Christine Gulbranson

Dr. Christine Gulbranson is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and innovator. She has served as CEO, chief innovation officer, venture capitalist (VC)/investor, board director, and adviser for large and small, public and private corporations, family offices, and nonprofit organizations.

Christine is CEO of strategic advisory firm Christalis. She was CEO and director of a private family foundation office for impact investing, Chief Innovation Officer of the University of California System, general partner at VC firm GCP, and senior investment adviser to a family office in Europe. She was a judge on Discovery Channel’s Big Brain Theory to find the “next great American innovator,” which aired in over 100 countries, as well as a scientist at LLNL. Christine has been recognized by Silicon Valley Business Journal as top 40 under 40 business leaders, innovator for the 21st century by MIT's Technology Review, and UC Davis’s distinguished engineering alumni in business.

Christine grew up in rural Northern California and Germany and is a first-generation college graduate. By age 25, she earned five degrees from UC Davis—BS in physics, a BS, MS, and PhD in materials science and engineering, and an MBA.