Chris Gaun

CEO

New York City, New York, United States16 yrs 8 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led product management for a $1B unicorn.
  • Spearheaded AI transformation initiatives at EY.
  • Built early IaaS cloud research at Gartner.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Consulting expert with a strong focus on AI and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Product ManagementGo-to-market StrategyProduct ManagementAi-agentic PlatformsKubernetesProduct MarketingCloud ResearchApplication Development

Other Skills

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareVirtualizationEnterprise ArchitectureSaaSData CenterIT StrategyStrategic PartnershipsSolution SellingBusiness StrategyBusiness IntelligenceLinuxDisaster RecoveryPerlFortran

About

I help grow companies and products.

Experience

Island

Vice President Product GTM Strategy

Feb 2026Present · 1 mo · New York, NY

  • Island, the platform for enterprise work, enables your teams in a world where AI agents, remote workers, and local tools have replaced the office as the center of how work gets done.
Software Product ManagementCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareVirtualizationEnterprise ArchitectureSaaS+14

Ey

Product Manager

Sep 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, NY · On-site

  • Joined the Nuvalence team post-acquisition to spearhead the evolution of EY’s core services and client offerings through AI-agentic platforms. With AI, consulting must shift from selling labor-intensive projects to agent-based products and outcomes.
  • Select Programs Led by Nuvalence at EY:
  • EY.ai agentic platform
  • EY's Future of Sales powered by AI
  • EY Parthenon AI transformation
AI-agentic platformsProduct ManagementClient offeringsConsulting

10x dad-ing

10x Dad-ing

May 2024Sep 2024 · 4 mos · Brooklyn, New York, United States · On-site

  • Waiting for EY paperwork to clear and join.
  • Making Dinner
  • Brushing hair
  • Reading stories
  • Lots of Bluey. Lots and lots and lots of Bluey

Solo.io

2 roles

Vice President of Product Growth

Nov 2023May 2024 · 6 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Head of Product Management

Dec 2020Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

  • Head of product at Solo.io, one of the 532 enterprise Unicorns in world. Joined around 20 people to lead product management and built into hundreds of users and $1B billion valuation. Solo.io products gives you control over your connectivity for containers, AI agents, and serverless functions.
  • Tenure
  • Over 10x revenue growth
  • Over 10x customer count
  • 10x Valuation to $1B. (One of the only 532 enterprise Unicorns in world)
  • 3 years from product launch to Unicorn status.
  • Over 95% renewals / high Net Dollar Retention
  • Reported to CEO and part of board meetings.
Software Product Management

D2iq

Director of Product Management (Acquired by Nutanix)

Nov 2017Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · New York, NY · Hybrid

  • Acquired by Nutanix and now "Nutanix Kubernetes Platform" (Forrester Leader and Gartner Challenger). Director of Product Management for all the Kubernetes platform products at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere). This work has included bootstrapping the new products from ideation through first customers and growth (later acquired by Nutanix).
  • Portfolio included:
  • Kubernetes and container management - https://www.nutanix.com/products/kubernetes-management-platform
  • Kaptain - AI / ML operations for Kubeflow (Tensorflow on Kubernetes)
KubernetesProduct ManagementCloud Computing

Apprenda inc.

Director of Marketing (Acquired by Atos)

Mar 2014Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos · New York, NY

  • Managed a team of incredibly talented marketing folks who helped build great messaging, product marketing and demand generation content for Apprenda and early Kubernetes community at large.
  • They have all gone onto having great careers elsewhere...
  • Partner Marketing (now VP channel sales at MongoDB)
  • Field Events (now field events at CNCF)
  • Communications (now Advocacy Manager at Oracle)
  • PR/AR and Corporate Communications (now Editorial Director at Co - U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
  • Senior and Junior Designers
MarketingProduct MarketingDemand Generation

Gartner

Senior Research Analyst

Aug 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Brookyn, New York

  • Built out the early IaaS cloud research at Gartner, including the first IaaS Magic Quadrant, with team of analyst now considered the very best in the industry - Lydia Leong, Doug Toombs. Added core cloud metrics such as performance and uptime to MQ methodology using the SaaS product I built and managed that was acquired by Gartner.
  • Gartner Team of the Year Award for 2012 IaaS Magic Quadrant (one showed at first Re:Invent keynote). (other team recipients include Lydia Leong, Kyle HIlgendorf and Doug Toombs).
IaaSCloud ResearchPerformance Metrics

Ideas international limited (acquired by gartner)

Research Analyst (acquired by Gartner)

Aug 2009Aug 2012 · 3 yrs

  • Acquired by Gartner. Analyst for new public IaaS market.
  • Designed and built applications to expand business to end user market. Gartner acquired the company (10x) and intellectual property, incorporating it into its Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) product line and SaaS products.
IaaSApplication Development

Education

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Physics

Hunter College

Physics

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