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Christopher Smith
Managing Director

Contact
chris@coralgrp.com
612.335.8669

 
 

Chris backs companies that disruptively change the way that we communicate and engage in entertainment.  He’s particularly focused on finding new ways to deliver broadband, including both wireline and wireless, and the plethora of new digital services that leverage that newfound bandwidth and add value to the consumer experience.

Experience
Chris’s foray into venture capital was with IBM’s Venture Capital Group where he focused on the enterprise computing sector.  Prior to IBM, Chris was a manager with Accenture, where he was involved with launching new businesses in the communications and media markets, including forming ventures using Accenture’s intellectual property and consulting to emerging start-up companies.  Chris got his start on the engineering side of the business, having developed enterprise software for Xerox, covered data communications technology for Network Computing Magazine and administered large networks for Syracuse University.

Education
B.S., Syracuse University
M.B.A., University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business, IBM Venture Fellow

 

     
 
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