Chris Lythgoe

Background

About Chris Lythgoe

Accomplished, professional, loyal, and results -driven IT Executive with a history of delivering transformation across the enterprise, including digitalization, technical debt reduction, colo migration, automation, security-first mindset, and portfolio optimization. Proven communicator, negotiator, team-builder, and leader with a positive attitude. While at Technicolor / Vantiva, some of the value I was able to deliver included: • Separation of Technicolor Creative Studios from Parent Company, Vantiva ahead of schedule and under budget. • Divestiture of the Technicolor Creative Studios Post-Production business on time and on budget. • Delivered a multi-year technical debt reduction program of 120+ projects with 200+ applications optimized, 300+ servers decommissioned, 60k+ vulnerabilities addressed, and $500k+ annual savings. • Executed 40+ mergers and acquisitions (including MPC, The Mill, and Mr. X). • Outsourced key activities saving an estimated $17m annually for site support and infrastructure operations and ~$5m annually for application maintenance and support.