Chris Lawson recently launched the Los Angeles based firm, Olkhon Consulting, which offers bespoke creative services to leading artists and organizations across the entertainment industry.  Chris built his unique specialty over the course of nearly 24 years as an agent/executive at Creative Artists Agency, the world’s leading talent representation firm.  There, he built a unique and highly regarded department that provided CAA’s clients with connecting points and specialized resources necessary to increase the relevance, authenticity, and commercial prospects of their projects across the media landscape.  Chris has also worked extensively as a liaison between both private and public sector professionals and organizations that operate outside of the entertainment sphere, but who are regularly depicted on screens big and small (military; medicine; politics & government; the intelligence community; etc.)

Examples of these inter-disciplinary collaborations include work with the C.I.A., F.B.I., United Nations, Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, Library of Congress, N.A.S.A., National Archives, and the National Academy of Sciences, among many others. He began his career at CAA in 1999 – and in keeping with industry lore, he did so in the dark trenches of the agency mailroom.