Chris Sherman

Chris Sherman is a business strategist and operational leader who thrives on helping companies advance through smart, disciplined approaches. With 25 years of senior leadership and management experience in the security space and a range of other industries and having led 2 startups, Sherman brings the kind of intuitive thinking and decisive action that a company like Netlok needs to move from promising start-up to successful enterprise.

Sherman brings directly relevant experience in the security industry through his work with Inter-Con Security Systems, one of the largest privately held security companies in the world. During his eight years with the company he served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. He worked with clients at the federal and state government levels, including the Department of State and a number of foreign government embassies. In addition, he served a variety of publically and privately-held companies across many different industries in eighteen countries.

He has worked in a number of corporate settings, each of which had a security and cybersecurity component, including Pacific Enterprises (now Sempra Energy), which was the parent of the largest natural gas distribution company in the U.S. He spent 13 years with the company serving in a variety of leadership roles including President of Pacific Energy, an alternative energy company; President of Pacific Enterprises Leasing Company; and he co-founded and served as President of Pacific Enterprises International, an international energy development company, created to invest in natural gas distribution, transmission and storage and related power opportunities.

Sherman also served as Executive Vice President of IndyMac Bank and was responsible for the Global Resources Group, which conducted the bank’s sizable offshoring programs, non-traditional workforce, and talent acquisition functions. From there, he joined InfrastructureWorld as Executive Vice President and Managing Director, where he led the company’s CleanTech business and financing and investing activities primarily outside the U.S. Sherman also spent 7 years at McKinsey & Company where he focused his work on corporate strategy.

Sherman holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Economics from Purdue University and a MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served on a number of corporate and non-profit boards. He is based in Los Angeles.