Summary
Chris Kemp is an accomplished technology leader, inventor, and entrepreneur with 14+ years building and scaling enterprise architecture and emerging-technology teams, most notably founding Salesforce’s Emerging Technologies group that drove major AI, blockchain, and data initiatives and influenced $175M in ACV. A serial innovator and co-author, he holds multiple patents, contributed to widely used AppExchange apps, and helped grow products and teams from concept to company-wide scale while earning repeated top-performer and inventor honors. He began hacking on a Tandy TRS-80 at age 10 and turned that curiosity into Vandelay Enterprises, a long-running consultancy that bridges hands-on engineering (LAMP, Java, Spring) with strategic go-to-market and R&D leadership. Chris also teaches Data Architecture and Governance at the University of Toronto, bringing practical, industry-proven frameworks into the classroom, and currently advises startups on product demos and customer development.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science Software Engineering Specialist, B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science Software Engineering Specialist at University of Toronto