{"id":27,"date":"2006-04-06T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T00:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebizz.wordpress.com\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:48:33","slug":"about-chris-salazar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/about-chris-salazar\/","title":{"rendered":"About Chris Salazar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>The Beginning&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In June 2005, I began my career at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hds.com\">Hitachi Data Systems<\/a> in Santa Clara while attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scu.edu\">Santa Clara University<\/a> as a Junior. \u00a0During this time, \u00a0I found my first mentor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremiah Owyang<\/a>, who later became my manager and was instrumental in hiring me on full time at Hitachi Data Systems. \u00a0After a great 9+ years at Hitachi Data Systems,\u00a0I became the Digital Marketing leader at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VMware<\/a> in Palo Alto. I am currently Head of Digital Strategy &amp; Innovation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netgear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NETGEAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen first hand what it takes to create, manage and evangelize a complete social media program into the B2B market. \u00a0From <a href=\"http:\/\/chris-salazar.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogs<\/a> to wikis, I&#8217;m enthralled into the evolving ecosystem of storage, technology and social business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Speaking\/Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April\u00a02014: \u00a0<\/strong>Speaker at the Partner Technology Summit in Santa Clara at Hitachi Data Systems (Live)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May\u00a02013: \u00a0<\/strong>Speaker at the Partner Technology Summit in Santa Clara at Hitachi Data Systems (Live)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 2013:<\/strong> \u00a0Hitachi TrueNorth Partner Program (External Partner)<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 2013:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Hitachi TrueNorth Partner Program (Internal)<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 2013:<\/strong>\u00a0 Keynote speaker at the Partner TechTalk (Webinar ~500 attendees)<\/li>\n<li><strong>November 2012: \u00a0<\/strong>Speaker at the Partner Technology Summit in Santa Clara at Hitachi Data Systems (Live)<\/li>\n<li>Featured in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Tells-About-Blogging-Podcasting\/dp\/1419584359\" target=\"_blank\">What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(view <a href=\"http:\/\/chris-salazar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/im-going-to-be-featured-in-my-first-book-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In my spare time I am a disc jockey, Tae Kwon Do Martial Artist and enjoy all individual\/team sports. \u00a0I am a very active and out-going person who is always willing to try something new.<\/p>\n<p>Email: \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:chris@chris-salazar.com\" target=\"_blank\">chris@chris-salazar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beginning&#8230; In June 2005, I began my career at Hitachi Data Systems in Santa Clara while attending Santa Clara University as a Junior. \u00a0During this time, \u00a0I found my first mentor, Jeremiah Owyang, who later became my manager and was instrumental in hiring me on full time at Hitachi Data Systems. \u00a0After a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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