Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo is an American entrepreneur and former television personality. He is the founder and former CEO of LockerGnome, Inc., a now-defunct network of blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities which are now closed. He is best known as the former host of Call for Help, a call-in tech support show which, at the time, aired on TechTV. He hosted the show 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. The site later expanded to incorporate content syndicated from LockerGnome's blogs for IT professionals. A web forum for help with and discussions about technology was run from 2002 to 2015.

Pirillo is the author of several books, including Poor Richard's E-mail Publishing, ''Online! The Book'' with John C. Dvorak and Wendy Taylor.

In March 2015, Pirillo announced he was resuming Gnomedex, but providing more of a fair or festival experience than as a single-track conference.

In 2019, Pirillo joined Intel as a community advocate.