Christian Gheorghe is the CEO and Founder of Tidemark, the first enterprise analytics company built for the cloud and a mobile first experience.

Christian grew up in Communist Romania.

After migrating to America he started working as a limo driver and construction worker.

He eventually became a computer scientist and an entrepreneur.

^[1]Christian taught himself English by listening to the lyrics of Pink Floyd.

^[2]He taught himself to code by hacking into video games.

Tidemark is his fourth successful startup, having sold all of his previous ones, including his third one, OutlookSoft, to SAP in 2007 for about $500 million.

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Gheorghe is the key driver of Tidemark’s product development and the organization of his team.

Prior to writing a single line of code, Gheorghe dedicated nine months to surveying Fortune 1000 companies and discovered that in many cases business analytics solutions were ineffective.

The resulting Tidemark apps have an elegant consumer interface, making it easy for business executives to manage from any mobile device.

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