Christopher Liedel

Christopher Liedel has worked at the intersection of sports, education, media, science, and philanthropy, helping institutions broaden their reach, increase their impact, and expand access. He serves as Vice Chair and Managing Director of Tyton Partners.

Chris spent more than 15 years at National Geographic, including as EVP and CFO, where he helped launch National Geographic School Publishing and its World English program and helped launch and expand the National Geographic Channel internationally. He later served as President of Smithsonian Enterprises, helping expand the Smithsonian Channel and co-create a Museum Studies program with Harvard, where he served as an instructor. He then became founding CEO of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Hall of Fame, created to capture America's history in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement.

In sports, Chris served on the USGA Executive Committee, helping expand membership to more than 1.5 million, and as an Independent Director of the PGA of America, where he helped establish its Innovation Committee and the EP Golf Fund with Elysian Park Ventures.

He served six years on the board of National Philanthropic Trust, including three as Chair; NPT now puts more than $10 billion annually to work through charitable grants. His work with the Nobel Foundation included collaborating with Nobel Laureates to help create two physics institutes associated with scientists at Penn State and MIT.