Chris Fussell is President of Business Operations at Lila Sciences. A former U.S. Navy SEAL Team officer, he brings deep expertise in organizational design and high-performance leadership to the company. Chris was commissioned as an officer in 1997 and spent 15 years on SEAL Teams, leading SEAL elements in combat zones across the globe, before serving as Aide-de-Camp to General Stanley McChrystal at the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
Prior to LILA, he served as President of McChrystal Group, where he advised senior executives and institutions on building adaptive organizations. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School for Global Affairs.
Chris is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Team of Teams and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of One Mission. He holds a BA from the University of Richmond and an MS in Irregular Warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School, where he received the Pat Tillman Award as the highest peer-rated Special Operations Officer in his program.
