Chris Adams
Founder and Managing Director of Adams Hamilton

Chris works with businesses to understand how to scale and build growth that has not yet been visioned using innovative digital marketing, funding, software, and technology approaches. Chris and his team specialize in digital marketing strategy, innovation, funding mechanisms and business advisory services.

Chris’ philosophy is that start-ups are built on great ideas, team structure, product strategy, execution, and agility and that truly listening and understanding the needs of each customer and partner is crucial to its success. These beliefs are core to the success of Adams Hamilton and former start-ups, including gShift, a SaaS Content Performance Cloud Platform, Hot Banana Software, a web content management system, and cgk Technologies, an Internet marketing and application development company. (note gShift was recently acquired by Mintent (2018), and Hot Banana and cgk were acquired by publicly traded San Francisco-based Lyris in 2006.)

When Chris is not advising start-ups, he is a dedicated father, sailboat racer, cultural supporter, and member of the rock band Sonic Coalition, Barrie Yacht Club Commodore. He has been a Barrie Film Festival Board Member for the past 17 years. He is passionate about contributing to the community by helping to build a sense of place within the City of Barrie.