Summary
Chris Lacinak is a founder and CEO with over 15 years building and scaling digital asset strategies that make content easier to access, share, protect, and put to work across cultural heritage, media, education, and government. As head of AVP he has led implementations for more than 250 clients—including the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Spotify, HBO, Meta, MoMA, and Yale—translating complex preservation, metadata, governance, and workflow needs into usable systems. He combines product vision with hands-on leadership in digital preservation and asset management, and also serves as Chair of the Board at Medex Forensics, applying forensic media expertise to legal and corporate challenges. Based in Bondurant, Wyoming, Chris is driven by a data-for-good mindset and a continual focus on improving the usability and sustainability of information ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience