Chris Payne is CEO and Co-Founder of NetNeural, Inc. He spent 8 years at Kroger Technology R&D (2016-2024) working on enterprise infrastructure, IoT, and AI deployments across 2,700+ retail locations. He is the sole developer of Sentinel, NetNeural's environmental monitoring platform, combining modular sensor hardware with a cloud Intelligence layer to help food retail, healthcare, cold-chain, and industrial operators meet compliance requirements like FSMA 204. Chris brings deep experience in hardware manufacturing partnerships, embedded firmware, wireless connectivity, and scaling IoT from prototype to thousands of field units.