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Chris Surdi

Chris Surdi

Christopher Surdi is CEO of Global Education Program or GEP, Inc. The company provides professional development tours for international groups in Silicon Valley. Tour groups have included delegations from Vietnam, Europe, Estonia, Russia, Singapore and China. Their educational programs have included visits to Sun Microsystems, Google, Orange-France Telecom, Cisco, T-Ventures and dozens more. Additionally, delegates met with officials from the City of San Jose, universities such as Stanford and San Jose State University, non-profit and for University and Stanford.

Chris has extensive knowledge in start-up environments with many entrepreneurial achievements is an experienced leader. In 2002, Mr. Surdi launched an internet company called Phastcash.com which returned its investment in nine months. He has also won a number of awards in entrepreneurship at both the local and national level.