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Christopher M. Schroeder
Christopher M.
Schroeder (born July 28, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, advisor and investor in interactive technologies and social communications.
He has written the first look at startups in the Arab World, “Startup Rising -- The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East” to be published in August 2013 by MacMillan/Palgrave, with a forward by Marc Andreessen.
Schroeder was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and raised in Scarsdale.
His parents are Edmund R.
Schroeder (formerly of Cadwalader) and Elaine Diserio Schroeder.
Edmund Schroeder is the founder of Education Through Music, which offers music programs to inner city schools.
Elaine Schroeder began college at age 14 and Fordham Law School at 18, and practiced law in New York City.
His mother was active in, and chairman of, the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York.[citation needed] Schroeder graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in American and Ancient History (where he studied with Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald) and international diplomacy historian Ernest May.
He subsequently graduated with Honors from Harvard Business School.
Shroeder worked in finance for Salomon Brothers and the private equity firm Thayer Capital Partners, and was Treasurer and head of business development for The Washington Post Company Schroeder has been a thought leader and organizer in various internet organizations.
He was one of the first board members of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a co-founder of the Online Publishers Association, and founding member of the Digital Health Coalition.
He was one of the first interactive executives named to the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Hall of Achievement, among the top tech business executives to watch by Business Forward Magazine, Media Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine.
He was named PharmaVOICE’s Top 100 Most Inspiring People in Life Sciences.
Schroeder has also recently been engaged in exploring more global trends towards entrepreneurship, with a special focus on the developing world and the Middle East.
He has been a speaker on trends in global entrepreneurship for the COE 2010 gathering of regional entrepreneurs and investors in Dubai, Endeavor’s gathering of global entrepreneurs and the Abraaj Capital annual meeting.
He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the American University of Cairo School of Business and Oasis500, a leading incubator committed to funding 500 start-ups in Jordan.
He has written and spoken extensively on trends in media, the internet and global environment for The Washington Post, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, Fortune Magazine, C-SPAN and TechCrunch
