Christopher Benners

Christopher Benners began their career in 2007 as a Global IT Intern at Hewlett-Packard, where they assisted their manager in the creation of a daily status report and created an automated reporting solution. In 2008, they became an IT Operations Support Analyst at Hewlett-Packard, where they were responsible for inventory management and deployment in the Austin Next Generation Data Centers. Christopher also managed the ageing inventory and reported current dollar value and inventory level by age group. In 2011, they joined Blizzard Entertainment as a Lead, Strategic Sourcing - Technology Services, where they were responsible for developing RFx's covering Telecommunications, Datacenters, Public Cloud, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) services. Christopher also managed the procure to pay for technology services covering $50-100M in yearly spend. In 2020, they joined DATAMOB as Director - Strategy & Planning.

Christopher Benners attended The University of Texas at Austin from 2005 to 2008, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.