After being the chief marketing officer at three public companies, Christopher Lochhead retired at 38. Today he is a part-time strategy advisor. Christopher started his first company at age eighteen. Since then he has been an executive in four start-ups and has been an officer of three publicly traded technology companies: Mercury, Scient and Vantive.
Mercury Interactive Corporation, a $1B enterprise software company, was acquired by Hewlett Packard in November 2006 for $4.5B. The company was the leader in Business Technology Optimization software - now HP is. He helped grow the company from approximately $400m to over $1B from 2002 to 2006. In 1998 Lochhead helped start the Internet consulting firm Scient. They achieved $21M in first year sales, and $156M in its second year. Scient built a dominant brand, had a successful IPO, and became an early Internet leader. Lochhead joined Vantive, a customer relationship management (CRM) software company, in 1996 and helped the company grow from $25M in sales to $117M in two years. Prior to Vantive, Lochhead was the president of CRM consultant Always an Adventure International.
After being the chief marketing officer at three public companies, Christopher Lochhead retired at 38. Today he is a part-time strategy advisor. Christopher started his first company at age eighteen. Since then he has been an executive in four start-ups and has been an officer of three publicly traded technology companies: Mercury, Scient and Vantive.
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