Chris Evans

Christopher Evans is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with offices in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Evans, a Trustee of the Trinity Forum, also currently serves on the board of directors of Community in Schools of Wake County, Trinity Academy of Raleigh (on which he is the current Chair), NC State Engineering Department’s Entrepreneurs Advisory Board, NC State Computer Science Department’s Strategic Advisory Board and The Entrepreneurs Philanthropic Venture Fund. He also serves as an advisor to several businesses and not-for-profit enterprises in the US and Europe.

Mr. Evans served on the Board of Directors for Engage (NASD: ENGA) a majority-owned subsidiary of CMGI and provider of profile-driven Internet marketing solutions from 1999 until 2001. Prior to Engage, Mr. Evans was the CEO and founder of Accipiter, a leading provider of ad management solutions purchased by CMGI, Inc., and fully merged with Engage in 1998. Accipiter’s online advertising technology has been used by MSN, CNET, Lycos, ZDNet, Broadcast.Com, Ask Jeeves, and many others.

In 1992, Mr. Evans founded Hotlinx, a publisher of print and online buyer’s guides for software professionals, which was sold to a group of private investors in 1997. From 1985 through 1992, Mr. Evans served as the Executive Vice President of DaVinci Systems, a company he co-founded. DaVinci Systems was a software company based in Raleigh, North Carolina that developed the award winning LAN-based electronic mail product, DaVinci e-mail. As DaVinci’s top marketing exec, he helped grow the company’s installed base to three million users in 45 countries. DaVinci was sold to ONTechnology in 1994.

In May of 1999, Ernst & Young named Mr. Evans their “Master Entrepreneur” as part of their Entrepreneur of the Year program. In 1998 and 1997, he received numerous awards including “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Business Leader Magazine and the 1998 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development and was also named one of Advertising Age’s Digital Media Masters. Chris attended North Carolina State University prior to founding DaVinci Systems.