Chris Young
Verified
Chris is the Managing General Partner at Revel. He is a serial entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of the digital video advertising space. Chris serves on the board of directors of Hudson MX, Zype, Receptiv and Collective and is a board observer at STAQ. He formerly sat on the board of Vidible, sold to AOL at the end of 2014.
In 2013, Chris sold Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG), of which he was CEO, to Alloy Digital. Founded in 2008, DBG emerged as content production and video content syndication platform and was at the forefront of creating digital-first content.
Prior to starting DBG, Chris co-founded online video advertising and management solutions company Klipmart in 1999 and grew it into the nation’s largest video rich media vendor taking advertiser’s TV commercials and putting them online. In 2006, under Chris’ leadership, Klipmart was sold to now Google-owned DoubleClick. Chris assumed the role of Executive Vice President of Rich Media and Emerging at DoubleClick.