About

Christopher Budd in the Principal and founder of Christopher Budd Communications, a public relations and communications consulting company that focuses on helping clients prepare for, prevent and manage crisis communications.

Christopher is one of the foremost experts on managing crisis communications for worldwide online security and privacy incidents. Christopher draws on his experience as a ten-year veteran of the Microsoft Corporation, where oversaw and managed worldwide internal and external communications around security and privacy incidents affecting Microsoft customers. During his tenure at Microsoft, he pioneered new strategies and tactics embracing new media technologies that dramatically improved the handling of communications around incidents and helped, as he likes to say, “make awful news just bad”.

Christopher is a seasoned spokesperson and speaker and presenter, having led a monthly security webcast for Microsoft from 2003 to 2009 as well as numerous presentations on communications and technology.

Christopher is a published author of numerous articles on technology and co-author of two books. He has  also authored numerous non-technical articles on topics ranging from history to philosophy and gaming and is a contributing author to a book on the history of philosophy.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Religion from Oberlin College and a Master of Arts in Philosophy with honors from St. John’s College.

His interests include music, which he writes about at Andante, history, psychology, mythology, and comparative religion.

He lives outside of Seattle with his family, including four cats and dog.