the CIO of NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, where he helped forge partnerships with Google and Microsoft that created Google Moon and Mars, and Microsoft's World Wide Telescope. Prior to joining NASA, Chris helped create the third largest online community Classmates.com, the leading web-based vacation rental platform Escapia, and the first online grocery shopping platform for Kroger, the world's largest grocery store chain.