Advisory Partner, Port Royal Advisors


Chris is a proven CTO with over 25 years of experience building resilient, secure systems focused on delivering meaningful business outcomes across the financial services, healthcare, wholesale/distribution, retail and hospitality sectors. He is recognized for bridging deep technical and cybersecurity expertise with executive-level strategix decision making.

Chris is a trusted technology advisor to C-Suite Executives in firms ranging from $50M to $35B in revenue. Highly skilled in bridging trust and performance gaps between the Executive and IT teams to ensure tech strategy is executive with excellence. 

He is a former CEO of a managed network and cybersecurity firm specializing in high availability networking for the retail and hospitality sectors with 10+ years serving as an Advisory CTO or Strategic Architect for restaurant and retail companies ranging between 20 and 3,500 locations. 

He is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida with research focused on building higher performance strategies for operational alignment between technology and executive teams.

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