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 Chris Younger
Chris Younger, CEO and majority owner of Silvercloud, is a graduate of Harvard Law School with more than a decade of experience in executive management, marketing, sales, mergers/acquisitions, and law. Before founding Silvercloud, Chris helped found and was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Expanets, the nation’s largest and leading provider of converged communications solutions with revenues over $1.2 billion. During his tenure with Expanets, Chris also managed the acquisition of 27 businesses, ranging in size from $2 million to over $1 billion in annual revenues, and was instrumental as President and COO in helping Expanets complete a significant turnaround during a turbulent time in the communications industry, leading to its acquisition by Avaya in late 2003. As part of his involvement in the communications industry, Chris is also the Founding Chairman and a Board Member for the Enterprise Communications Association, a previous board member and advisor to RazorLynx, a Portland-based developer of message brokering software for networked devices, an advisory board member for Popular Telephony, a French developer of a groundbreaking peer-to-peer, serverless voice over IP technology, and previously served as a board member for both the Telecommunications Industry Association and the Multimedia Telecommunications Association. Chris has also acted as an advisor to Propellant Fracturing and Stimulation, Inc., an oil services and technology firm in Denver, and has been a featured speaker at TMC's Internet-Telephony Conference, Cisco's Small and Medium-Sized Business Education Seminar, and the Callahan Annual Master's Executive Conference, among others.
Prior to his work with Expanets and its parent company, Northwestern Growth Corporation, Chris worked as a corporate and securities attorney with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a pioneering law firm in Silicon Valley, representing several private and public technology companies. He started his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse E. Eschbach, Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, where he authored several published opinions. Chris is a summa cum laude graduate of Miami University in Ohio, and was named one of Denver’s “Top 40 Under 40” business leaders by The Denver Business Journal. During his tenure at Harvard, Chris was the Managing Editor for the Harvard Law Review, Volume 106.
In his free time, Chris coaches his kids' soccer teams, spends time with his three children, golfs, mountain bikes and competes in triathlons, including the 2004 Florida Ironman, the 2006 Wisconsin Ironman and the 2007 Coeur D'Alene Ironman.
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