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John D. Chisolm

  • CEO, John Chisolm Ventures

John D. Chisholm, CEO of John Chisholm Ventures, has three decades of experience as entrepreneur, executive, and investor. A pioneer in online market research, in 1992 he founded, and for five years served as the CEO/Chairman of Decisive Technology (now a part of Google), a publisher of the first desktop and client-server software for online surveys. In 1997 he founded, and for a decade served as CEO/Chairman of CustomerSat (now a part of Confirmit), a leading provider in enterprise feedback management. Earlier in his career, he held engineering, marketing, and

management positions at GE, HP, and Xerox.

He is President Select of the MIT Worldwide Alumni Association, a member of the development committee of the MIT Corporation (board of trustees), and a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute. He serves on the advisory boards of the Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). He advises entrepreneurs through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service, the Thiel Foundation 20 under 20 Fellowship, and the Plug and Play Tech Centers of Silicon Valley. He has chaired the board of the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society and of the MIT Club of Northern California, served on the visiting committee of the MIT math department, and on the market research council of the Association for Interactive Media.

He holds BS & MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also the author or co-author of two US patents. An avid mountain climber, he has summited Mounts Rainier, Shasta, Whitney, St. Helens, and a number of live volcanoes in Chile and Indonesia.