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After being the chief marketing officer at three public companies, Christopher Lochhead retired at 38. Today he is a part-time strategy advisor. Christopher started his first company at age eighteen. Since then he has been an executive in four start-ups and has been an officer of three publicly traded technology companies: Mercury, Scient and Vantive.
Mercury Interactive Corporation, a $1B enterprise software company, was acquired by Hewlett Packard in November 2006 for $4.5B. The company was the leader in Business Technology Optimization software - now HP is. He helped grow the company from approximately $400m to over $1B from 2002 to 2006. In 1998 Lochhead helped start the Internet consulting firm Scient. They achieved $21M in first year sales, and $156M in its second year. Scient built a dominant brand, had a successful IPO, and became an early Internet leader. Lochhead joined Vantive, a customer relationship management (CRM) software company, in 1996 and helped the company grow from $25M in sales to $117M in two years. Prior to Vantive, Lochhead was the president of CRM consultant Always an Adventure International.] | 