Chris Hutchins

Chris Hutchins, currently Senior Manager of Business Development at San Francisco-based SimpleGeo, is passionate about technology, rock climbing and startups. In his previous life, he was an investment banker at Allen & Co. and a management consultant at the Monitor Group. After being laid off in 2008, he gave up on the corporate world, founded a social learning community called LaidOffCamp and started working as freelance consultant for several Internet companies. In 2009, he spent seven months travelling around the developing world, learning about life, culture and mobile technology. He currently resides in the Mission in San Francisco, where he’s on an endless quest for the best Mexican food.