Venture Development
Venture Development

Chris has worked throughout his career to develop new ventures and businesses for
Venture backed and Fortune 500 companies.  It is from this experience that Chris
understands the importance of sweating the details, having authored business plans,
developed detailed financial models and in-depth market assessments, crafted realistic
business models, performed due diligence on investment opportunities and connected
ventures with strategic and financial resources.  He has also worked closely with C-Level
executives to define and build organizations, recruiting talented executives in a variety of
functional disciplines, in executing approved business plans for new ventures.

Most recently, Chris has provided a variety of these services to the following ventures:

TrashCo, Inc. (dba Flings Bins) - An early stage venture, 50% owned by Waste
Management, launching an innovative new consumer product in the trash collection
and recycling segment called Flings Pop-Up Bins.

Evergreen Innovation Partners, LLP - A new breed of company, called Innovation
Capitalists, that assists inventors and small companies in transforming their
invention into an innovation.  Evergreen IP performs market and IP research before
investing their own capital to prepare an invention for market introduction.  They
then introduce the market-ready product to targeted partners, primarily in the
Consumer Products and Consumer Electronics industries.

Ardtully Technologies, Inc. - Developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that
redistributes digital media owned by a consumer to the consumer's media playback
devices authenticated by the company's servers, attaching the content license to the
USER, not the device, simplifying digital content consumption.

Coherent Media Networks - Developer of a Home Portal via the TV that wirelessly
controls the digital home, including digital media management and distribution, home
automation, device security and impulse shopping via strategic retail partnerships,
and offers an Over The Top (OTT) cable by-pass solution.

Private Investor - Evaluated "Internet DVR" (time-shifted video) services over
broadband IP networks to intelligent consumer devices (mobile phones, TVs, PDAs)
and hotels.  

Archive Initiatives International - a venture established to restore, digitize and
repurpose archived media to targeted audiences for institutions like the Baseball Hall
of Fame and Wimbledon.

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