Chris Townsley is Limelight Networks - Director of European Sales in the United Kingdom and is responsible for managing existing and establishing new accounts in EMEA. Chris has over 20 years of global sales experience and prior to joining Limelight Networks in September 2007, Chris held sales positions with a number of media and technology companies in Europe and Australia including VitalStream, Gomez Europe, Computacenter UK and EMC. Most recently, Chris was Sales Manager with VitalStream where he led the United Kingdom sales team and helped open the Amsterdam data center. Chris has an established sales record having directed teams of all sizes, built sales teams from the ground up to service various vertical markets and has also developed account strategy, partner engagement and relationship management best practices for his worldwide teams. Chris holds a degree from Scots College, Wellington, New Zealand.