Chris Walla
Senior Director, BATWorks, CIC
Biography
Chris Walla is Senior Director at CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center), and leads the development of CIC’s newest innovation campus, BATWorks. BATWorks is a $100M climate-tech startup hub coming to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, funded by the City of New York. Chris has spent his career building and scaling global startup platforms in climate and deep tech. He has a track record of securing anchor partnerships with leading corporations and governments worldwide to drive innovation activity, including with Amazon, Mitsubishi, Huawei, Unilever, and Fidelity. Most recently, he led global business development at Newlab, a deep tech venture platform in New York City. Before that, he ran startup acceleration programs at Dogpatch Labs, Ireland's leading startup hub.