I build the structure that keeps decisions from drifting under pressure.
Most often this means a sale process or a significant strategic shift — when scrutiny increases and the volume of decisions accelerates.
My focus is on the architecture of good decisions under pressure. That means establishing the narrative and ownership structure before external scrutiny begins — and holding it there. Managing the volume and first-contact pressure as buyers engage. Maintaining coherence when the same story is being tested from multiple directions simultaneously. And ensuring that by the time a decision is made, it is made cleanly, with no reversals that cost credibility at the finish line.
Most advisors engage at a moment. I build the system that holds across the full lifecycle.
My background is in complex, regulated, and technology-enabled environments. I have worked directly with senior executives in operating roles including Chief-of-Staff-type positions and P&L oversight across global infrastructure and technology platforms such as Veolia and Amazon Web Services.
Most deal tools manage process. Vantage is built for something else: what happens to the original story when a transaction gets complex.
In any significant sale process, a leadership team establishes a narrative before external engagement begins — how the business works, what it represents, where it is going. As buyers engage, diligence deepens, and questions multiply across multiple parties and rounds, the conditions for drift accumulate quietly. No single response goes wrong. The story just gradually stops holding.
The narrative is the most consequential artifact of the transaction.
Vantage is built to hold the thread. It carries the narrative baseline established during preparation and tracks everything downstream against it — buyer questions, response drafts, document requests, emerging pressure points — across the full lifecycle of the transaction. The goal is to keep the leadership team oriented to what was established, what is being tested, and where coherence requires attention.
In active use on current engagements.
Christopher Zorn
Platform ArchitectChristopher is a software engineer with 15+ years building production systems at scale, including staff-level roles at Flexport and Zillow. He leads the architecture and engineering of Vantage, translating the operational requirements of live transactions into infrastructure that can support them reliably at every stage of the lifecycle.
Selected Transaction Contexts
Experience includes working alongside leadership teams during complex transitions such as:
- Infrastructure platform sale processes
- Complex diligence environments involving multiple financial sponsors
- Investor narrative preparation during asset sales
- Leadership coordination during operational turnaround contexts
- Strategic pivots involving regulated infrastructure platforms