Chris Stolte, Tableau Software's Chief Development Officer, is
responsible for product strategy, product design and engineering.
Prior to co-founding Tableau, Chris spent six years at Stanford
University researching the analysis and exploration of
multidimensional databases, culminating in the Polaris system which
was the basis for Tableau's first products. This research resulted in
fourteen landmark research publications and two large-scale
visualization systems. Chris was also the CTO and co-founder of
BeeLine Systems, a visualization software company that developed a
revolutionary map rendering system, which was purchased by Vicinity
Corporation (NASDAQ: VCNT). Chris is a co-inventor on five software
patents related to information visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer
Science from Simon Fraser University.