Chris Theodoros
Principal and Managing Director, StemSave, Inc.
Chris recently helped launch StemSave, a business that enables consumers to recover, transport and cryopreserve their stem cells for future regenerative therapies.
Prior to joining StemSave, Chris was a leader for innovation in the interactive advertising world for fourteen years. A Director with Google, Inc. for seven years, he originally built Google's national advertising agency channel, guiding leadership, process, policy, training and account management for a rapidly expanding revenue stream. He now leads management of Google's advertising Industry Relations initiatives to ensure consistent focus, education, leadership, and communication with many key organizations like the ANA, AAAA, DMA, IAB, TvB, CAB, RAB, NAA, AAF and The Ad Council. He is chair of the Search Agency Committee with the Interactive Advertising Bureau and serves on the Boards of the International Advertising Association and the Advertising Educational Foundation.
Prior to Google, Chris helped build DoubleClick, the first interactive Advertising Network, where he led several teams toward the most highly successful public offering for any New York based Media company. After joining as the eighth employee, he spent six years building and growing teams as Vice President, Sponsorship & Creative Services, Vice President, International Sales based in London and Sydney , and ultimately, Vice President, Global Marketing Strategies, serving DoubleClick's top advertising clients.
During his tenure there, Chris consistently innovated, delivering new, accountable advertising models and programs to employees and customers in eighteen countries across Europe, South America and Asia. DoubleClick presented him with the inaugural Chairman's Award, awarded to the top producer at the company annually.
