Biography
Chris Wasden's professional work has spanned healthcare strategy, global innovation advisory, university-based innovation leadership, finance, and education. Past experience includes Chief Strategy Officer roles in digital health, Global Healthcare Innovation Leader at PwC (New York City), Executive Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation at the University of Utah, M&A practice at JPMorgan, and earlier work at Koch Industries and Azurix in the energy sector. He was a co-founder of Tympany, one of the earliest AI medical technology companies, a past advisory board member at QualcommLife, and a current board member of the Center for Health System Innovation at Oklahoma State University.
He holds an EdD in Human and Organizational Learning from George Washington University, with a dissertation on how tension creates energy in Complex Adaptive Systems. He is conversational in Korean, has studied Mandarin in Taiwan, and has lived, worked, and traveled in 57 countries. He is currently adjunct professor of finance at Ensign College, where he designed and deployed two courses now running on the Crucibl methodology: FIN 485 (the finance capstone, Winter 2026, with the case study currently in peer review) and FIN 345 (Financial Institutions, launched May 5, 2026 as Crucibl's second production deployment).