Chris is an expert at quantifying and communicating value to drive profitable revenue growth and helping companies transform their go-to-market teams to create value for customers and their customers. His work draws on his over 30 years of global experience in structuring sales and financial transactions and driving company revenue growth. Chris started his career at the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto, worked in New York as an investment banker, and held executive sales and finance roles at both startup and Fortune 500 technology companies in Minneapolis. Chris’s education includes B.Sc.E Civil Engineering and M.Sc.E Environmental Engineering (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada), MBA Finance (Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada), and JD (Osgoode Hall Law School). He was also part of the adjunct faculty at the University of Saint Thomas.At The Summit Group, Chris is part of a group of thought leaders on business value transformation as part of the go-to-market strategies of some of the world's premier organizations, both in the public and private sectors. The Summit Group provides B2B consulting focused on value creation, sales performance transformation, strategic relationship development, and go-to-market execution. We are leaders in value-centered, strategic sales training and coaching, enabling companies to elevate customer relationships and accelerate profitable revenue growth. Key clients include 3M, Arcadis, Boehringer-Ingelheim, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson, Mayo Clinic, Medtronic, Merck, and Florida Power & Light.At Bywater Business Solutions, Chris partners with customers to achieve their goals.