Chris Wade

Chris Wade is Co-Founder and CTO of Itential, responsible for guiding the innovation and development of the company’s flagship infrastructure orchestration platform. He co-founded Itential in 2014 to accelerate network automation adoption and transform how enterprises operate complex infrastructure. Chris is a long-time advocate of automation and is now focused on the next evolution: agentic operations, where AI agents can reason, plan, and act while changes remain trusted, gove
ed, and auditable. Under his technical leadership, Itential is advancing agentic orchestration that blends reasoning intelligence with deterministic automation to safely scale outcomes across cloud, network, and hybrid environments.