Chris Sacca

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Christopher Sacca, is Head of Special Initiatives, at Google Inc. In that role, he is one of the primary strategists for global infrastructure, communications, and related product development. His most visible projects include Google's technology facility in The Dalles, OR and Google's efforts to provide San Francisco and Mountain View, CA with free citywide WiFi. In addition, Sacca is a frequent public speaker on the subjects of innovation, disruption, and free public access to the Internet. Currently, Sacca is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and serves on the boards of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and the Churchill Club.

1 Earlier Career
2 Education
3 Personal
4 External links

[edit] Earlier Career

Before joining Google, Sacca held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Sacca was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, Excite@Home, and Kleiner Perkins. Before arriving in Silicon Valley, Sacca lived and worked in Europe and Latin America.

[edit] Education

Sacca graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. Sacca also attended university at each of Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

[edit] Personal

Sacca was born May 12, 1975 in Buffalo, New York to Gerald Sacca and Dr. KC Sacca and grew up in Lockport, NY attending Lockport, NY public schools until college. His brother Brian Sacca is one half of the successful comedy duo Pete and Brian.