Christopher has mentored and advised individuals and teams in a variety of environments.
Student Mentoring
Launch Summer, a 4-week entrepreneurship summer program held at MIT, and taught by Harvard faculty and alumni in Cambridge, MA. for high school students. Christopher was one of five mentors selected globally for the inaugural program. Launch enables high school students to launch a company, by providing the resources needed to go from “idea” to “implementation.” For each of our students, we instill a self-starter mentality, teach tangible, practical business skills, and introduce entrepreneurship as a career path. We aspire for our curriculum to generate more demand for entrepreneurship education in our schools.
Christopher is the senior-most mentor by tenure at Purdue University’s Annual Entrepreneurship Academy for high school kids. He walks a team of high school junior and seniors through a one week real business development week in which they begin with a real world startup and fully develop the pitch for investors by the end, when they actually pitch to real members of the investment community.
Startup Advising
Christopher serves on several advisory boards for startups 0-50 employees, generally in the collaboration space. He works directly with the CEO to help establish accountability and just enough structure to enable rapid growth and empower the team to increase value to their shareholders much more rapidly.