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Christopher Smith, President, Aquent Graphics Institute

Christopher SmithAs president of Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI), Christopher is responsible for leading the company’s training division.  AGI provides software training, consulting, and support services to professionals and creative organizations.

Christopher co-founded Aquent Graphics Institute (previously American Graphics Institute) in 1994 after leaving Quark, Inc. He quickly grew AGI to become the leading technology training and consulting resource for nearly every major advertising, media, publishing, and marketing firm in North America. In 2007 AGI became part of Aquent.

With more than 15 years of electronic publishing experience, Christopher provides business strategy and change management consulting services to communications professionals and publishers. He is widely considered one of the foremost industry experts regarding electronic publishing software and has authored numerous books, including Real World Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (CS and CS2 versions), InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, Moving to InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite 2 for Dummies, and Sam's Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat in 24 Hours, Adobe Photoshop Elements Classroom in a Book, Adobe Premiere Elements Classroom in a Book. Christopher also manages content for the annual Adobe Acrobat and PDF Conference and the CRE8 Conference held each spring in Orlando, Florida.

Outside of AGI, he has served as an elected member of the School Board in his hometown in suburban Boston, Massachusetts where he had oversight of a $50 million annual budget in an enterprise with more than 900 employees.