Chris Brocoum

Chris Brocoum is the Head of Finance at Protocol Labs, an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory focused on decentralized networks. Chris is also a Board Member at Startups and an Advisor at Sodal and Creator Boost.

With two decades of experience, Chris specializes in navigating uncharted regions of finance, building teams at startups and large public companies, and developing thoughtful roadmaps to create value. Chris's expertise includes Finance, Management, Strategy, Operations, and Fundraising.

Prior to joining Protocol Labs in 2018, Chris served as Vice President, Finance at Lending Club, where Chris built analytics around the marketplace lending platform and developed innovative solutions for scaling financial operations. Chris's background also includes leadership roles at Visa, PlaySpan (acquired by Visa), Atmel, KLA-Tencor, and as Founder/Director of Finance at Centrata, a distributed computing startup Chris co-founded after earning a B.S. in Economics from MIT.

Chris earned an MBA from both Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Currently, Chris is focused on building a next-gen Finance Team to address challenges associated with deploying large-scale decentralized cryptonetworks.

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