Christopher P. Lynch (born April 22, 1963) is an American venture capitalist. He invested in sqrrl,[1] DataRobot,[2]Threat Stack,[3] Nutonian [4] and Hadapt.[5] He co-founded hack/reduce, a Boston-based Big Data incubator in May 2012.[6] Lynch was a founding member of ArrowPoint communications and Acopia Networks where he was CEO. Additionally, he was CEO at Vertica System.