20 year background of highly consultative, entrepreneurial Management, Sales & Business Development experience. Having enormous Fortune 500 brand exposure & contacts, uniquely skilled in the development of new technology markets, with emerging products and services, and in managing complex client relationships.
Since achieving ‘youngest V.P. status in the history of an established Northeastern Financial Services Firm' at age 26, changed course to pursue a passion for the most challenging technology markets. A keen foresight for positioning on the front edge of emerging technology markets including early web- based advertising (Wired, Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com & CBS MarketWatch), content distribution (TheStreet.com), sophisticated cross media advertising programs (CBS & MPT), business class blogging solutions (Directory Xpress/ MyInfoPage, Kinetic Knowledge & Real Estate Blogsites), blog & chat room data- mining (Umbria), and blog community creation (Directory Xpress/ MyInfoPage.)
In late 2002 he co- founded a very early business blogging enterprise
. With Directory Xpress/ MyInfoPage, he developed dynamic local yellow page portals where all listings were preconfigured with blogging capabilities. In a time where the world hadn't really heard of blogging, the first local portal had 65 local businesses publishing to the web.
Chris has a degree in Political Science/ Economics from the University of Maryland. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, grew up in Westfield, NJ and he currently lives in Manasquan, NJ. Aside from a focus on operating Real Estate Blogsites/ Kinetic Knowledge, he spends most of his time with family, good friends, dog... and he still finds some time to go surfing in various places.