Chris Grams

New Kind

Raleigh, NC, UNITED STATES

President and Partner at New Kind

Biography

Chris Grams builds sustainable brands, cultures, and communities in and around companies and organizations. The open source way—including themes like openness, collaboration, transparency, community, and meritocracy—is a key influence in his work.

He is the author of The Ad-Free Brand: Secrets to Building Successful Brands in a Digital World and is the Community Guide at Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation Exchange. Chris blogs on brand, community and culture at Dark Matter Matters. He has over 15 years of experience in the communications field, including 10 years at Red Hat, where he played a key role in building the brand and culture, recently in the role of Senior Director, Brand Communications + Design.

Before Red Hat, Chris did a two year tour of duty at IBM, and has also been an editor and literary agent in the book publishing industry. He currently resides in Raleigh, NC, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.