Christopher Hedrick

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Christopher Hedrick "Chris Hedrick" (born 1962) is the President and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions, a Seattle, Washington-based learning services company. ([1]) He founded the company in 1999.

Previously, he served as the Technology Policy advisor to the Governor of Washington state, Gary Locke. Prior to that he was the founding Director of Strategy and Operations for the Gates Library Foundation, [2] the predecessor organization to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Library Foundation grew out of a program Hedrick created and managed at Microsoft.

He has been a senior adminstrator at the Peace Corps, where he worked for Carol Bellamy; served in the administration of Washington Governor Booth Gardner; was elected to the Olympia, Washington School Board; and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and a graduate of Stanford University. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Evergreen State College[3], the Treasurer of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) [4], the largest recipient of Gates Foundation funding for global health, and the Chairman of the Board of the Digital Learning Commons.[5]

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