Chris Wellens earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.S. from the University of Southern California. She is the founder and CEO of InterWorking Labs, a software developer specializing in network and application management products.

As Director of Technology Marketing for the Interop Company, Chris provided oversight for the 5,000 node "InteropNet" as well as technology showcases.

Chris was a Product Line Manager and Software Product Manager for Sun Microsystems, and had specific responsibilities for the Network File System (NFS), desktop SPARC operating system and application software. She was also Group Manager of Market Development Engineering at Sun with responsibilities for the porting of third-party hardware and software products to the Sun environment.

Chris has published a number of papers and articles on networking topics, and is currently completing her first book, with the working title: the Complete Software Product Marketing Guide.

Chris lives in Santa Cruz with her husband, Karl Auerbach and cats--Chutney, Ryekrisp, and Moliere.