Chip has spent 25 years in education as a leader, program developer, technologist, futurist, and funder, turning emerging technologies into impactful services and companies. In his current role as Director of Innovation at the Roanoke Blacksburg Innovation Alliance and Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council, he leads innovation and entrepreneurship programming, supports major grant programs related to additive manufacturing and advanced materials, and advances economic development initiatives focused on talent and the business ecosystem.

Chip’s prior roles span the breadth of education, from funding and innovation to new business support, policy, instructional design, and teaching. As the first Director of the Colopy Entrepreneurship Program at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, he launched a major new innovation and entrepreneurship initiative at the nation’s #1 public high school. At Stand Together, he served as a funder supporting educational progress through a $91 million dollar portfolio focused on career and technical education (CTE) and emerging technologies, as well as a fellowship focused on the future of academia. At Duke University, he spent a decade as a senior technologist and Innovation Architect, building one of the largest and most recognized programs of its kind in higher education, earning recognition among Newsweek's Top 50. During his time at Duke, Chip developed considerable intellectual property, contributed to scholarly research, and led high-profile public-facing projects for the university and medical system.

He frequently collaborates with innovators, entrepreneurs, and funders and has been involved in developing numerous products, services, publications, and inventions. Chip has also taught at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and served as an Emerging Technologist and Director at UNC Wilmington, where he pioneered the use of streaming media in education. His efforts there earned him the Employee of the Year award and a nomination for North Carolina State Employee of the Year.

Outside his institutional roles, Chip co-founded Construct3D, a company turned nonprofit focused on professional development and advancing the national dialogue around innovation centers and programming. Through this work, he is a frequent speaker on Industry 4.0, media, and other educational technologies. He holds a graduate degree in Instructional Technology and is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. His current passion projects focus on next-generation digital credentials, aimed at quantifying and verifying learners’ competencies faster and more accurately, as well as bridging the gap between CTE and traditional academia. He has worked to implement these technologies and advocated for the development of a $15 million fund to support these programs.