- Christopher Uriarte
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Christopher Uriarte Born Christopher Jon Uriarte
1975
New Jersey, United StatesNationality American Alma mater Rutgers College, Rutgers University Occupation Computer Scientist
EntrepreneurEmployer Retail Decisions Home town Hoboken, New Jersey Title Chief Technology Officer and Head of International Development Website http://www.cju.com Christopher Uriarte (born 1975) is an American-born computer scientist and entrepreneur employed by the London-based fraud prevention and payment processing company, Retail Decisions. In 2007, he was named one of the top 25 technology executives in the United States when he was awarded the CTO 25 Award by InfoWorld Magazine.[1]
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Early career
Uriarte was formally the Chief Architect and Managing Partner for The AdProtech group, a company formed by himself and two other partners while he was studying computer science and psychology at Rutgers University.[2] Much of the group's research focus in 1996 and 1997 dealt heavily in areas related to intellectual property and copyright protection on the Internet, in conjunction with their partners at Intellectual Protocols, LLC. During this time, the company developed techniques used to register dynamic content-driven websites with the United States Copyright Office. As a result of this research, Uriarte was granted the first certificate of copyright ever awarded to an Internet website, in its entirety. The copyright was awarded to the Golden Hamster Interactive website, which was a parody site created by Uriarte and his partner, Lewis Kurfist.
Prior to starting AdProTech, Uriarte was the Director of Technical Services for IDT Corporation, a major American-based network services provider and telephone services company.[3]
From 2001 until 2005, he served as an adjunct to the Rutgers University Center for Applied Computing Technologies.[4]
Recent career
Uriarte is the Chief Technology Officer at Retail Decisions (despite the fact that he is not listed as part the company's Executive Team on their website [1]), where he has developed technologies used to detect online credit card fraud since 1999. The technologies he has developed are used by large banks and retailers, including WalMart, KMart and Sears.[5] According to Retail Decisions, their technologies processed 12 billion of the approximately 140 billion credit card transactions that occurred globally in 2007.[3]
Uriarte also sits on the Board of Directors of The Direct Response Forum [3] and Dynamic Vision Distributions.[6]
Personal life
Uriarte is an avid snowboarder and was formally a contributor to the website Snowboard.com.[7]
Notes and references
- ^ 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards
- ^ Career Progression article about Uriarte on the redltd.com website.
- ^ a b c Chris Uriarte's Professional Biography
- ^ Chris Uriarte's Official Biography
- ^ Chris Uriarte Profile on InfoWorld
- ^ Chris Uriarte: What I Actually Do for A Living
- ^ Autobiographical information from Chris Uriarte's personal website.
External links
- Personal website includes personal and professional information.
- Personal blog
- Retail Decisions corporate website
- Chris Uriarte's professional profile on Linked In.
- Chris Uriarte's Professional Biography
- Chris Uriarte's profile from the InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards
- Slideshow profile featuring Chris Uriarte
Categories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Rutgers University alumni
- American businesspeople in retailing
- People from Hoboken, New Jersey
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