FabFitFun, a women’s lifestyle brand, hired Chris Henley as vice president of engineering.
In this role, he will oversee a growing engineering team as the company continues to scale and expand its offerings. As part of this role, Henley will manage software development across multiple platforms and technologies including web, mobile, tablet, smart TV apps, augmented reality, physical products and subscription and recommendation systems.
“We are incredibly excited to welcome Chris to the FabFitFun family,” said Daniel Broukhim, co-founder and co-CEO. “He will help us continue building out our world-class engineering team as we fully personalize our customer experience and strive towards our vision of creating one of the most valuable and fun shopping memberships in the world.”
Prior to joining FabFitFun, Henley was founding CTO of Bay Area personalized nutrition company, Habit. Prior to Habit, he was VP of software for Athos and VP of engineering at Learnist (formerly Grockit). He also held positions as technical advisor at PlaySay, Inc.; VP of engineering at Roost; founding director of engineering/executive producer at SGN; senior solutions engineer at Apptis; senior engineer at AP Systems; analyst/engineer at Hughes Network Systems; and engineer at Cable & Wireless. Henley graduated from University of Maryland with a B.S. in computer science.
“FabFitFun is on the cutting edge of the data revolution for consumer product discovery,” said Henley. “I’m also eager to join the LA tech scene, a true rival to the Bay Area in terms of talent and entrepreneurship.”
