Christine Heckart is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry with a track record of creating new categories in business and consumer markets. Her latest company, Xapa World, is a mobile app that helps companies grow the people that grow the business – think “Duolingo”, but instead of teaching a language, it’s a gamified app that teaches all of life’s critical softskills. Xapa is intended to be a powerful and lasting legacy to democratize leadership development.

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Prior to founding Xapa, Christine was CEO of Scalyr, Inc., a data analytics company acquired by SentinelOne. Christine held executive roles at Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, and Juniper Networks, and TeleChoice, Inc. and board roles at Lam Research, a Fortune 250 semiconductor equipment company, SiTime, 6sense, Contentful, Next Gen Directors Academy at Berkeley Haas Business School.

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Named one of the ten top strategic thinkers and 50 most powerful people in the technology industry before she was thirty, Christine has also received a variety of respected awards including the Fifty Most Powerful Women in Technology, 2016 Woman of Influence, Top 100 Silicon Valley Female Leaders, and 2020 Top Women in Cloud. Christine is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer at conferences, universities, and enterprise companies on topics that include advanced technology trends, conscious capitalism, engaging Millennials and Gen Z, category creation and leadership.

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Christine has three amazing adult children and lives with her husband of thirty six years, Doug, and their very large Bernese Mountain Dog, Tank. In her spare time she paints, writes, reads, is an avid sports fan, renaissance woman and adventurer.

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