Chris Lynch is proud to co-found the Defense Digital Services (DDS) at the Department of Defense after serving as part of the United States Digital Service (USDS) team at the White House. While at DDS, Chris’s team launched the first ever federal bug bounty program called Hack the Pentagon, moved the first set of travelers onto a popular commercial cloud solution from a homegrown, expensive custom built system, and launched the development of next generation GPS on the cloud. At USDS, Chris focused on revamping the technology, processes, and policies around the delivery of medical benefits to the men and women serving our country.

Lynch is a serial entrepreneur with startups ranging from consumer to enterprise venture-backed solutions. He has built companies focused on personal health (UberHuman), big data analytics for enterprise (FlyPaper), consumer gifting (Thoughtful), gaming platforms (KCBMedia and SparkWord), customer insights (North by Nine), and engineering processes and services (SparkRadius). 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.