Chris Lynch is the Executive Chairman and CEO at AtScale, the industry leader in data federation and cloud transformation. Prior to AtScale, Chris founded and was a partner of Reverb Advisors. Reverb is an advisory firm that works with cybersecurity, data science, and next-generation application and infrastructure companies achieve their entrepreneurial goals. Chris is also co-founder of hack/reduce, a non-profit that is driving Boston’s big data ecosystem, hack/secure, a non-profit shaping the Cybersecurity community across the U.S. and is an advisor and mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs and startups.

Prior to Reverb, Chris founded and was General Partner at Accomplice (www.accomplice.co), a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. Chris backs entrepreneurs building companies based on disruptive enterprise technology and is most often the founding investor. 

Before joining Accomplice, Chris held CEO and leadership roles at tech startups where during his career he raised over $150M in capital and returned more than $7B to his investors. Chris was CEO of Vertica (acquired by HP) and Acopia Networks (acquired by F5 Networks); and held executive leadership positions at Arrowpoint Communications (IPO, then acquired by Cisco), Prominet (acquired by Lucent) and Wellfleet Communications (acquired by Bay Networks).

Chris is an avid supporter of the St. Baldrick’s foundation. He first became involved with St. Baldrick’s more than four years ago when he launched the first annual hack/reduce Charity Cup. Since then, the event has raised more than $1M to help fund pediatric cancer research. 

Chris earned his MBA from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University and his bachelor’s degree in business management from Suffolk University. He received an honorary doctor of commercial science degree from Bentley University.