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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.
By-The-Numbers Business Case Is Lukewarm Today, But Advanced Functionality And Elusive Benefits Suggest Greater Returns Lie Ahead
Consumer adoption of mobile banking has accelerated over the past few years. In the US, the proportion of online adults who are mobile bankers has quadrupled from 4% in 2006 to 16% at the end of...

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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

RBC And CIBC Lead With Critical Functionality
Despite the rapid rise of mobile and tablet banking, secure websites remain the No. 1 digital touchpoint for credit cardholders interacting with their providers. Before eBusiness professionals at...
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...
Canadians still use the phone as their primary channel for insurance. In fact, the phone was the only channel used by a majority of online Canadian insurance customers in the past year, while fewer...
Using Regression Modeling To Better Understand The Drivers Of Acquisition, Retention, And Cross-Selling In Banking
In 2012, the age of the customer is in full swing. Gone are the days when companies could simply offer their services and customers could choose to take them or leave them — today, companies...
OPEN Forum, A Branded Website, Grew Out Of Offline Networking Events
Small business owners are hungry to talk to their peers about shared needs, topics, and solutions. American Express OPEN — the small-business arm of American Express — recognized this...
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...
CIBC Hits Client Adoption Target More Than One Year Ahead Of Estimates
Two years ago, CIBC — one of the five largest Canadian banks — saw momentum building behind mobile banking, momentum that would likely increase with the launch of the iPhone in Canada. As...
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....
Adoption Of Mobile Banking Is Heating Up And Portends Future Use Of Mobile Investing And Insurance Services
Most of the "big five" banking providers have now launched mobile offerings, and clients are responding. Consumer adoption of mobile banking in Canada has risen sharply from just 1% in 2008 to 9% at...
As mobile adoption increases, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are challenged to determine how these devices integrate with their existing sales and service channels. It is imperative...

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...

Tools And Technologies: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Even the best mobile strategy can be a victim of poor execution. Managing technology is hard enough, but as new phone features and capabilities crop up seemingly every day, navigating the ever...

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...
Mainstream Adoption Hinges On Issues With Value, Security, And Support
Mobile banking adoption continues to gather momentum in the US, fueled by strong consumer appetite for smartphones and banks' burgeoning supply of new mobile banking applications, websites, and...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...