Christopher Burry, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, US Market Access Center Inc. and Global Ambassador, UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology joined StrategEast’s Global Minds Initiative Advisory Board.
Christopher Burry has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry and as a serial entrepreneur. His background covers Enterprise Architecture, software development, infrastructure technologies, operating systems, methodology development and IT operations.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Burry has found multiple companies in the software and services sectors. He has served as a coach and mentor to entrepreneurs since 2005.
Mr. Burry is a Global Ambassador and Adjunct Faculty at The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley where he teaches classes on entrepreneurship and mentors students.
In addition to his work at UC Berkeley, Mr. Burry is currently the co-CEO at the US Market Access Center. In this role, he teaches classes and workshops, coaches and mentors entrepreneurs on a global basis and speaks at international conferences. Over the last 10 years, he has trained and mentored well over 2,500 startups in over 40 countries. USMAC’s alumni have raised over $2.5B in capital and collectively are worth in excess of $8B USD.
While at USMAC, Mr. Burry has led the company’s engagement with the Bangladeshi Ecosystem.
In 1999, he co-founded Avanade (a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft). During his ten years at Avanade, Mr. Burry was a member of the Global Leadership Team and served in a variety of leadership roles including, Chief Information Officer, and Global Practice Director for Infrastructure Collaboration and Security.
Prior to joining the USMAC, Mr. Burry spent over nine years at Avanade, holding a wide range of senior leadership roles. He was a member of the founding team and was the first CIO of the company. During his time as CIO, Avanade grew from a single, small location to having operations on 17 cities in 12 countries around the global with 3 geographically dispersed data centers. Mr. Burry led this global expansion effort.
As a Technology Fellow, Mr. Burry helped define Avanade’s overall strategy, technical direction, “Go to Market” solutions, and delivery accelerators.
Prior to joining Avanade, Mr. Burry held various positions at Andersen Consulting, EDS, and other organizations.
