Chris Hyams is the former CEO of Austin-based Indeed, the world’s leading job site. This fall he is teaching an honors class on responsible AI as a visiting lecturer at Huston-Tillotson University, an Historically Black University and Austin’s oldest institution of higher learning. He sits on the boards of Huston-Tillotson and DivInc, a technology accelerator whose mission is to generate social and economic equity through entrepreneurship. Chris is an advocate for responsible AI, justice and equity, the transformative power of education and hiring for skills over pedigree. Before joining Indeed, Chris was the founder and CEO of B-Side, a technology platform for independent film discovery and distribution. He also served as vice president of engineering at Trilogy Software. His career began in adolescent addiction recovery and as a special education teacher in Vermont public schools. He later worked as a musician in Los Angeles before returning to school to study computer science. Hyams holds an architecture degree from Princeton University and a master’s in computer science from Rice University. He lives in Austin.
