To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Chris Lynch is proud to cofound the Defense Digital Service after serving as part of the United States Digital Service team at the White House. At USDS, Chris has focused on revamping the technology, processes, and policies around the delivery of benefits to the men and women serving our country. Chris is a serial entrepreneur with startups ranging from consumer to enterprise venture-backed solutions.
He has built companies focused on personal health, big data analytics for enterprise, consumer gifting, gaming platforms, customer insights, and engineering processes and services. Previously Chris was VP of Engineering for Daptiv (acquired by ChangePoint). In addition to Microsoft, where Lynch served as a Development Manager in charge of the architecture, engineering, and operation of a global CRM application. Lynch is also a hobbyist photographer, tech geek, music lover, consumer of all things media, triathlete and Ironman.