Chris Lawson is the founder of the Los Angeles-based strategic advisory firm, Olkhon Consulting. Chris developed Olkhon's unique client services after serving nearly 25 years as an agent/executive at Creative Artists Agency, the world’s leading talent representation firm. At CAA, he built a unique and highly regarded department that provided the entertainment industry with connecting points and specialized resources necessary to increase the relevance, authenticity, and commercial prospects of projects across the media landscape. Chris has also worked extensively as a liaison between both private and public sector professionals and organizations that operate outside of the entertainment sphere, but who are regularly depicted on screens big and small (military, medicine, politics & government, the intelligence community, etc.) Chris is originally from Colorado, enjoys time spent traveling abroad, and is a member of organizations that include the Pacific Council on International Policy, the LAWAC, Foreign Policy For America, and the RAND Corp. Policy Circle.
