What People Say

"His style and mannerisms are well received and he's often the go-to-guy for all matters relating to enablement and even wider K8S questions - always available and ready to help out. Further, his output is always professional and detailed."

"Great knowledge, positive, wonderful cross functional collaborator, he also has the ability to bring the tech talk down a notch when presenting and explaining to non tech employees, so we can understand and own the topics. Great advocate!"

"CK is not afraid to ask the hard questions and even argue a bit! I love that. It's easy to just go along with what a leader or the group thinks, but CK intentionally tries to think the opposite of everyone else."

"CK is amazing at translating really complex technical problems into digestible bite sized stories. This is really important for our team and industry."

"Chris is always available to provide mentoring and assistance whenever needed, and he does that with a very positive attitude. He has helped me actively in producing some effective training material, despite my limited previous experience on the matter. It indeed is a pleasure to work with CK."

"High energy, motivation and engaging personality - you can tell CK has a real passion for his role and the expertise to be able to deliver."

"Chris Kranz knows how to engage with people and drive a conversation in a productive manner, and he also knows how to teach others to do the same. His deep understanding of Sysdig's solutions, technology and market, together with his generous personality makes him also a dependable and trustworthy interface for those ramping up or anyone that needs help to understand something about our solutions. He is a natural when it comes to building relationships."

"Chris is a true modern Renaissance man. He is a multi-hyphenate in the tech space. He is incredibly technical (don't let his humility fool you) and he's well versed in the realm of sales methodologies and enablement. He's also the best teammate. You'd never hear "that's not my job" from Chris. If anyone needs anything, he will do his best to help. Chris's work product is always superb. He is also an incredibly kind person. It's not always easy being a woman in tech. Chris made it very clear, from the first time we spoke, that he was in my corner. He's a true ally to the underdogs. He would be an asset to any team."

"Beyond his professional contributions, Chris is a great human being. He infused our workplace with a sense of camaraderie and respect, and his departure has left a significant void. He managed to strike a balance between being a leader, a mentor, and a friend, which is a rare quality. Even although we weren't always sharing the same opinions and views, I enjoyed our conversations as well as the help to see the things from different perspectives which helped me personally as well as from the business perspectives (I will miss our conversations, Chris!)."

"Chris was my manager when I joined Sysdig 4 years ago, and I must say also a mentor. We share the same vision of management, a mix of leadership, trust relationship, and excellence in execution. During the years spent together at Sysdig, I was amazed by Chris's ability to learn, read, have an opinion, about a vast horizon of subjects. When he picks a subject, you can be sure that he becomes an expert of it in a glimpse. He is one of the bests, if not the best, manager I had in my carrer."

"I worked with Chris for 2 years, reporting directly to him for one of those. He has a great experience both in value selling and in people management, being able to lead, mentor, teach and guide his team to the achievement of the objectives in a really balanced manner. His tireless dedication to the role and his organized approach make him one of the best professionals I ever had the chance to work with, and I'm sure Chris may represent an incredibly valuable resource for any company he will join."

"CK is an exceptional presenter who can effectively communicate new and complex concepts (sales methodologies, product, process, value enablement to name a few) to a diverse audience, including account executives, BDRs, customer success, and sales engineers."

"It was a great pleasure to work with Chris in the last 2 years. His ability to explain complex technical concepts in a simple and understandable manner is truly impressive. As EMEA SE Manager, Chris was responsible for leading a team of Sales Engineers, and under his leadership, the team consistently exceeded their targets. Most recently, as Director of Technical Enablement, Chris developed and delivered technical training programs for the company's sales and technical teams, ensuring that they had the skills and knowledge they needed to successfully sell and support the company's cloud security solutions. I am highly confident that Chris would be an invaluable asset to any organization."

"I've had the pleasure of working with Chris for the last four years. We worked closely together when he led the Sales Engineering Team in EMEA and more recently in his role in Sales & Technical Enablement. Chris is extremely passionate about everything he does and will go out of his way to help others. Chris did an amazing job of initially implementing and enabling the sales and technical sales teams with Command of the Message in EMEA. Outside of his role, he is someone I've often leant on for help, whether it be reviewing deals, account plans, messaging or providing coaching and advice for my team. With Chris' help I could be confident that that my team were clear in their understanding of an opportunity and what value a prospect / customer could extract from us. Chris is a real asset and is someone I can wholeheartedly recommend for any future role."

"Chris is a fantastic work colleague - to say he gets stuff done would be an incredible understatement. He is also very thoughtful and creative, a very inspirational person to have on your team. In front of customers, he creates confidence, is equally comfortable in both the technical and business domains, and is agile and able to think on his feet. Wholeheartedly recommended."

"It's very rare to work with someone whose brain is equal parts technical and creative, but that's CK! He is a master at collecting people's ideas and stories and he uses his technical expertise to create assets that are useful to sellers who may not know much about our industry. For instance, CK collaborated with sellers to collect customer stories and then broke these stories into bite sized pieces that sellers can use in their calls."

"I was privileged to be able to work with Chris over a number of years whilst he was at Kelway. Chris was and is an outstanding person to work with. As a mentor he helped shape my understanding of the industry and showed that understanding business drivers and application of a proven methodology are key to delivering solutions and designs to customers."

"Chris always was on hand to offer great support and advice through his knowledge, experience and abilities around cloud, virtualisation and storage. His management abilities and organisational skills are to be applauded for his first Kelway management position."

"Chris is a great mentor and thought leader whom I have had the fortunate experience to have worked with for 7 years now, it's fair to say that it is rare that you will come across such a standout talent. Not only is he an expert in his specialist areas but he also bring an extremely high level of integrity and is great at managing stakeholder expectations, whilst having the aptitude to grasp any technical or business requirement with his broad-minded, strategic mind-set. In the time that I have worked with him, I have always been impressed by his thorough, creative approach to his work. He is an outstanding advocate for improving the experience of IT Services, and for finding ways to make technology work better for business and consumer. Chris is adept as a public speaker with ability to inspire large audiences with his unending enthusiasm."

"I have worked with Chris on a number of occasions and found him to be very knowledgeable. Chris is good to work with and has an easy manner that make him very approachable. When we asked Chris to sanity check our environment his thorough knowledge of virtualization and storage helped us to implement changes for the better. I would recommend Chris for any position and I hope to work with him again in the future."

"Chris Kranz is a very capable and technically gifted individual. He's the only VMware VCDX certified specialist I know, but far from being a one trick pony, knows NetApp, EMC, SQL, Exchange, Windows AD and who knows what else! Chris is one of those people who is always willing to help others and the first to respond to his colleague's queries. He was very highly regarded within B2net by the technical and sales teams. He is one of the smartest people I have had the pleasure of working with and I have no doubt he will do very well in his new role."

"Chris has a technical ability second to none. I have worked alongside Chris for over 6 years and he has always had a zest for mastering new technical challenges. He is a great asset to our technical team and I have found working with him highly enjoyable."

"Chris was a key member to deliver a complex migration of servers and storage at the Manchester Evening News into a VMware estate with Netapp storage. Migration completed on time and on budget. Chris knowledge, reliability and direction was unvaluable before during and after the project. Easy to recommend such a great professional."

"Chris is a first rate IT consultant. A great person to work with whether you want him to sell technical solution, design them and above all implement them to the highest of standards. He has wide ranging technical skills and being at the forefront of ensuring that the company is at the cutting edge of his specialist technologies. I'm really pleased for Chris to have recently stepped into the elite group of people in the world to have gained a VCDX qualification from VMware following months and months of hard work and dedication. Furthermore, Chris is always fun to work with too which is a great added bonus, brining bags of fun and personality to every project. He is a great team player and always there to offer guidance and support to the most impossible of issues and risks we encounter with a tireless attitude to work to fix it personally at any hour of the day."

"In my experience, Chris has unparalleled knowledge of NetApp and VMware technologies. I know that when Chris is assigned to deploy a virtualisation solution I have designed that the project will go well. I get excellent feedback from customers where Chris has been involved - he also has the rare ability of being able to share his knowledge in a way that 'normal' people can understand!"

"Integrity, professional, knowledgeable and innovative are just a few words to describe Chris Kranz. He is a role model NetApp community member (was one of our initial Featured Members to help keep the bar high) and continues to enrich the community with his insights, solutions and overall expertise. Chris is one of the few members who has a dedicated blog within the community. I am consistently impressed with the way he explains and highlights technical topics in a refreshing candid manner. This type of openness is exactly what NetApp represents and appreciates in any partner relationship."

"Chris is an exceptional and gifted talent, it was a great loss to the IT Department when Chris moved to pastures new, and a considerable gain to his new employer! I would say Chris is an asset for any coprporation, and given the opportunity I would not hesitate in working alongside Chris again, Number 1 in my Headhunt List for the future."

"Chris has been one of my top members on the NetApp Community sense the start. He is always willing to help other members out and is one of the most knowledgeable NetApp experts out there. His great personality in person and offline make it a great experience to work with Chris."

"You only have to look at Chris's in-depth responses to the NetApp community to realize he is a technical guru. In person, Chris has the calmness of a sage which belies his Ferrari like mind, and the eloquence of the conversations to ensue makes him a Top Gear champion. Chris is an extremely competent consultant. I absolutely relish every opportunity to work with Chris"

"Chris' technical skills have rapidly grown within B2net and he is now considered as a subject matter expert in storage, virtualisation and many Microsoft technologies. Chris' skills and experience are used to help steer the direction of the technical team in these areas. Chris is also acting as an excellent and respected mentor for many of the junior members of the technical team."

"I have never met anyone quite like Chris before. With some IT professionals, a technology specialism is something they work hard to attain and maintain. Chris seems to have them all! He is a senior level technician across all disciplines, combined with an immensly likeable character. No wonder that customers and colleagues all treat him with a great deal of affection. Quite where he finds the hours in the day is beyond me. A fantastically hardworking, professional team player. Highly recommended!"