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Early Life and Education
John D. Chisholm grew up in Jupiter, Florida. Chisholm showed an early interest in math and science writing a paper in high school entitled: “A relationship between Pascal’s Triangle and the coefficients of equations with altered roots”. In 1971, Chisholm began studying at MIT and as a sophomore began a joint bachelors-masters work-study program. During this program Chisolm spent multiple semesters working at General Electric doing FORTRAN programming for finite element analyses as well as conducting Monte Carlo simulations. After completing this program in 1976, Chisholm received bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Two years later, in 1978, Chisholm would receive his MBA from Harvard.

Business Career
After receiving his MBA, Chisholm began working as a product manager for Hewlett Packard in Cupertino, CA. Later he left HP to begin working for a startup called GRiD Systems which was developing the first clamshell laptop computer.

In 1990, Chisholm founded the John Chisholm Group, a strategic marketing consultancy for computer and software companies, and in 1992, Chisholm founded Decisive Technology Company which produced the first software for email surveys. Decisive Technology Company was acquired by MessageMedia in 1999, which was acquired by DoubleClick, which was acquired by Google.

In 1997 he founded and served as CEO/chair of and enterprise feedback management company called CustomerSat. In March 2008 CustomerSat was acquired by MarketTools. Chisholm would serve as Executive VP of MarketTools and General Manager of its CustomerSat unit until 2009. MarketTools CustomerSat was later acquired by Confirmit.

In 2013 Chisholm cofounded Pyze, a mobile intelligence platform provider, with former CustomerSat CTO Dickey Singh and Prabhjot Singh. Chisholm is chair of the company.

Non-Profit, Writing, and Research
Chisholm, a donor to the Seasteading Institute, was added to its board of directors in 2010. In 2010 he was also inducted as a trustee to the Santa Fe Institute. Chisholm served as president and chair of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association from 2015-16, and he currently serves on the Association’s board of directors.

On October 4, 2015 Chisholm published his first full length book: "Unleash Your Inner Company".

Chisholm is author or co-author of two patents:, and.