Chris Hull, Ph.D., is CEO and Chairman of BlastRoots, Inc., which uses technology and data to improve advocacy and public affairs. Before founding it, he was executive vice president at a government relations strategy boutique and senior vice president and campaign manager, U.S. Public Affairs, at Hill & Knowlton.
Earlier, he was a press secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives and majority staff director of a state Senate. He has a doctorate in government with distinction from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in government, magna cum laude, from Harvard University. He wrote Grassroots Rules, a book about the U.S. presidential nomination process, published by Stanford University Press.