Chris Grayson is a 14 year veteran of the New York City digital advertising scene. Working with many of the city's largest agencies— three years with Ogilvy, four years with Euro RSCG, and consultant to G2 Interactive, Continuity/McGarryBowen, DraftFCB and others— he has serviced the accounts of some of the world's most recognized brands.

His campaigns for Nikon, Intel, MCI and Volvo have been honored by The Ad:Tech Awards, The Addy Awards, The Web Awards and The OneShow. Media agnostic, he has led integrated campaigns across print, broadcast, mobile and other emerging platforms.

His online advocacy campaigns have been reported in the web edition of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News and have been covered on New York 1. He has been quoted in AdWeek's AdGeek column and his influential blog, GigantiCo, receives traffic and comments from across the industry. He also writes for H+ Magazine, covering Art at the intersection of Technology.

His eclectic education gave him the opportunity to study under two Neue Bauhaus alumni and Mies van der Rohe pupils— interior design with Jim Harrington while at Memphis State, and John McNanie while studying architecture at Pratt Institute.

As part of Memphis State University's Honors program, in 1991 Chris was one of only twelve students admitted into the philosophy department's "Computers in the Human Context," and further extended the coursework as an honors independent study. The curriculum covered the ideas of Alan Turing, Marshall McLuhan, Alvin Toffler, Mitch Kapor and other futurist and forward thinking technologists, several years before the commercialization of the Web.

Chris had his first Internet account in 1983 with CompuServe and his Commodore Vic-20. A junky for popular science periodicals, he still owns such artifacts as the July 1982 issue of OMNI Magazine (in which William Gibson first coined the term "Cyberspace"), issue #1 of WIRED, and the complete production run of Mondo 2000.

His preferred pastime is reading. Favoring non-fiction, he reads future-trend technology writers like Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil, as well as more mainstream non-fiction writers like Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson and Steven Berlin Johnson; subscribes to The Economist, WIRED and various trade press publications.

Chris lives in midtown Manhattan with his wife and their dog. An amateur photographer and member of MoMA, he nurses an unhealthy addiction to Rock-n-Roll.