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Chris serves CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals as well as agency leaders. He is a leading expert on modern brand strategy, digital-era advertising, and the evolving agency landscape.
Chris has more than 17 years of experience in management consulting and advertising. He helps marketers navigate emerging media and technology, transform their advertising strategy, and adapt their organizations for the digital age. Clients such as Facebook, L'Oreal, Kraft Foods, HP, and IBM have turned to Chris for his thought leadership. Additionally, he has worked across a broad spectrum of agencies — including holding companies such as Omnicom and WPP, network agencies such as JWT and DDB, and digital agencies such as Digitas, Rosetta, VML, and Blast Radius — to improve their strategic capabilities, competitive positioning, and new business strategies.
Prior to Forrester, Chris worked in advertising for more than eight years, developing brand strategies and discovering breakthrough consumer insights for clients such as Mars, Michelin, Novartis, and Wachovia. Chris started his career as a management consultant for Accenture, where he developed customer experience and marketing technology strategies for clients such as AT&T and Bell South.
Chris is a member of The Wharton School's Future of Advertising project. He is also a regular contributor to industry publications and events, including Advertising Age CMO Strategy and the ANA.
Chris received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.
Consumer Interest Is Rising Slightly, But Mainstream Adoption Is Still Far Off
In the US, adoption of mobile payments has been virtually nonexistent, although interest is starting to notch upward. Today, 18% of US online adults express interest in mobile payments, and yet less...
Citi Moves To The Top With Added Functionality And A New Look
Digital banking teams want to know where they stack up against competitors when it comes to their secure websites and other digital features — everything from mobile functionality to customer...

We Apply Forrester's STEP Methodology To The eBusiness Solutions Evaluation Process For Financial Services Providers
eBusiness executives at financial services providers have many roles, and one of the more critical is choosing technology solutions that meet their firm's technology-agnostic business problems....

Firms Continue To Enhance Core Functionality But Lack New Digital Banking Features
This report details how the secure websites of the six largest retail banks in Canada stack up against each other across six categories and 66 individual criteria measuring the banks' online...
eBusiness Teams At Canada's Top Banks Make Major Improvements
Forrester conducted our annual evaluation of the secure online banking websites of the six largest Canadian banks — Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC),...
Advanced PFM Goes Beyond The Firm's Existing Website Offering, And The eBusiness Team Applies The Lessons To The Website
In July 2011, Citibank officially launched its first ever tablet banking app, but the true breakthrough took place five months earlier, when eBusiness leaders at the bank began the process of...
Marked Improvements Across All Firms, With Wells Fargo Leading
Forrester conducted our annual evaluation of the secure online banking websites of the six largest US banks — Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo —...
With The Launch Of iNomineo, Generali Focuses On A Major Revenue Source
Generali France's iNomineo app for the iPhone offers financial advisors mobile access to client information, details of clients' holdings and past transactions, and graphic illustrations of market...
Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...
This is one of two reports that detail the findings from Forrester's annual ranking of the digital sales offerings of the 12 largest banks in North America. The report covers six major Canadian banks...
The percentage of US adults who bank online has risen from 51% in 2005 to 59% today. This steady growth has changed the way customers use other channels like branches, automated teller machines...
One-Third Of Small Business Owners Research Financial Services Products Online
Three in four small business owners have used the Internet for at least one banking activity in the past year. But which channels do owners use to shop for the financial products they use for their...
Firm "Electronifies" Cash Transactions To Enhance Existing PFM Tool
In February 2009, Discover Financial Services introduced its Spend Analyzer, an online personal financial management (PFM) tool that lets clients track and categorize their spending. Adoption was...
ABMs And The Web Are Now The Two Most Commonly Used Channels
Just as it has in other countries, the rise of online banking has changed the way Canadians conduct banking activities. Automated banking machines (ABMs) are the most widely used banking channel on a...
Landscape: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Mobile banking continues to gather momentum across developed countries, fueled by rising smartphone use and the steadily improving supply of mobile banking from banks in North America, Europe, and...

The Mobile Banking Imperative
This report, written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, is also relevant to CIOs and other IT leaders. CIOs at every bank face major changes as consumers move their banking activities...
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
Mobile is the hot channel these days. A number of investment firms have developed mobile apps, and many offer dedicated mobile Web sites. Consumer adoption is ticking up: Today, 11% of investors are...

In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...
eBusiness Executives Should Focus On Web Site Functionality For Support
Small business owners know a lot about their businesses, but they often know little about how to best manage the financial aspects of those businesses. As these small businesses grow, banks can build...
Nail The Basics To Quickly Expose The Value Of The Channel
In the US, adoption of mobile financial services is rising: 11% of US online adults are now mobile bankers and 7% of those with investment accounts are mobile investors, although just 3% of online...
This is one of two reports that detail the findings from Forrester's annual ranking of the digital sales offerings of the 12 largest banks in North America. The report covers six major US banks and...

Forrester Identifies Five Attributes Of Valuable Client Interactions Via Twitter
Forrester measured the Twitter activity of 30 North American financial services firms. We found that successful financial services brands on Twitter are proactive, multichannel, conversational,...
Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...