Christine Hughes

Christine Hughes is CEO and co-founder of Achievement Plus, a private company that works with community organizations to provide affordable and convenient year-round tutoring for students K-12. She is also a venture partner with Avansis Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund.

Previously, Hughes was chairman of Highway 1, and senior vice president of marketing and business development at Secure Computing Corporation. She also worked in marketing for Novell, Inc., Xerox Corporation, Myriad Research (which she founded), the Gartner Group and Quantum Science Corporation, and spent 10 years as a consultant.

Hughes is on the board of directors of Infodata and Rightforce, and is on the advisory board for Whale Communications and PrivacyRight.

She holds a B.A. from San Francisco College for Women (University of San Francisco).