CHRISTOPHER A. SMITH
Growth. Platforms. Partnerships.
Leader. Operator. Exited Founder. Award-Winning Author.
Advising leaders, boards, and teams ready to scale what’s next.
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Advisory Areas
01.
Founder & Operator Frameworks
Practical lessons from building, scaling, and exiting platform businesses, from product decisions and commercialization to operating through growth.
02.
Product Strategy & GTM
Helping leaders decide what to build, who to serve, how to reach the market, and how to scale adoption. Zero-to-one, one-to-ten, and beyond. Lets talk.
03.
Revenue, Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
Building the partnerships, channels, ecosystems, and revenue models that turn products into growing businesses.
04.
AI Strategy & Emerging Technology
Helping companies understand how AI and emerging technologies are changing products, markets, and competitive strategy.
05.
Identity, Trust & Platform Strategy
Turning digital identity, authentication, privacy, and trust into practical product and business capabilities.
06.
Emerging Infrastructure & Market Opportunities
Evaluating how new infrastructure, regulation, identity, trust, and AI create product and market opportunities.
07.
Fraud, Risk & Trust Architecture
Developing fraud reduction, risk, trust, and customer protection strategies that support growth and platform integrity.
08.
Privacy, Policy & Consumer Advocacy
Helping organizations understand how privacy, identity, and consumer protection requirements affect product, growth, and business strategy.
About Me
My Career Didn't Begin in Tech.
It started in professional sports and media, working across the inaugural XFL season, the NFL, and NFL Europe before transitioning into technology during the foundational years of programmatic advertising.
Over the past 20 years, I’ve helped build and commercialize emerging technology platforms across advertising, digital identity, Web3, and trust infrastructure. I’ve held leadership roles at Adap.tv (AOL), Collective (Zeta Global), Turn (Singtel), and Civic (following its $33M ICO), and founded, built, and scaled Stitch Video, acquired in 2023.
Across those roles, the common thread has been building platforms, strategic partnerships, and marketplace ecosystems that transform technical innovation into commercial adoption.
Today, my focus remains where it has been throughout my career: helping emerging technologies reach commercial scale through product strategy, commercialization, strategic partnerships, ecosystem development, and platform growth.
I also serve as Board Chair of The Defend Foundation, publish The Digital Safety Brief, and am the author of Privacy Pandemic, recipient of the Foreword Reviews Science & Technology Award.
"I operate at the intersection of commercialization, platforms, emerging technologies, and global markets."
-Christopher A. Smith
Testimonials
What Leaders Are Saying
Tom Kemp, Executive Director, California Privacy Protection Agency
Bill Raduchel, Former CTO, AOL, Author of The New Technology State
Eva Velasquez, President & CEO, Identity Theft Resource Center
Foreword Reviews, 2023 Science & Technology Award Winner