Chris Lalka

Chris Lalka is Chief Strategy Officer of Collaborative Systems Integration. Previously, he was Architecture and Technology IT Architect for ExxonMobil where he worked for 36 years. As IT Architect, he was responsible for introducing new IT technologies, providing IT business architecture oversight, establishing virtual technical support teams for Global Manufacturing and Fuels Marketing, and designing ExxonMobil’s first global Windows and SQL/S practices. Prior to his tenure in IT, Chris worked in process control and process engineering organizations where he conducted research in realtime artificial intelligence applications, developed dynamic simulations, and built mathematical models and nonlinear optimizers for petrochemical processes.

Chris has BS and MS degrees from New York Polytechnic University and an MBA from Rice University.