Chris Walden is a senior business executive with extensive experience leading large Fortune 500 organizations across various industries, including financial services, healthcare, medical technology, insurance, and software development. He is a proven strategist with a keen focus on technologies that drive revenue growth and operating income, resulting in total shareholder return and long-term financial benefits.

As a visionary technology leader, Chris has deep technical expertise in digital, information systems, data analytics, customer service, and building high-performing teams. He has national leadership experience in a startup technology company, growing cross-functional teams and managing product development service lines. Chris has led organizations through multi-million-dollar electronic transformations, including organizational change management programs that foster adoption and drive business growth. Additionally, he developed a private health information strategy to improve customer experience and reduce healthcare costs and created strategies to reduce business interruptions by serving as the executive sponsor for the company's Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity program.

Chris's unique background includes starting his career in the technology field, spanning both the payor and procurement sectors. He later obtained his bachelor’s degree in nursing and served in various roles as a front-line critical care nurse. Continuing his education, he earned a master’s in healthcare administration with a minor in Informatics, which enabled him to lead various programs modernizing technology to drive increased efficiencies in acute care, ambulatory, and physician spaces.

His diverse blend of clinical, technical, and business executive experience has allowed him to hold progressively responsible positions across all areas of Information Technology. Chris’s strength lies in building relationships that foster a culture of trust, transparency, partnership, and alignment of technology resources to achieve a company’s mission.

He enjoys building high-functioning teams, managing profitability, leveraging emerging technologies, and driving results through continued partnerships with key stakeholders. His success has been rooted in his willingness to continually learn, lead, mentor, and execute in highly matrixed organizations.