Christopher oversees sales, account management and production at INN. IN 2007, Chris co founded Dig Media, INN’s parent company, with Nick Smith and Mike Rodger.

Prior to Dig Media, Christopher was a Publisher with Kyoto publishing and led two thought leadership publications, ‘The Sustainable Enterprise Report’ and ‘Government by Example with Deloitte’, to market.

Before Kyoto Publishing, he was a senior client development manager with LinkShare, a Rakuten company where he consulted with the Internet’s largest retailers to assist them become more profitable using LinkShare’s performance marketing solutions.

In 1999, Christopher was recruited to join Montgomery Research. At Montgomery Research, Christopher climbed through the ranks working on thought leadership projects. In 2004, he and Nick Smith launched Revenue – The Performance Marketing Standard, an industry leading affiliate-marketing publication that took profit within its first year. In 2005, Christopher assumed the role of publisher and further developed the magazine’s online properties and grew revenue streams and profits.

He was at the heart of the IPO phenomenon with Media Metrix, where Christopher worked as sales director selling Internet audience measurement data to all the Internet start ups and businesses across North America.

Prior to moving west from Florida to San Francisco, Christopher commenced his career as a marketing director of the largest catamaran yacht dealership in North America.

Christopher holds a business administration degree from the University of Florida.

Pallavi Rao is a graduate student at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media in Vancouver, British Columbia. She also works as a financial journalist with BCBusiness and is a research assistant at the Global Reporting Center.

Melissa Pistilli has been reporting on the markets and educating investors since 2006. She has covered a wide variety of industries in the investment space including mining, cannabis, tech and pharmaceuticals. Working for the Investing News Network since 2008, and formerly the first managing editor of the Investing News Network, Melissa now serves as Senior INNspired Content Developer. She helps to educate investors about opportunities in a variety of growth markets. Melissa holds a bachelor's degree in English education as well as a master's degree in the teaching of writing, both from Humboldt State University, California.

Isabel Armiento works as an investment writer for Investor's Digest newspaper and writes freelance for other publications, such as This magazine and Poynter. She holds a master's of English literature from the University of Toronto, where she worked as a student journalist for four years, and currently serves as the blog news editor for Canadian feminist magazine Shameless.

A Vancouver native, Charlotte has a BA in English and a Certificate in Editing from Simon Fraser University. She has an eye for detail and is passionate about creating and curating great content.

Charlotte began working at the Investing News Network in the spring of 2012 as editorial assistant, and has been hooked on mining since then. She's now editorial director for INN, and is always interested in hearing the latest mining news (and gossip).