Strong leadership starts at the top. Our senior management team is a highly collaborative trio that leads by example, through regular first-person interaction with our clients, guidance of project team delivery and innovation with our partner application suites. Whether you're a client, a partner, or an employee, our leadership team is accessible, technically astute, and passionate about success.
Leadership
Leading By Example.
Chris Andrasick
CEO and Co-Founder
He began his career in his hometown of Honolulu working as a developer/slave for a little known start-up destined for even greater obscurity called Computer Visualizations. In the late nineties, he moved to San Francisco and joined Organic, Inc. During the four years that followed, he became the Director of Software Engineering in San Francisco and worked almost exclusively on e-commerce applications.
In 2002, he co-founded Tacit Knowledge. He has worked on digital initiatives with retailers such as Converse, Kodak, Barnes and Noble, Sony, Macys, Sephora, The Body Shop and Gap.
Chris has also spoken on topics such as online privacy, analytics, clickstream behavior in Web applications, XML use in systems integration, Web 2.0 strategies, social networks, and best practices in Agile development.
He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder that he's never really applied to anything beyond rocket-scientist jokes.
Scott Askew
CTO and Co-Founder
Scott Askew is the CTO and a founding partner of Tacit Knowledge. He has been developing enterprise applications since 1992. Prior to his work with Tacit Knowledge, Scott held senior management positions throughout the assorted services industries, most recently with Organic, Inc.
Scott has architected and delivered solutions – including site stabilization, architectural review and system integration work – for a number of clients including Sephora, Kodak, Wells Fargo, Urban Outfitters, Washington Mutual (Chase), Western Union, APL, Macy's, The Body Shop and Bill-Me-Later.
He has development experience on most J2EE platforms, including ATG, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and Jakarta Tomcat. His experience with relational databases includes Oracle, PostgreSQL, and DB2.
Chase Hill
COO
Chase joined Tacit Knowledge in May 2009 to open the London office and provide regional leadership for European operations. Relocated back to San Francisco in December 2010 to assume the role of Chief Operating Officer, Chase is now responsible for regional office oversight, finance & HR, sales operations, project delivery, and partner & client relations.
Before joining Tacit, Chase worked for Williams-Sonoma as a leader of the IT eCommerce project delivery organization for all six WSI brands and as a Regional Professional Services Director for ATG. He has over ten years of eCommerce consulting experience and project delivery oversight in the United States and in Europe with clients like Gap, The Body Shop, AT&T Wireless, Urban Outfitters, Intuit, France Telecom, Royal Mail, and John Lewis, among others. Before returning to the U.S. in 2000 to participate in eCommerce growth within the San Francisco area, Chase was a management consultant with Ernst & Young's Global Client Consulting group in South Africa and Singapore, working with energy clients including Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon-Mobil.
Chase holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Duke University.
Mike Hardy
CFO
Mike Hardy has been a partner at Tacit Knowledge since 2005, and he has served as Tacit's CFO since 2008. Mike is primarily responsible for finance and HR, as well Tacit's internal information systems.
Prior to his role as CFO, Mike served as a senior consultant at Tacit, and previously spent three years as the Director of Engineering at manageStar, Inc.
His background includes serving as both founder and CEO of H3C, Inc., as well as a consulting tenure with Cambridge Technology Partners. Mike has been a speaker at O'Reilly Open Source Conventions and is a practiced network administrator, with a deep understanding of the software, network and hardware interactions that make Tacit's client engagements successful.
Mike holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Rice University.