Chris Hyams is CEO of Indeed, leading Indeed’s mission to help people get jobs. He is a Board Member at DivInc, a technology accelerator whose mission is to generate social and economic equity through entrepreneurship, and at Huston-Tillotson University, an Historically Black University and Austin’s oldest institution of higher learning. Chris started his career working in adolescent addiction recovery, and then as a high school Special Education teacher in the Vermont public school system. After working as a musician in Los Angeles, he went back to school to study Computer Science. Chris worked as a software engineer and later became VP of Engineering at Trilogy Software. Prior to Indeed, he was Founder & CEO of B-Side, a technology platform for independent film analytics, marketing, and distribution. Chris earned an A.B. in Architecture from Princeton University and a Masters in Computer Science from Rice University. He lives in Austin, TX.
