Chris Harrison

CEO at EmergeGen

Accolades

Chris has 35+ years of experience as a dynamic and accomplished leader working at, amongst others, HSBC, Drexel Burnham, Bear Stearns, Bankers Trust, the Bank of New York, Raymond James, and Nuveen.

A leader with international reach, Chris has a proven track record of building innovative technology businesses from the ground up and is known for his skills in international business development, strategic partnership building, brand development, sales and marketing, corporate portfolio management, and fundraising.

Chris has a reputation for fostering world-class talent and leading the highest-performing teams - and is commended for providing board-level strategic and leadership advice for creating and implementing commercial strategies, solving complex operational problems, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Experience

As well as helming companies as CEO, he's been hands-on as an advisor to startups and held the positions of CRO and Head of Sales & Business Development. He has a consistent track record of driving profitable growth via robust, pragmatic strategies, continually originating and executing investments, building customer relations, and growing businesses.As a board-level advisor, he's provided strategic advice for commercial strategies and startup business management in innovative ventures such as Louisa Connects - a collective intelligence platform born out of Goldman Sachs - and Alltum.io, a platform for email-driven workflows. Chris is a successful leader with a proactive and positive attitude, a commitment to company purpose and values, and working together in a high-performance board environment.


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