As CEO and co-founder, Chris leads VALID8’s vision, strategy, and execution. Before co-founding VALID8, Chris led marketing as Chief Marketing Officer for NexGen Storage, where he built a world-class marketing team around strategic market analysis and product management.

Chris started his career as an electrical engineer designing systems for Boeing 747’s. Identifying the need to modernize the engineering design data infrastructure, he revamped how system design software could leverage large datasets more effectively. Passionate about extracting value from big data systems, Chris took on several product roles with startups acquired by F500 companies HP and SanDisk

About Us: Valid8, the global leader in Verified Financial Intelligence (VFI), uses the latest in AI and automation technology to rapidly parse, reconcile, and categorize financial data from numerous sources, including bank and brokerage statements, Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals, and even hand-written checks. Valid8 helps eliminate investigative risk, address staffing challenges, and improve the speed and quality of rendering a professional opinion.