Jonathan Christensen

Current

• General Manager at Skype
• General Manager - Media Platform at Skype

Past

• President and CEO at Camino Networks Inc.
• CTO and VP of Products at FaceTime
• Group Program Manager at Microsoft

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Education

• University of Hawaii at Manoa
• University of California, Santa Barbara

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Jonathan Christensen’s Summary

Jonathan Christensen has more than a decade of experience s building IP communications businesses at world class organizations such as Skype, Microsoft, and Time Warner. He is a successful entrepreneur, having founded, lead, and sold Camino Networks to eBay / Skype in 2006. At Skype, Jonathan leads Research, Core Technology / Infrastructure development and the Audio, and Video engineering teams. At Microsoft Christensen lead program management for the company’s Real Time Communications group and delivered the first generation of its SIP based products. Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation, Christensen held management positions at Time Warner, pioneering commercial Internet services including access and hosting offerings. While at Time Warner, Jonathan was instrumental in bringing to market the first generation of consumer broadband services. Mr. Christensen has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Society from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Jonathan Christensen’s Specialties:

Engineering and business management in: Telecommunications, Networking, Enterprise Software, Voice over IP, Instant Messaging, Online multi-media, Audio Codecs, IP based Video, Consumer Electronics, Online Services, Peer-to-peer systems. Frequent speaker at industry events including RSA, N+I, VoiceCon, SuperComm, VoN, Inbox, eComm, ITExpo....