Christine Thompson

Christine W. Thompson was a marketing executive at Apple Computer.

Background
Thompson was the worldwide product manager for VisiCalc, the first "killer app" for the Apple II.

Apple Computer
Thompson was hired as Apple employee #8276 on March 10, 1986. She led U.S. marketing for small businesses and left the company in May 1990. She was one of the last employees to qualify for an Apple Alumni Reunion that was limited to staff from the first 10 years of the company; the event was held on March 30, 2014 at San Jose, California.

After Apple
Thompson has been the managing director of Informing Arts since September 1994. In 1996, she co-authored a white paper for Apple about preparing for the World Wide Web.