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. Dozens of fractional engagements — real outcomes, not decks. 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.

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 mandate they’re empowered to own, and clear ownership of their lane.