Chris Tolles is the senior marketing manager for Netscape's Open Directory Project - a community developed Web directory that powers numerous portal sites including Netscape, AOL, Lycos, Hotbot, AltaVista, AT&T; WorldNet and others. The Open Directory Project came out of NewHoo, which was acquired by Netscape in 1998, where Chris was co-founder and Vice President of marketing. Prior to NewHoo, Chris was at Sun Microsystems, most recently heading up marketing for the security products division. Chris graduated from UCSD with degrees in Computer Science and Economics, and was the recipient of the Michael J. Addison award for his honors thesis on the structures of the electronic information industry.