CHRISTOPHER A. SMITH
20 Years Building, Scaling & Exiting Global Platforms
Executive operator. Exited founder. Award-Winning Author.
Now advising founders, executives, and boards ready to accelerate growth.
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Advisory Areas
01.
Identity, Trust & Platform Strategy
Helping companies navigate digital identity, authentication, privacy, and trust as strategic business capabilities.
02.
Fraud, Risk & Trust Architecture
Designing cybercrime and fraud reduction strategies, trust frameworks, and customer protection systems that support long-term growth and platform integrity.
03.
Product Strategy & GTM
From zero-to-one product architecture through go-to-market execution, helping define what to build, who to sell it to, and how to scale revenue from the ground up.
04.
AI Strategy & Emerging Technology
How AI is reshaping competitive landscapes, product strategy, and operational infrastructure, and how companies can position themselves ahead of the shift.
05.
Emerging Infrastructure & Market Opportunities
Evaluating how identity, trust, regulatory shifts, and AI create new product, partnership, and market opportunities for operators and investors.
06.
Founder & Operator Frameworks
The real decisions, frameworks, and hard lessons from building, scaling, and exiting platform businesses, applied to your specific situation.
07.
Revenue, Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
Building the commercial infrastructure partnerships, channels, ecosystems, and revenue models that compound over time.
08.
Privacy, Policy & Consumer Rights
How evolving privacy regulations, identity requirements, and consumer protection standards impact product, growth, and business strategy, and how organizations can lead rather than react.
About Me
My Career Didn't Begin in Tech.
It started in professional sports and media, working across the inaugural XFL season (San Francisco Demons), the NFL (Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions), and NFL Europe (Rhein Fire, Germany) in my early twenties.
That world exposed me to global brands, live media environments, and high-performance organizations operating under pressure. It shaped everything that followed.
From there, I moved into technology during the foundational years of programmatic advertising, digital video, and connected TV, contributing to the commercialization of some of the industry’s earliest video marketplaces and programmatic television infrastructure at Adap.tv (AOL), Collective (Zeta Global), and Turn (Singtel).
I later founded Stitch Video, a global video distribution and monetization platform that scaled to 500 million monthly video views across 500 web, app, and CTV partners, before its acquisition in 2023.
Across these chapters, a consistent theme emerged: understanding how large-scale platforms shape human behavior, economic systems, and institutional trust.
Today, I advise founders, executives, and boards on commercialization, marketplace strategy, digital identity, trust infrastructure, and the opportunities created by emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
"I operate at the intersection of global commercialization, infrastructure, and systemic risk."
-Christopher A. Smith
Testimonials
What People Are Saying about Privacy Pandemic
Tom Kemp, Executive Director, California Privacy Protection Agency
Bill Raduchel, Former CTO, AOL, Author of The New Technology State
Josh Linkner, NY Times Bestselling Author & Venture Capitalist
Foreword Reviews, 2023 Science & Technology Award Winner