Chris C. Kemp

Chris C. Kemp (born 1977, in Buffalo, NY) is currently Chairman of NASA's Web Council and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining NASA, Chris helped create a number of businesses including Netran, Classmates.com, and Escapia.
Early Life & Career
Chris C. Kemp, 32, began his career at the age of 15 working at an Apple Computer store. While studying Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Kemp took an internship at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems. Before graduating, he founded Netran, a company that launched the online grocery shopping service for Kroger, the world’s largest grocery store chain. Kemp served as CEO and President of Netran from 1997-2000. At the age of 21, Kemp sold Netran to Tagnetics and joined Classmates.com as its Chief Architect.
In 2002, Kemp launched Escapia, a company he conceived after trying to rent a beach house on the Internet. Kemp served as CEO and President of Escapia from 2002-2006.
Chris joined NASA Ames in 2006 as Director of Strategic Business Development. In this role, he negotiated a partnership with Google.
Since 2008, he serves as Chairman of NASA's Web Council and Chief Information Officer for NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. As CIO of a NASA field center, he is responsible for most of the IT infrastructure at NASA Ames (networks, datacenters, systems, etc.), and several NASA-wide services, including the NASA Security Operations Center (SOC).. He is also spearheading the Cloud Computing initiative.
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