Chris is one of the most recognized and experienced counselors in the field of legal conflict communications. He has more than 30 years of corporate and consulting experience, leading communications strategies for some of the most high-profile and controversial legal battles.

Chris has held communications leadership roles at Texaco, Chevron and Caterpillar, and for a decade led Hill & Knowlton’s global risk & crisis practice, before founding and leading his own boutique consultancy focused on legal conflict communications, reputation risk management and crisis response.

Now a Senior Partner at Maltin PR, Chris heads up our New York office, where his wise counsel and deep experience of litigations and crisis communications provides calm and reliable advice to our corporate clients when the stakes are highest.

Chris rose to prominence in reputation management during the infamous Agent Orange class action lawsuit of the early 1980s. Since then he has directed communications strategies for clients across all sectors and continents, including advising clients on a wide range crisis communications matters including cyberattacks, data breaches, environmental disasters, product recalls, product liability, corporate malfeasance, discrimination, regulatory scrutiny, criminal prosecutions, boycotts and social controversies.

Chris is a pioneer of the concept of Reputation Risk Management, marrying reputation considerations with risk management principals as a means of identifying and quantifying the reputation risks associated with corporate strategies and tactics both inside and outside the courtroom, in order to anticipate and prevent reputation-threatening situations.

Chris writes and lectures frequently on topics related to strategic communications, reputation management and current affairs. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with his wife, and is the father of five.