A software industry professional with over 15 years' experience in technology management and marketing, with a focus on search and knowledge management, Christopher Walton is responsible for product direction and strategy at X1.

Prior to joining X1 in 2004, Christopher spent more than six years and held a variety of senior product management roles at Vignette Corp., where he was responsible for the integration, process, and analysis product lines. Additionally, he was responsible for the virtual repository, taxonomy, and search services within Vignette V7, the company's flagship content management product suite.

Prior to Vignette, Christopher was with Netscape Communications Corp., where he managed a variety of groundbreaking products, including Netscape Navigator (Gold), Netscape Media Server, and Netscape Enterprise Server, the company's flagship Web application server.