Chris is the CEO and Executive Chairman. Prior to AtScale, Chris co-founded and was a General Partner at Accomplice, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies. Chris has held leadership roles at tech startups such as Vertica, Acopia Networks and Arrowpoint Communications.
April 6, 2026
Best Data Governance Tools for Enterprises: 2026 GuideFor years, data governance was viewed as a background concern. Teams had bigger priorities to tackle and more pertinent problems to solve. Then AI agents came into the fold and started generating business decisions from inconsistent data, and suddenly, governance…
As AI agents move beyond the helpful copilot phase and into more powerful applications, enterprises are responding with global adoption. Agentic AI is everywhere, from analytics and finance to customer service and operations. It's changing how organizations go from asking…
March 30, 2026
Why AI Agent Governance is the Latest Priority for EnterprisesOver the past year alone, AI tools that once surfaced insights and handed them to a human for action have begun carrying out those actions themselves. Sixty-two percent of organizations are now experimenting with AI agents, according to McKinsey's latest…
March 27, 2026
AI vs. BI: Differences, What Changed, and Why Semantics Became CriticalEnterprise analytics was never just about data. It was about trust and confidence, getting the right people the right information so they could make intelligent decisions and keep things moving forward. The BI stack was made for that purpose, and…
March 26, 2026
AI Agents Are Transforming Compliance: Opportunities and Risks for Enterprise DataAutonomous AI agents, which are systems designed to accomplish tasks and goals independently without human oversight, have become integral across a wide range of use cases, spanning from customer service to supply chain management. It's no surprise that, as regulatory…
March 16, 2026
Using AI Agents for Data Analysis: How Autonomous Agents Are Changing AnalyticsFor a long time, enterprise analytics centered around building dashboards, running scheduled reports, and relying on the right person to ask the right question at the right time. That model is changing. Autonomous AI agents can now look through data…
January 6, 2021
Onward to 20212021 is going to be a lot like 2020 for reasons that we are all familiar with. In reading what people are saying, it sounds like we will have at least another year of this (pandemic). It is the reality…
July 2, 2020
A Capitalist’s Approach to Analytics & PerformanceOne of the most important concepts any business must consider when investing in technology infrastructure or applications is ROI (return on investment). Capital is one of the most precious commodities an organization has - and often one of the most…
April 13, 2020
Free Access to AtScale’s COVID-19 Cloud OLAP ModelIt has been a few weeks since my last note to the AtScale community about our commitment to customers and partners during this unprecedented time of COVID-19. First and foremost, the thoughts and prayers of the AtScale family are with…
March 23, 2020
COVID-19 and Remote Work – The Catalyst to Transform IT & Fully Embrace the CloudI’ve been hearing interesting perspectives on how COVID-19 is making some ongoing challenges even more relevant in recent days. Customers have been telling me about IT departments struggling to keep up with the infrastructure demands of having their entire workforce…
March 19, 2020
A Letter to Our Customers As We All Face COVID-19As we all navigate through the effects of COVID-19 with our families, friends, businesses and communities, we at AtScale are committed to maintaining a high degree of support for all of you. Our hearts go out to anyone who's been…
June 11, 2019
In search of $DATAIt’s been an incredible week for consolidation in the pursuit of analytical excellence. Google acquired Looker for roughly $2.6B, and today Salesforce acquired Tableau for nearly $16B. Today’s move is the combination of two juggernauts in their respective markets. Salesforce…
June 7, 2019
One CEO’s Perspective On Google’s Acquisition of LookerGoogle announced the acquisition of Looker yesterday for roughly $2.6BN. That is an incredible outcome for the Looker team and a savvy move for Google Cloud Platform. I want to congratulate both organizations and wish them and their customers success…