Chris Matthieu

Chris Matthieu is the president, CEO and founder of Computes, Inc., the world's first decentralized and distributed mesh computing platform. Computes can harness the world's idle (or wasted) CPUs and GPUs for businesses and the greater good, eliminating the line between cloud and fog/edge computing and delivering infinite computing everywhere.

Prior to founding Computes, Matthieu was the director of IoT engineering at Citrix. In this role, Matthieu led technical decision-making for the company's IoT solutions. Matthieu joined Citrix through the acquisition of Octoblu, a revolutionary real-time IoT platform, where he served as the co-founder and CTO. Octoblu connects things, systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and analyze/react to real-time events and messages as well as big data trends and anomalies.

Matthieu brings 30 years of experience in driving the development and launch of disruptive technologies to create new market opportunities as well as enhance enterprise product portfolios with emerging technologies. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog, and the founder of Teleku, a communications-as-a-service cloud platform which was acquired by Voxeo. Chris was also the founder of Digital Voice Technologies, the creator of the first VoiceXML-powered voice browser, which was acquired by Ideas & Associates.

His experience to date spans a wide portfolio of emerging technologies including IoT, robotics, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, autonomous drones and vehicles, blockchain, HPC, RF and wearables.

Matthieu holds a bachelor of science degree in business and CIS from the Northern Arizona University. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisMatthieu.