Christine Heckart is an experienced technology CEO, independent board member, and a thirty-year veteran of the tech industry with a proven track record in creating new markets, innovating new products, driving digital transformation, and growing revenue streams from nothing to billions of dollars. Christine appreciates board service where her digital transformation, SaaS, and market strategy experience will add value as an independent director.

Christine is currently the founder and CEO of Xapa World, a venture backed start-up focused bringing joy to life, and making it fun and interesting to learn the critical softskills that help us navigate an increasingly chaotic and stressful world. She was most recently the CEO of Scalyr, Inc., a venture-backed data analytics company. During her tenure the company grew its core ARR by over 100% sequentially, created a new market category, overcame a few significant business challenges, and had a successful exit. Scalyr was purchased by SentinelOne in February 2021 and the combined companies went public in June 2021.

Christine’s board experience includes public and private boards. From 2011-2018, she served on the Board of Directors of Lam Research, a Fortune 250 semiconductor equipment company, where she sat on the Comp, Audit and Strategy committees. During her tenure, the board oversaw two chairman transitions, two CEO transitions, a successful merger, a failed acquisition attempt, and an exploration of diversification strategies. From 2015-2019, Christine served on the board of 6sense, Inc., a data analytics company where the board oversaw a CEO transition, repositioned the company into a new category, created a new GTM motion, and successfully sold the company. In 2020 she joined the board of Contentful, a digital platform for content delivery, as its first independent director as the company prepares for an IPO in 2021/22. In 2021 she joined the board of SiTime, a semiconductor company that provides MEMS timing.

Christine is known and respected for her experience in creating products and new market categories, driving digital transformation, and developing new sources of revenue. Prior to becoming CEO of Scalyr, Christine held executive roles at Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, Juniper Networks, and other top technology brands.

• As SVP for Cisco’s entire product portfolio, Christine was responsible for the global go-to-market strategy for each of the business units.
• While a general manager at Microsoft for the TV, video and music business, Christine’s organization doubled the user base of the $2B Windows Media Center business, created a new category for IPTV and drove revenues from $0 to $300m in the first two years resulting in a billion dollars of revenue in the first six years, created the world’s first paid SaaS music offering, and drove a 30% increase in SaaS revenues.
• While chief operating officer at ServiceSource, the company undertook a repositioning from professional services to SaaS for data analytics and increased revenues by 32% in two years.
•  As CMO for NetApp, Christine’s team created a new category of storage solution which now accounts for over $1B in annual sales, and oversaw all aspects of global marketing, communications, and partner ecosystem.
• While at Brocade, company valuation increased 230% as part of a major digital transformation to software and SaaS, she created a new market category for software-defined networking, and drove triple digit growth in IP software sales.
• During her tenure as president of TeleChoice, the company doubled revenues for seven consecutive years.

Christine has global experience in business and consumer markets across a range of industries including:

• Networking
• Data analytics
• Wireless
• SaaS
• Security
•  Communications
• Storage
• Marketing technology
• TV, Music, Entertainment
• Semiconductor equipment

Leadership Awards and Industry Recognition

• Twice named one of the top ten strategic thinkers and fifty most powerful people in the networking industry by IDG and Network World before the age of thirty.
• 2009 Recipient of the coveted Microsoft Leadership Award
• Named one of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council in 2014 and 2015
• 2016 Woman of Influence, Silicon Valley Business Journal.
• Top 100 Silicon Valley Female Leaders, 2017 Silicon Valley Business Journal.
• CloudNow 2020 Top Women in Cloud award
• Other positions and credentials
• Teaching faculty for the Next Generations Directors Academy at the Berkeley Haas School of business, which trains people on all aspects of governance
• Board Director for the Silicon Valley Executive Network
• Pioneer founding member of Athena Alliance, and Firstboard.io, which help place women on boards
• Frequent guest speaker for BDO and at NACD on Digital Transformation
• Host of @Makers podcast series: Scalying New Heights which interviews top technology executives at SaaS companies about technology, SaaS/cloud transformation, and leadership topics
• Member of the Silicon Valley Women’s Director Salon for excellence in governance
• Completed board training programs with Stanford, Berkeley Haas and NACD
• Personal
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder
• Wife of 32 years and mother of three amazing adult children, who each plan to change the world
• Published author of two technology books
• Painter, writer of science fiction, and reader of quantum physics and history