Chris Twogood is Senior Vice President of Product and Services Marketing for Teradata Corporation. He is responsible for marketing Teradata products (database, utilities, and platform) and Teradata services (professional and customer services), plus the technical field sales support teams. Chris has 25 years of experience. Chris has extensive experience in the computer industry specializing in data warehousing, decision support, customer management, and appliance platforms. He started his career with NCR in retail point-of-sale (POS) solutions and then moved to AT&T to manage channel development and strategic partners. Then Chris joined Teradata. At Teradata, he has had roles that span strategy, application definition, marketing, product requirements/management, platform solutions, and product marketing. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University at Long Beach with an emphasis in marketing.