# Chris Hexton

> Chris Hexton is the Sydney-based CEO and co-founder of Vero, customer engagement software founded with childhood friend James Lamont in 2012. After leaving PwC and building a consulting business, he moved from an unsuccessful invoicing idea to behavior-based email, grew Vero through content and customer feedback, and raised A$4 million from Square Peg Capital in 2017.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Vero
- **Organizations:** Vero, Semblance, PwC, Startmate
- **Education:** University of Technology Sydney
- **Known for:** Co-founded and led Vero, a customer engagement software business founded in 2012., Bootstrapped Vero for approximately five years before its 2017 venture round., Secured A$4 million from Square Peg Capital in 2017.

## Career timeline

- **2006-2011** — Worked at PwC; described a cadetship combining work and university study.
- **2011** — Co-founded software consulting business Semblance with James Lamont.
- **2012** — Entered Startmate with invc.me, abandoned the invoicing product, and co-founded Vero. Its first email was sent in June.
- **2015** — Reported more than 420 Vero customers, 85,000 monthly blog readers and a team of eight.
- **2017** — Vero raised A$4 million from Square Peg Capital.
- **2021** — Vero Connect launched in the second half of the year, according to Hexton’s 2023 interview.
- **2025** — Publicly described returning to weekly writing for Vero.
- **2026** — Discussed AI tools, Vero’s MCP interface and its marketing repository in an August interview.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and led Vero, a customer engagement software business founded in 2012.
- Bootstrapped Vero for approximately five years before its 2017 venture round.
- Secured A$4 million from Square Peg Capital in 2017.
- Helped develop warehouse-connected email software following extensive customer discovery.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — An August 31 interview described Vero’s MCP interface, customer demand for working through AI assistants, engineering use of AI tools and a repository of marketing content.
- **2025-09** — Hexton said he had resumed writing one thought piece per week for Vero.

## Links

- Website: https://www.getvero.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chexton/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/chexton
- GitHub: https://github.com/chexton

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Last updated: 2026-10-11