Summary
Christopher Brown is a founder and executive data scientist with about 15 years of experience building data-driven products and companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He leads Bonafide as Founder and Chief Data Scientist, focusing on helping enterprises compete in the Generative Commerce era, and has run Decision Patterns, a consultancy consortium covering the full data lifecycle. Previously he served as Chief Data Scientist and Head of Enterprise Sales at Adara, where he bridged product, engineering, and commercial teams through agile data practices and drove outcomes ahead of an acquisition. Christopher has taught machine learning at UC Berkeley, creating a popular introductory course that reached thousands of learners, and brings uncommon breadth from materials engineering to statistics. He combines hands-on model and product leadership with operator experience across HR, finance, and compliance, making him equally fluent in technical strategy and business execution. Passionate about generative AI and AGI, he blends entrepreneurial grit with academic rigor to translate cutting-edge research into practical enterprise solutions.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Materials Science and Engineering and Statistics, Materials Science and Engineering and Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
Washington Fundamental
Flintridge Preparatory School
MS Materials Engineering, MS Materials Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Washington Elementary
Statistics, Statistics at Stanford University