Chad has financed and produced seventeen documentary and narrative feature films, including Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Emmy, and Academy award winners and nominees. In 2011, he co-founded Freakonomics Media, which today produces one of the world’s most popular podcasts.
Chad is also co-founder and CEO of Veritas Prep, the nation’s largest privately held college test prep and admissions consultancy; Codesmith, an immersive software engineering academy; and Torn Label, a craft microbrewery in Kansas City’s Crossroads Art District.
Chad is a graduate of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, the Yale University School of Management, and the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.