Summary
Chris Lever is a founder and director with 30+ years of finance and business-systems experience, and 11 years leading his own consultancy, Agency DNA, which helps creative, media and marketing firms build scalable commercial operations. He has a proven track record as a senior finance executive—driving M&A value, leading buyouts, and establishing shared services across major UK agencies including Arena/Havas, Engine, and DMB&B. Comfortable at the intersection of finance, operations and technology, Chris designs practical systems that shift organisational behaviour and enable rapid growth. He’s equally at ease raising capital and tightening controls, having led a $4M funding round that helped create Australia’s largest online mortgage broker. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings a hands-on, results-oriented style shaped by early audit and consultancy roles and a knack for turning messy legacy processes into orderly, scalable businesses. Colleagues would note his appetite for tough transformations and an almost forensic attention to the commercial detail behind creative firms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Economics at Macquarie University, Sydney