Bio

Christopher A. Reed is a principal at Shepard Capital Partners. Prior to joining Shepard Capital, Mr. Reed served as the Chief Executive Officer of Iron Data, Inc. Iron Data is a privately held software and services company with eleven offices worldwide and over 300 employees. Iron Data offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, called Intelligent Process Management, that assess, improve, manage and monitor challenging operational process issues for clients in two key verticals: public sector and transportation/logistics. During his tenure at Iron Data, Mr. Reed engineered buy and sell transactions valued at over $220 million, including the majority sale of Iron Data in early 2011. Prior to joining Iron Data, Reed served as Vice President of Strategic Development for ChoicePoint Government Services (CGS). Mr. Reed was responsible for the direction of CGS external technology investments and strategic partnerships. He arrived at ChoicePoint after they acquired, EzGov, Inc., an e-government software company of which Reed was part of the founding team. While at EzGov, Mr. Reed held executive management positions over both Service Delivery and Global Sales and later became the Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Reed began his career in technology, working for both Accenture and Bank of America. In addition, he was a partner and founder of both Catalina Human Resources, Inc. and Rapid Wave, Inc. He received his Finance degree from Emory University and is a resident of Ponte Vedra, Florida outside of Jacksonville, where he lives with his wife and two sons.