Chris Youngren

Chris is responsible for the business solutions we deliver based on the technologies and products from the strategic partners. Chris manages these relationships, as well as strategic relationships with other business and technology partners throughout North America. As such, he is responsible for ensuring the clients success with all solutions market, sell and delivery. In addition, as a Vice President, Chris is actively involved in setting the overall strategic direction of the firm.

Chris provides leadership to the clients by creating, reengineering and redesigning business processes and architecting new applications to increase efficiencies by leveraging the partner tools (He has never seen a whiteboard he did not like!).

Since joining Risetime in 2001, Chris has led teams implementing off the shelf and custom solutions for numerous clients representing a diverse cross section of industry - from local/state government and non-profit organizations to financial and healthcare. Prior to joining Risetime, Chris was a Managing Consultant for Xpedior (Metamor Technologies), leading projects and teams in the full life cycle development of custom business solutions for a variety of clients. Chris received his Bachelors Degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign.​