For over 10 years, Chris has served as a thought leader in emerging consumer technologies – as an advisor to large and small companies, a consultant to venture capital firms, a research analyst, entrepreneur and teacher.

Previously, Chris served as a Group Vice President and leader of the Marketing and Business Strategy Practice at Forrester Research, the worldwide leader in emerging technology research. At Forrester, he led a team of 65 analysts covering the impact of technology on television, music, sports, mobile devices, games, business information, newspapers, marketing (email, promotions, sponsorships), home networking, Internet Access, and consumer electronics -- serving over 1,500 clients across the globe. His specific expertise focused on digital business models for media companies —online subscriptions, advertising, and commerce — as well as social computing, the growing trend of peer-to-peer applications and services like social networks, blogs, mashups, widgets, podcasting, and P2P content distribution. Over his 9 years with Forrester, he authored or edited over 100 reports, including: Social Computing: How Networks Erode Institutional Power And What to Do About It; Teens Take the Lead on Social Computing; Reinventing the Marketing Organization; The Marketing Resource Shift; The Real Potential of Internet Video; Broadband Creates A Content Business Model; Migrating Users from Free to Paid Customers; Blogging: Bubble or Big Deal; Will Ad-Skipping Kill Television?; The Essentials of Integrated Marketing; The Sports Power Shift; The Great Portal Shakeout; The Content-Commerce Collision; Goodbye To Classifieds. Chris has written for and been quoted extensively by such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Business Week, National Public Radio, and CNBC, to name a few. He has also been honored as a keynote speaker at internationally known events such as The World Newspaper Congress and AdAsia.

Prior to joining Forrester, Chris was a product manager for Vertigo Development Group, a provider of interactive and online financial planning software. While at Vertigo, Chris managed the development of interactive products for business and financial luminaries such as stock-picker Peter Lynch and management expert Tom Peters.

Chris is also a former corporate bond trader for Salomon Brothers (where he was a member of the famed "Liar's Poker" training class, immortalized by best-selling author Michael Lewis).

Chris is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.