Chris Barth Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn

I am the principal strategist for Contagious North America, delivering hands-on, actionable information to empower innovation and success in my clients' organizations. Through advisory services, innovation workshops, trend briefings, and bespoke reports, Contagious helps the world's best brands and advertising agencies keep up with shifts in marketing, technology, and consumer behavior. Contagious is an indispensable strategic resource and creative reference tool for brands and agencies around the world.I also write for Contagious' award-winning quarterly magazine and online intelligence platform, and speak at a variety of industry events.

New York, New York

I worked as an editorial producer on nights and weekends for MLB.com's Prospect Watch (now MLB Pipeline) during the 2012 and 2013 Major League Baseball seasons. I wrote and edited prospect profiles, monitored prospect eligibility, updated information based on injury reports, and obtained and edited photos for the site's Team Prospect and First Year Player Draft lists.

I managed the Intelligent Investing section of Forbes.com, programming content for the page on an ongoing basis. In addition to my own writing about investing, personal finance, markets and news for Forbes and Forbes.com, I edited a team of outside contributors who are experts in their respective fields. Additionally, I worked with Steve Forbes to bring in interviewees for the Intelligent Investing With Steve Forbes interview series. As part of that process, I interviewed top investors, CEOs, and politicians and developed briefing books for each guest.

My duties with Rolling Stone included writing stories for the web, editing discography summaries, monitoring news sources, transcribing and editing interviews, and fact-checking reviews. As an editorial intern, I was part of an integral support team during RollingStone.com's relaunch in April, 2010. In August of 2010, I transitioned to a freelance role with the RollingStone.com team.

During my time at Arcadia Solutions, I worked within the Healthcare Industry to improve the customer-facing web application of a major insurance provider. My duties included serving as a liaison between technical and business teams, creating and maintaining design and strategy documents, and managing the implementation of new web functionalities.

The Big Green Bus is an entirely student run non-profit project that converted a school bus to run on waste vegetable oil. While traveling the country, The Big Green Bus worked to foster awareness of current global energy issues and create a dialogue about tangible solutions to those problems. As Logistics Coordinator, I arranged publicity events, meals, travel, media coverage, and lodging for a 14,000 mile cross-country trip. During three months on the road, the Big Green Bus visited 45 major cities giving presentations on sustainable energy.

While working with Dartmouth College's Geography Department, I coordinated and researched an Alumni Mapping Project developed as an extension of a term project. During the project I utilized specialized program ArcGIS to coordinate alumni locations and local alumni clubs in order to improve efficiency of Dartmouth College Alumni Office.