Chris Pirillo is an American entrepreneur and former television personality. He is the founder and former CEO of LockerGnome, Inc., a network of technology-focused blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities that operated from 1996 to 2015. Pirillo is perhaps best known as the former host of Call for Help, a call-in tech support show which, at the time, aired on TechTV from 2001 to 2003.

Career

LockerGnome began as a technology mailing list in 1996, offering tips and tricks for operating systems and applications, software suggestions (with an emphasis on public domain and shareware software), and web site recommendations. Over time, the site expanded to incorporate content syndicated from LockerGnome's blogs for IT professionals. The associated web forum for help with and discussions about technology operated from 2002 to 2015. Pirillo has authored several books, including Poor Richard's E-mail Publishing, ''Online! The Book,'' the latter co-authored with John C. Dvorak and Wendy Taylor. In March 2015, Pirillo announced plans to revive Gnomedex, a technology conference he had previously organized, with the intention of transforming it into more of a fair or festival experience rather than as a single-track conference. In 2019, Pirillo joined Intel as a community advocate.