Primary Job Title Board Member, and Technical Advisor Primary Organization 
Tableau
Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Chris Stolte is Tableau Software's Chief Development Officer and is responsible for product strategy, product design and engineering.
Prior to co-founding Tableau, Chris spent six years researching the analysis and exploration of multidimensional databases at Stanford University, 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 and 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.
