Christopher Uriarte

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Christopher Uriarte
Born Christopher Jon Uriarte
1975
New Jersey, United States
Nationality American
Alma mater Rutgers College, Rutgers University
Occupation Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Employers Retail Decisions
Home town Hoboken, New Jersey
Title Chief Technology Officer and Head of International Development
Website
http://www.cju.com

Christopher Uriarte (b. 1975) is an American-born computer scientist and entrepreneur employed by the London-based fraud prevention and payment processing company, Retail Decisions. In 2007, he was named one of the top 25 technology executives in the United States when he was awarded the CTO 25 Award by InfoWorld Magazine[1].


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[edit] Early Career

Uriarte was formally the Chief Architect and Managing Partner for The AdProtech group, a company formed by himself and two other partners while he was studying computer science and psychology at Rutgers University [2]. Much of the group's research focus in 1996 and 1997 dealt heavily in areas related to intellectual property and copyright protection on the Internet, in conjunction with their partners at Intellectual Protocols, LLC. During this time, the company developed techniques used to register dynamic content-driven websites with the United States Copyright Office. As a result of this research, Uriarte was granted the first certificate of copyright ever awarded to an Internet website, in its entirety. The copyright was awarded to the Golden Hamster Interactive website, which was a parody site created by Uriarte and his partner, Lewis Kurfist.

Prior to starting AdProTech, Uriarte was the Director of Technical Services for IDT Corporation, a major American-based network services provider and telephone services company[3].

From 2001 until 2005, he served as an adjunct to the Rutgers University Center for Applied Computing Technologies. [4].

[edit] Recent Career

Uriarte is the Chief Technology Officer at Retail Decisions, where he has developed technologies used to detect online credit card fraud since 1999. The technologies he has developed are used by large banks and retailers, including WalMart, KMart and Sears[5]. According to Retail Decisions, their technologies processed 12 billion of the approximately 140 billion credit card transactions that occurred globally in 2007[6].

Uriarte also sits on the Board of Directors of The Direct Response Forum [7] and Dynamic Vision Distributions [8].

[edit] Personal life

Uriarte is an avid snowboarder and was formally an advisor to the website Snowboard.com.[9]


[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards
  2. ^ Career Progression article about Uriarte on the redltd.com website.
  3. ^ Chris Uriarte's Professional Biography
  4. ^ Chris Uriarte's Official Biography
  5. ^ Chris Uriarte Profile on InfoWorld
  6. ^ Chris Uriarte's Professional Biography
  7. ^ Chris Uriarte's Professional Biography
  8. ^ Chris Uriarte: What I Actually Do for A Living
  9. ^ Autobiographical information from Chris Uriarte's personal website.

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