Christopher Marston is Managing Director of Valiant. Former CFO of a Fin-tech company with a successful exit, Principal of a FINRA-Member investment bank, Christopher brings 15 years of executive management as CEO of Exemplar, a national investment bank, tax firm, advisory, and corporate law firm, to Valiant. Having selected, negotiated, overseen, and managed high-profile litigations, Christopher brings exceptional financial savvy and experience to Valiant to manage tort selection, risk evaluation, and mitigation, as well as litigation counsel selection based on track record of success and top settlements. Christopher is currently a deal-attorney, investment banker, and dealmaker and works with Exemplar’s top market-disruptive clients on everything from capitalization, deal-making, securities, negotiations, through acquisition and exit. A successful operator, P&L leader, driver of growth and returns, Marston’s ability to size up and structure winning partnerships is second to none.

The life lived that shaped Christopher, includes Suffolk University Law School, J.D., Suffolk University, Sawyer School of Management M.S.F. (Master of Science in Finance), Northeastern University, B.S.B.A: Dual Major: Finance and Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management. To list all his recognitions and honors received in academia would be overkill, but a few worth mentioning are the Harold B. Goodwin: Trial Advocacy Scholarship, the Harold B. Goodwin: Best Trial Advocate Award, and the Distinguished Oral Advocate. Christopher’s current memberships include the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association. Christopher sits on the board for the Center for Integral Wisdom and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. He is a Fellow for the VerSage Institute and a Mentor for the Inner-City Entrepreneurs (ICE) Program.

Christopher is passionate and dedicated to building his company and often shares his knowledge and excitement as a keynote speaker on this topic around the globe. Several noteworthy speaking engagements as keynote are the Managing Partners Summit London, England, the Annual Partner Conference of Mannheimer Swartling Stockholm Sweden, the Boston Redevelopment Authority “Exemplar Business Model & Legal Issues Facing New Ventures,” the Massachusetts Bar Association Faculty “Starting and Running a Small Firm,” and the Harvard Club “The Exemplar Business Model.” In addition to his blog, “Inside the Firm of the Future,” Christopher’s publications can be found in the Boston Bar Association, the American Bar Association “Law Practice Magazine,” College of Law Practice Management “Innovacation,” and Fortune Magazine. Christopher has also won the “Rising Star Super Lawyers” for two consecutive years and Exemplar was the Inaugural recipient of the American Bar association Innovaction Award in 2006.

And because the work-life balance is an instrumental component of the Exemplar culture, Christopher always has the time to enjoy his family and his faith. He is an avid songwriter and one day will also be known for this talent as well. And finally, Christopher can also be found on the beach playing volleyball in the warm California sun, one of the perks that comes with working within a company that isn’t captive to hourly billing.