Chris Panaro
Managing Director, Contracts

Mr. Panaro has more than 15 years of experience in contract drafting, negotiation, and management, with expertise in information technology service agreements. Mr. Panaro leads Fortera's development of best practice contracts utilized by its clients to manage and transfer the risk of systems integration projects.

Before joining Fortera, Mr. Panaro was national practice manager for e-Commerce at Actium, an IT systems integrator and a subsidiary of Modis Solutions. Before Actium, Mr. Panaro worked at ICON Solutions, a custom software development firm, where he developed the sales and marketing strategy and managed the implementation of marketing initiatives for the company.

Also, Mr. Panaro served as vice president of business affairs for Money Mailer, Inc., a direct-mail marketing franchise headquartered in Southern California. During his tenure with Money Mailer, Mr. Panaro was responsible for domestic and international licensing, prospectus drafting, and registration in the United States, buy/sell contracts, regulatory compliance, litigation and arbitration management, and overall corporate business affairs.

Mr. Panaro has a BS in Law and a Juris Doctor from Western State University in Fullerton, California.