General Catalyst Leadership

Executive-Level Compliance Strategist with Vision of the future, balancing decades of corporate, ethics, legal, operations, and regulatory compliance experience with a passion for technology and an eye for industry disruption. C-Suite executive with exceptional communication skills and proven business acumen. Frequent public speaker on expert design+build for risk-intelligent, cost-effective, scalable programs that protect and enhance enterprise value with demonstrable ROI. Engineer's approach infused with high EQ and artist's hand for innovation and technology in strategy, policy, risk, compliance, audit, and legal functions that flex through rapid change.Current position: Chief Compliance Officer at General Catalyst.Founder of Compliance By Design LLC, a boutique compliance consultancy [currently inactive].FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 & 99 [inactive]Attorney admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of MassachusettsCertificate in Artificial Intelligence in Business Strategies from MIT's Sloan School of ManagementCertificate in Fintech: Future Commerce from Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLL.M. in Financial + Banking Law from Boston University School of Law’s Morin CenterJ.D. cum laude from Suffolk University Law SchoolB.A. from Boston College

Chris is the General Counsel for GC and provides legal counsel relating to investments and corporate matters. Prior to GC, Chris was a corporate associate in the Boston office of Cooley LLP where he represented leading venture capital firms and private and public corporations in a wide variety of transactions. Prior to joining Cooley, Chris was an associate with Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, where he focused on venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. Chris is a graduate of Boston College, earning a B.A. and Boston College Law School, where he received a J.D.

Executive-Level Compliance Strategist with Vision of the future, balancing decades of corporate, ethics, legal, operations, and regulatory compliance experience with a passion for technology and an eye for industry disruption. C-Suite executive with exceptional communication skills and proven business acumen. Frequent public speaker on expert design+build for risk-intelligent, cost-effective, scalable programs that protect and enhance enterprise value with demonstrable ROI. Engineer's approach infused with high EQ and artist's hand for innovation and technology in strategy, policy, risk, compliance, audit, and legal functions that flex through rapid change.Current position: Chief Compliance Officer at General Catalyst.Founder of Compliance By Design LLC, a boutique compliance consultancy [currently inactive].FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 & 99 [inactive]Attorney admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of MassachusettsCertificate in Artificial Intelligence in Business Strategies from MIT's Sloan School of ManagementCertificate in Fintech: Future Commerce from Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLL.M. in Financial + Banking Law from Boston University School of Law’s Morin CenterJ.D. cum laude from Suffolk University Law SchoolB.A. from Boston College

Chris is the General Counsel for GC and provides legal counsel relating to investments and corporate matters. Prior to GC, Chris was a corporate associate in the Boston office of Cooley LLP where he represented leading venture capital firms and private and public corporations in a wide variety of transactions. Prior to joining Cooley, Chris was an associate with Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, where he focused on venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. Chris is a graduate of Boston College, earning a B.A. and Boston College Law School, where he received a J.D.

Mark Allen is a Chief Financial Officer at General Catalyst and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd and has worked as Manager of Financial Reporting at Summit Partners, Senior Associate at PwC, and Fund Controller at AUDAX GROUP. Mark works or has worked as MEMBER at Private Equity CFO Association. He studied at D Amore McKim School of Business between 2004 and 2007, University of Vermont between 1995 and 1999, and Northeastern University.

Molly Blaauw Gillis is a Partner and Chief Communications Officer at General Catalyst. Molly Blaauw Gillis attended Emerson College.