Summary
Chris Kemp is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14+ years of enterprise-grade software experience and a proven track record of turning emerging technologies into measurable business value. As founder and Senior Director of Salesforce's Emerging Technologies Solution Engineering, he built global teams in AI, ML, blockchain, and data architecture, driving $175M in influenced ACV and earning multiple Top Inventor and Peak Performers accolades. He is the author of Professional Heroku Programming and a seven-time patent holder, recognized for driving innovation at scale and invited to Salesforce's Inventor's Dinner. He also leads Vandelay Enterprises—his IT consulting firm started as a teenager, through which he helped a high-growth SaaS startup scale to 100K users and secure two rounds of venture capital funding—and teaches data architecture and governance at the University of Toronto, bridging hands-on engineering with strategic product enablement. Based in Old Toronto, he combines deep technical depth with business acumen to help organizations maximize ROI from Salesforce ecosystems, AI, and modern cloud architectures.
14 years of coding experience