Chris is a senior leader with 25+ years of experience developing tools and services for the entertainment industry for customers such as Disney, Electronic Arts and Google. He has managed market leading tools like Maya, FBX and Arnold generating over 100m per year. He has fostered innovation on several ground breaking projects like Bifrost, ShaderX and Arnold GPU and has several authored patents. He has overseen partnerships with companies like Apple, Adobe, and Nvidia.

Chris is a huge advocate for standards and open source having driven Autodesk's contributions to the Academy Software Foundation, USD and Materialx.