Bill Gates calls her “super high bandwidth.”

Bill Clinton has thanked her for “fostering American entrepreneurship.”

Newsweek says “by reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.”

New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is a specialist in Corporate Strategy, Execution and Behavioral Alignment among top executives, teams and emerging leaders. Her coaching, consulting and strategies have created hundreds of millions of dollars in new client company value and revenue. She is sought after for providing proven strategies to shift executive behavior to create more positive outcomes, enroll and align teams in times of change, massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value—yet she openly says she simply supports her clients who truly make these results happen.

CEOs, Boards and Investors count on Christine to help them:

• Increase accountability, communication, execution among team members resulting in profound revenue, profit, market position growth.

• Navigate rapid growth where internal priorities are frequently shifting and the team is challenged to quickly adapt and stretch.

• Resolve conflict or improve alignment of business partners, teams, board members.

• Improve the leadership and communication skills of C- and VP-level executives by helping them overcome their blind spots and challenging behaviors, and expand their vision.

• Execute a new business model or complete company turnaround with executive and cultural support.

Christine’s clients grow their businesses at surprising speeds and greatly outperform their competitors due to her expertise of 30+ years building and growing businesses and 35+ years in human behavior optimization.

As an Entrepreneur, Christine has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance.

Christine has also led many unconventional lives, adding to her 360 Degree ability to understand business not as just a set of strategies, but also as a complex web of human interaction. She has been a: Buddhist monk, software engineer (at Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Lotus), entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her New York Times (and USA Today, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Amazon.com ) bestselling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or via www.RulesForRenegades.com.

Christine is a leadership columnist for www.Forbes.com. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.

Notable accomplishments include:

• Provided on-air insights/commentary for the CNN/FORTUNE magazine TV special “The Top 25 Business Leaders”

• Included in The Computer History Museum’s photo exhibition (by Dr. Nancy Engel) of 60 movers and shakers in High Technology

• Consulted to BBC TV for “World’s Most Powerful” TV special

• Leader/Innovator/Visionary Award for Top Woman in Banking/Finance in the North Bay by North Bay Business Journal

• Named one of the Six Bold New VCs by Upside Magazine

• Named one of the Top New VCs by Red Herring Magazine

• Named one of the Top Five “Renegade” entrepreneurs by Success magazine

• Named one of the Top Women in Computing by Business Week

• Received numerous additional entrepreneurial awards and recognition from premier press and business schools including Fortune, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Stanford, Harvard, Haas and Northwestern Universities.

• Christine’s first business book Rules for Renegades was a runaway best seller: #3 New York Times,  #2 Wall Street Journal, #1USA Today, #1 for two full days on Amazon.com

Publications, Speeches, Business Plan Judging, Special Projects

• Published over 300 articles to date on business, software development, I.T. management for publications including assorted Ziff Davis magazines (PC Week, PC Magazine, Windows Sources), Forbes, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Harvard Business Review, IEEE Journal. #1 syndicated columnist on technology management issues and entrepreneurship from 1992-1997 (Ziff Davis publications). #1 finance and growth columnist for BusinessWeek Small Biz. Additionally was a former top-ranked columnist for Inc. and Fast Company.

• Delivered over 400 speeches to date including, Harvard Business School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, UCB Haas School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Business; CIO, I.T. management, and software developer conferences sponsored by Computer Associates, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Symantec, Information Builders, AT&T, Business Objects, Hyperion, the U.S. Government, FMI, GMA, CAMP, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and many more.  Keynote speaker for Intel, Microsoft, Palm, Department of Defense, and many more. Has spoken in 14 countries on four continents.

• Quoted frequently as a respected industry speaker and pundit in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, New York Times and other high-profile publications.  Featured in cover stories for Fortune, Forbes, Upside, Wall Street Journal.

• Judged numerous entrepreneurial business plan contests for Stanford Graduate School of Business, UCB Haas School of Business, Northwestern, Harvard Business School

• Assisted the White House and National Performance Review in the formation of the U.S. Government’s technology and intranet strategies (1996-1999)

• Passed a bill through Congress to increase the SBA’s SBIC leverage by over $4 billion. The bill was passed by Congress but vetoed by President Bush, who diverted the funds to the war in Iraq.

Non-Profit Interests:

Hospice patient volunteer since 1998 (www.attitudinalhealing.com and www.HBTB.org), Environmental Entrepreneurs (www.e2.org), Litquake advisory board member (www.litquake.org)

Former Board of Director/Observer roles:

ViewCentral, Motiva (NASDAQ: SEBL), Eletter, Taviz, Toolwire, DataMirror (NASDAQ: DMCX), PlanetU (NYSE: NWS), Corporate Computing (NYSE: CA), Kuvera Associates and more.

Current Board roles:

Member of Advisory and Investment Committees for Novus Ventures, Advisor to Volunteer Match (www.volunteermatch.org), Litquake (www.Litquake.org), Pie Digital (www.piehome.com), Adgregate Networks (www.adgregate.com), Seesmart LED (www.seesmart.com), Access Mobility (www.cellepathic.com), and more.

Financial Management and Growth

• Led her startup Corporate Computing (acquired by Computer Associates, NYSE: CA) in building a customer base of 700 of the Fortune 1000 in three years

• Led her startup planet U (her shares acquired by News Corp, NYSE: NWS), to an increase in value seven-fold in the first 16 months

• Participated in two IPOs: DataMirror (NASDAQ: DMCX, as a Board Director for 4 years) and LBMS (formerly NASDAQ: LBMS, acquired by Computer Associates)

• Secured over $2 billion in venture financing, IPOs, and acquisitions

• Has a personal track record of over 700% gains on the startups she founded, ran, and invested in

Media Appearances/Case Studies:

• Christine has appeared on Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large.

• Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on Christine’s entrepreneurial successes and uncanny ability to grow companies.

• PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV ).

• CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree.