Chris Sacca

Christopher Sacca is a venture investor and company advisor focusing on consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups.

Most recently, Chris was Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, he headed up alternative access and related product development. His most visible projects include Google's 700MHz spectrum initiatives, the company's technology facility in The Dalles, OR and Google's free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA. Chris is a frequent public speaker on the subjects of innovation, disruption, and consumer access to the Internet. Currently, Chris is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and serves on the board of the Churchill Club. Chris was also recently recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Chris was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, Excite@Home, and Kleiner Perkins. Before arriving in Silicon Valley, Mr. Sacca lived and worked in Europe and Latin America.

Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. Chris also attended university at each of Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

Chris lives in San Francisco and is an avid Pacifica surfer, San Mateo kitesurfer, and Lake Tahoe skier.