Chris Houghton
Founder & CEO at Beacon CRM
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Houghton is a founder and CEO with 13 years of product and technical leadership experience, currently scaling Beacon, a CRM designed to transform how charities operate. He combines hands-on engineering and customer-facing roles from earlier stints at tray.io and Qubit with a strong background in ecommerce personalization and real-time integrations from Sauce Apps. Chris has a track record of building mission-driven technology—examples include FB Social Reader and Search2Give—that tie product growth to social impact. Based in London and recently advancing his strategic expertise with an Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge, he blends startup grit with formal business training. Notably, he moves fluidly between technical implementation and partner success, which helps Beacon stay tightly aligned to charity users’ operational needs.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge Business SchoolBSc Management Sciences, BSc Management Sciences at University of SouthamptonA Levels Maths [A] Further Maths [A] Physics [A], A Levels Maths [A] Further Maths [A] Physics [A] at Shrewsbury School
English
Stackoverflow
707reputation
25kreached
25answers
16questions
facebook-graph-api
top-5%
Github Skills (173)
parser10
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
drag10
db210
material-ui10
epic10
csv-parsing10
heroku10
sortable10
portable10
javascript10
react-components10
mui10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
trayio-connectors/marketo
May 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 27 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 6 months
apitrayconnectormarketocryptocurrency
chrisjhoughton/react-backbone-controllerview
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 day
reactbindbackbonereact-componentstypescript
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