Alain Chuard is a Swiss entrepreneur and former professional snowboarder living in Palo Alto, California.

[1][2][3] He is best known as the founder and Chief product officer of Wildfire Interactive, the social media marketing technology company acquired by Google in July 2012.

[2] After graduating from Macalester College, he spent two years working as a financial analyst for Salomon Smith Barney in New York City.

[6] While getting his MBA, he also built an online booking and CRM software called IncFuel Corp.[7] In the summer of 2007, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners in Boston.

[15][16] In August 2020, it was reported that the self−funded edtech startup Prisma, created by Chuard and his wife Victoria Ransom, would launch on 8 September 2020, for 40 U.S.