Chris Smoak

Consultant

Chief Technology Officer

Chris Smoak has a background in software engineering working at companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. He has founded and built engineering teams at several companies since 2006 within industries, such as legal tech and health care. Chris has been an angel investor for 8 years and two years ago started Whoa Ventures with two other partners.

About

Specialties

Technical management, coding, strategic planning

  • Founder of Whoa Ventures

  • Founder of Atrium to provide legal support for startups

  • Former co-founder and CTO of Volume11 Media, a payments & advertising platform for social gaming and other websites

  • Former co-founder and CTO of Anchor Health, which is a company that focuses on fixing home health care by tackling the operational challenges of running an agency efficiently

  • Former co-founder of Digital Brick, Inc. which is an early social site focused on image sharing

  • Extensive technical background in software development priorly at Microsoft, Amazon, and nVidia

Experience

  • BS in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon University

Education/Certification