Chris Hughes

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) | M&A & Corporate Transformation | Tech & Consumer Brands | Driving Sustainable Growth & Scalable Turnarounds Through Strategic Market Disruption

📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2018
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Mar 2018
Tala is the first financial platform for the Global Majority. Our leading money app bridges digital and cash ecosystems to deliver instant access to credit, payments, savings, and transfer services to millions of customers on three continents. Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress. Tala has raised nearly half a billion dollars in investments and debt, backed by leading venture and impact investors including Upstart, the Stellar Development Foundation, RPS Ventures, the J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures. Tala has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list four years in a row, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for eight consecutive years. Tala’s impact has been highlighted by the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and TED, among others. Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica with offices in Nairobi, Manila, Mexico City, and Bangalore.
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Jan 2016
About Us: Bedrock Manufacturing builds brands. We are a Dallas-­‐based and privately held strategic development group, building brands in three main areas: entertainment, digital, and consumer products. Bedrock Manufacturing brings innovation, creativity, and business management skills designed to nurture our brands for global growth. Some of Bedrock's stable of brands include Shinola, Filson, Jams and ReelFX. Management: Our management team is experienced. Bedrock Manufacturing is a small team of industry experts with significant experience in consumer products, business-­‐to-­‐business companies; digital marketing, entertainment, real estate, and finance. Note: Bedrock is an Equal OpportunityEmployer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment withoutregard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation,disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodationduring the application process because of a disability, it is available uponrequest. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicantwill be penalized as a result of such a request.
late stageConsumer Goods
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Dec 2015
KLDiscovery provides technology-enabled services and software to help law firms, corporations, government agencies and consumers solve complex data challenges. The company, with 1,000+ employees in 26 locations across 17 countries, is a global leader in delivering best-in-class eDiscovery, information governance and data recovery solutions to support the litigation, regulatory compliance, internal investigation and data recovery and management needs of our clients. Serving clients for over 30 years, KLDiscovery offers data collection and forensic investigation, early case assessment, electronic discovery and data processing, application software and data hosting for web-based document reviews, and managed document review services. In addition, through its global Ontrack business, KLDiscovery delivers world-class data recovery, email extraction and restoration, data destruction and tape management. For information on how we collect, process and retain your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy: https://www.kldiscovery.com/privacy-policy
Experience · 9 entries
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2022
Concord Holdings
Partner
Feb 2022
2020
Partner
Jul 2020
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place. BCG Privacy Policy: https://www.bcg.com/about/privacy-policy.aspx
2019
Principal
Jul 2019
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place. BCG Privacy Policy: https://www.bcg.com/about/privacy-policy.aspx
2018
Investor
Mar 2018
Tala is the first financial platform for the Global Majority. Our leading money app bridges digital and cash ecosystems to deliver instant access to credit, payments, savings, and transfer services to millions of customers on three continents. Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress. Tala has raised nearly half a billion dollars in investments and debt, backed by leading venture and impact investors including Upstart, the Stellar Development Foundation, RPS Ventures, the J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures. Tala has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list four years in a row, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for eight consecutive years. Tala’s impact has been highlighted by the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and TED, among others. Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica with offices in Nairobi, Manila, Mexico City, and Bangalore.
2016
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Aug 2016
Interactions provides Intelligent Virtual Assistants that seamlessly combine artificial intelligence and human understanding to enable businesses and consumers to engage in productive conversations. With flexible products and solutions designed to meet the growing demand for unified, multichannel customer care, Interactions is delivering significant cost savings and unprecedented customer experience for some of the largest brands in the world. Founded in 2004, Interactions is headquartered in Franklin, Massachusetts with additional offices in Indiana, New Jersey and New York. For more information, visit www.interactions.com.
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