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Chris Tolles
VP of Sales and Marketing, Topix.net
Spoke Profile
Tolles is a marketing executive with extensive Internet and software industry experience. Prior to Topix.net, Chris co-founded Spoke Software, where he was vice president of marketing. Before Spoke, Chris was director of marketing for products at AOL Music, Netscape Search and the Open Directory Project. In 1998, Chris co-founded NewHoo, later acquired by Netscape and renamed the Open Directory Project -- the Web directory behind AOL, Netscape, Google, and Lycos. Between 1990 and 1998, Chris held sales and marketing positions at Sun Microsystems, including direction of all marketing for the network security product group, which provided encryption, firewall, and authentication solutions. Chris has degrees in Computer Science and Economics from the University of California at San Diego, where he was a Warren Scholar and recipient of the Michael Addison Award for his thesis on the Information Economy.