Chris Econn

Chris Econn is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Guardrail. He has over 25 years of success in helping organizations build successful enterprises in the cloud worldwide. He has led several earlystage start-ups into acquisitions exceeding US$500 million in value.

While at Onica (later acquired by Rackspace in 2019,) Chris helped grow its early AWS consulting practice in Los Angeles into AWS's #1 non-GSI (Global System Integrator) partner, earning the top spot on the reputable IT-Channel CRN Global Fast Growth 150 as the fifth fastest-growing solution provider in 2019.

Chris has a deep technical background in cutting-edge application layer technologies and has experience leading mobile, IoT, ML, and Big Data teams. As a strategist and hands-on technology practitioner, Chris designed and implemented the world's first self-deployable Blockchain on AWS for the Algorand Foundation.

I have over 10 years of experience business succeed in the Cloud, and recently, with funding from the Algorand Foundation, I built Algorand's entire node infrastructure on GCP, AWS, and Azure.

I rand AWS's #1 non-GSI (Global System Integrator) partner, earning the top spot on the reputable IT-Channel CRN Global Fast Growth 150 as the fifth fastest-growing solution provider in 2019.

I graduated Duke University with Bachelor of Arts, class of 1996.