Chris Denend

Who is Chris Denend?

As vice president of engineering at Prosper, Mr. Denend oversees all

product management and software development that comprise the Prosper

borrower and lender experience. Prior to joining Prosper, he spent more

than 7 years in executive engineering roles at Macromedia, a leader in

multimedia authoring and web development software. Specifically, he

managed the engineering team for Contribute, a web site editing tool

for the consumer market. Under his leadership, Contribute won several

ease of use design awards. He was also a manager on the Dreamweaver and

UltraDev teams. Dreamweaver is the leading professional visual HTML

authoring tool. Mr. Denend earned a BA in electrical engineering from

Stanford University.