Chris specializes creating and executing on initiatives and deals that result in deep impact and measurable outcomes; focusing on the intersection of distribution, content and audience and helping to bring brand visibility to consumers while creating revenue- generating programs that engage and activate.

His company, Orbit Media Group (OMg www.orbitmediagroup.com) offers clients acceleration and revenue generation through its team of top media professionals across sales, business development, marketing and strategic consulting.
It’s “company in a box” model helps companies achieve greater market-share, revenues and traction through speed, experience and access to decision makers and influencers.

Via OMg he serves as President and CEO of www.Vimation.com, an interactive video engagement platform offering brands, advertisers and content creators the ability to broadly publish and syndicate video with all monetization and transactions traveling via share and embedding.

He is a Founder and North American General Manager of www.MyHeartwill.com, a site where users can protect, preserve and pass on their memories and legacy to loved ones.

Additional clients include: www.View2gether.com a “social viewing” platform which has deals/launches with CBS, Sony and ABC as well as being honored as a 2009 OnHollywood Top 100 Company and others.

In 2009 he formed Adams/Kearney (www.adamskearney.com) a film development company with producing partner Steve Kearney which has offices in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.

Past clients range from www.Facebook.com, for which he helped to create and Produced “Facebook Diaries,” the first-ever hybrid user-generated video/reality TV show distributed on Facebook.com, Ziddio.com, Comcast VOD and the IFC Channel, to HBO to Comcast Cable and Interactive, to www.Glam.com where he build GlamTV.

In 2003, Chris joined with eBay’s Jeff Skoll as Chief Vision Officer to help create Participant Media. Participant’s vision is to create entertainment that inspires audiences to make social change.

Participant’s first slate of movies - Syriana, North Country, Good Night and Good Luck and the documentary Murderball – were nominated for an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards.

Chris is also proud to have identified and help develop An Inconvenient Truth for former Vice President, Al Gore that, in addition to winning an Academy Award for Best Documentary, contributed to Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Chris currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of The Global Poverty Project (www.globalpovertyproject.com), which is dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty.

He is a frequent Key Note speaker with engagements at The TV 3.0 Conference,The Opportunity Green Conference, ideaCity, X Media Labs (Wellington, NZ and Melbourne,AUS),The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) and the Screen Production and Development Conference (SPADA) in Auckland, NZ and OnHollywood Conference.
He also is an Advisory Board member of www.UltimateMovieSite.com and www.Splashlife.com.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Chris graduated from the University of Denver with a double major in English literature and Mass Communications.
He received his MFA from USC’s School of Film and TV and his MFA/PhD with honors from USC’s School of Professional Writing, pursuing both degrees concurrently.
Chris lives in Los Angeles, California and Brisbane,Australia with his wife Sharon and their son, Cooper and is an avid surfer and reader.

I work with Companies on Digital Strategy with a focus on Social Media, and Content Production.
I started in production as a TVC Director, went on to found a Production/Post-Production Company that at peak had 11 staff.
I was EP/Director on a world first cross-platform drama series.
I'm currently a panelist for Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund.

This centre draws on contributions across the humanities, creative arts and social sciences to help build a more dynamic and inclusive innovation system in Australia.

He is one of Australia's best-known media scholars with a special interest in policy.| He is author or editor of several books and major reports, most recently: The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed (with Graeme Turner, Allen & Unwin, forthcoming 2009), What Price a Creative Economy' (Platform Papers, 2006), Beyond the creative industries: mapping the creative economy in the United Kingdom (with Peter Higgs and Hasan Bakhshi, NESTA, 2008) and In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy (University of Queensland Press, 2008). He has held a visiting professorial appointment at the Australian National University and currently holds visiting professorial appointments at City University London and the University of St Andrews. He has served as a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission; foundation Chair of QPIX, Queensland's screen resource centre; Treasurer and Executive member of Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; Panel Chair and member, Australian Research Council College of Experts; President of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; and currently is an appointee to the Library Board of Queensland and a board member of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

He has successfully supervised 25 higher degree students to completion, across a diverse range of topics including film and media theory, history and policy, journalism, documentary and related screen practice, and creative industries policy development at a regional, national and international level. He welcomes approaches about potential higher degree research opportunities.

Victorian Board Member at AIMIA

Committee Member at Mobility Vic

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