Chris Neumann

Chris Neumann is a General Partner at Panache Ventures, with a distinguished career that includes serving as a Visiting Lecturer at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and as an Associate for Creative Destruction Lab across multiple streams. Neumann has significant entrepreneurial experience, having founded Commonwealth Ventures, which facilitated over $100 million in capital for international startups before being acquired by Panache Ventures. Additional roles include advisory positions, leadership in a specialized accelerator program at 500 Startups, and the founding of DataHero, a company that was acquired by Cloudability. Neumann's early career includes significant positions at Aster Data and Motorola. Neumann holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University.