Christopher Gerhardt

Boards, CEOs, and private-equity owners bring him in when last decade’s architecture, a thin security program, a stalled AI program, or a pre-IPO technology organization is blocking growth — and the sitting team wants a peer who has already run the play. Founded GrayBeard in 2015. Co-Founder, CEO, and Director of Voyage Technologies (healthcare revenue-cycle and AI). Prior full-time CIO seats at FiscalNote and Epic Games, where he was on the executive team for the Fortnite and Unreal Engine online launch. As President and CTO of Denali Advanced Integration he took a regional VAR to a national systems integrator: $40 million / 100 employees to $250 million / 500, remaining profitable.

C-level technology executive who works with leadership teams across the full range: consulting alongside a sitting CIO, CTO, or COO, through serving as a fully accountable member of the executive team when the work requires it. He prefers a zero-based look at people, process, and technology — and treats AI the same way: adopt what pays, retire what does not. When a dedicated seat is no longer needed, he has recommended retiring it and building the backfill, as he did at Epic Games. He does not arrive alone — GrayBeard brings a standing roster of named agents, each with a role, a working style, a known leash, and clear ownership of their lane.