Christopher Evans
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Deepwoods Group
Thursday, October 1, 2009
McKimmon Center, NC State University
Registration begins at 5:30. Presentation at 6:00 with reception to follow.
- This event is free and open to the public.
Directions to the McKimmon Center:
From I-40 traveling east from airport. Take Gorman Str. Exit #295. Turn left onto Gorman Str. Go approximately 1 mile. McKimmon Center is on the right past Avent Ferry Rd., before Western Blvd.
From I-40 traveling west. Take Gorman Str. Exit #295. Turn right onto Gorman Str. Go approximately 1 mile. McKimmon Center is on the right past Avent Ferry Rd., before Western Blvd.
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Starts at NC State. Ends up helping the world.
Christopher Evans is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with offices in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Evans currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Trinity Forum, Community in Schools of Wake County, the NC State Engineering Department’s Entrepreneurs Advisory Board, and is a charter member of the NC State Entrepreneurship Initiative Advisory Board. He also serves as an advisor to several businesses and not-for-profit enterprises in the US and Europe.
Mr. Evans was the CEO and founder of Accipiter, a leading provider of ad management solutions. Accipiter’s online advertising technology has been used by MSN, CNET, Lycos, ZDNet, Broadcast.Com, Ask Jeeves, and many others. Accipiter was purchased by CMGI, Inc., and fully merged with Engage in 1998. Mr. Evans served on the Board of Directors for Engage (NASD: ENGA), a majority owned subsidiary of CMGI, and a provider of profile driven Internet marketing solutions from 1999 until 2001.
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 email. 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 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.
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, 1998 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development, and was named one of Advertising Age’s Digital Media Masters. Chris attended North Carolina State University prior to founding DaVinci Systems.
About Entrepreneurs’ Lecture Series
The Entrepreneurs Lecture Series is designed to showcase outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship among NC State alumni and partners. The lecture series, made possible by a grant from Andy and Jane Albright, is sponsored by the NC State Entrepreneurship Initiative. The goal of the Entrepreneurship Initiative is to build a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship for NC State students through programs and opportunities that help prepare them to be North Carolina’s job creators and leaders of tomorrow.
Past speakers include John Norris*, President and CEO of Fuel Tech, Inc.; Steve Yauch*, President and Owner, Carolina Electronic Assemblers; Robert Young, founder of Lulu.com; Jim Goodnight*, CEO of SAS; Bill Nussey*, co-founder of DaVinci Systems, current CEO of Silverpop; Scot Wingo*, CEO of ChannelAdvisor; Thomas R. McPherson, Jr.*, former president and CEO of Hatteras Networks; Barbara Mulkey*, president and CEO of Mulkey Engineers & Consultants; Richard Holcomb*, current CEO and chairman of StrikeIron, former CEO and chairman of Haht Commerce; Nick England*, founder and current CEO of 3rd Tech, founder of Ikonas Graphics Systems, founder of Trancept Systems; Jerry Neal*, Bill Pratt, and Powell Seymour, founders of RF Micro Devices; as well as business leaders Neal Hunter*, founder Cree, Inc., LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc.; Matthew Szulik, Chairman and CEO of Red Hat; Joseph Forbes, COO of Consert, Inc; Marshall Brain, Founder of How Stuff Works.
* indicates NC State alumnus.
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