CEO, Head Chef, DataKitchen

Christopher Bergh is a Founder and Head Chef at DataKitchen, where he is leading DataKitchen’s Agile Data initiative. Chris has more than 25 years of research, engineering, analytics, and executive management experience. Previously, Chris was Regional Vice President of the Revenue Management Intelligence group in Model N. Before Model N, Chris was COO of LeapFrogRx, a descriptive and predictive analytics software and service provider. Chris led the acquisition of LeapFrogRx by Model N in January 2012. Prior to LeapFrogRx, Chris was CTO and VP of Product Management of MarketSoft (now part of IBM), an innovative Enterprise Marketing Management software vendor.

Prior to that, Chris developed Microsoft Passport, the predecessor to Windows Live ID, a distributed authentication system used by hundreds of millions of users today. He was awarded a U.S. Patent for his work on that project.

Before joining Microsoft, he led the technical architecture and implementation of Firefly Passport, an early leader in Internet Personalization and Privacy. Microsoft subsequently acquired Firefly. In addition, Chris led the development of the first travel-related e-commerce website at NetMarket.

Chris began his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center. There, he created software and algorithms that provided aircraft arrival optimization assistance to Air Traffic Controllers at several major airports in the United States.

Chris served as a Peace Corps Volunteer Math Teacher in Botswana, Africa. He has an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Chris is an avid cyclist, hiker, reader, and father of two teenagers. He can be found at linkedin.com/in/chrisbergh.