Chris Lee

Chris is a seasoned product and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience shaping mobile and consumer technologies used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. For the past decade, he has focused on the smart home and IoT space and now serves as Head of Product and Partnerships at Apple, where he leads strategy, roadmap, and ecosystem partnerships. Prior to Apple, Chris drove Facebook’s efforts to expand global connectivity through satellites and solar-powered planes.

Earlier in his career, he was a founding member of the Firefox OS team at Mozilla, where he led global product and design teams defining the platform vision and user experience, and helped pioneer Yahoo!’s first HTML5-based Mail interface for the original Apple iPhone. Chris holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.