Christopher Boden

President, Chief Executive Officer

The epitome of a Type-A personality, Christopher Boden is a passionate, charismatic leader and the primary guiding force behind the Group. As the founder of The Geek Group and two other successful companies (Applied Intellect and Mach-1 Productions) Chris is out to do nothing less than change the world and does nothing to try and hide this fact.

Chris grew up in rural southwest Michigan in the small town of Coopersville. While living at Grand Valley State University in the early 90’s his natural lifestyle of building projects, having adventures, and sharing all of this with his friends evolved into what would become The Geek Group.

Chris has a broad set of interests and is fascinated with everything from engineering and physics to music and art, a true renaissance man, Chris believes in learning everything there is to know about everything that interests him. His loves include mechanical and electrical engineering, high voltage physics, music performance and composition, and a million other things.

While the primary motivation in Chris’s life is by far his work, he plays hard as well. Chris’s hobbies include long-range precision shooting, playing jazz and rock percussion, cruising the country roads on his motorcycle, and hopping the occasional freight train.

	Chris Boden has taken being a class clown and turned it into a career.
	The first thing you need to know is that Chris is a 12 year old boy, he does this because it's fun and he loves the job, that's it. Chris is a very simple person, he loves to tinker, to build amazing things, and to share those things with anyone who wants to learn about them and play as well.
	I never set out to become a teacher and build the weirdest experiment in education, I wanted to play the drums in a jazz band. This happened because it had to, I built the Group because nobody else would and it needs to exist. We have a world full of people who are growing up to be button pushers and can't actually fix anything because they have no idea how the objects in their world work. I want to build a place where people can come in, pick up a tool, and create something." - C.Boden
	"I don't care what people think. I didn't set out to be cool or to make people like me or to make everyone happy. If I wanted to do that I'd bury all of my personal opinions and run for President. I want to change the world. I want to make people think. I don't care if they love me or hate me so long as they have an honest opinion and I can make them just stop for a moment and question the why and how of their thoughts." - C.Boden
Chris setting up the giant robotic arm that became Project Jeff.	"How do you do it? I've never seen anyone who can maintain the rapt attention of seventy young children for over an hour and a half nonstop?" - Parent at one of our shows. "Simple, lightning, fire, and an air-raid siren. I'm not giving a lesson, I'm just sharing my toys and together we're having a blast" - C.Boden
	"...upon meeting Duck, at least for me, his words to me were, “come join me and help me change the world”, “drink the cool-aid”, and other such things. I’m certain all of you are familiar with this in one form or another. Did you think that was just a witty clever thing to say at the moment? He’s serious about that. His vision, your effort and input. He doesn’t make any attempts to disguise this as anything else. He also does nothing to hide the fact that he is the original Peter Pan and egocentric megalomaniac…. Who just happens to be brilliant and has a good idea." ---Occamsrazor
Chris during the "Saltwater Caps" video shoot.	If you had to describe Chris Boden on one word, it would undoubtedly be "charisma".
The 2006 Christmas Promo video shoot.
	Chris walked into a bank to cash a check and struck up a conversation with the teller across the counter. The next day, for no particular reason, she was on top of his car wearing a bikini and a labcoat with her dog in the middle of the Kalamazoo Do-Da parade. This happened simply because she had always wanted to be in a parade, it was a little dream of hers. That's the kind of thing Chris does every day. He comes bounding into your life and instantly has some manner of profound effect on you. There was no reason to have her on top of the car, she just wanted to and Chris thought it would be fun. I honestly think that the only reason Chris was in the parade in the first place was because he wanted to drive in traffic downtown with the lights and siren going, because it's fun.
	"He has this strange gift of taking the most complex scientific concepts, things that will really twist your brain into knots, and making them understandable. He translates Geek into Human, that's why we hired him." -J.Rollins
	"I touched it, I can't believe they actually let me in here in the first place, much less let me go and touch it. Do you understand how important this thing is? It's history! This is an engine to a Saturn V, our first real step off-world. I wonder if they'd notice if we swiped it and mounted it to the car." -C.Boden
	"For all the time I spend as the center of attention, nobody ever seems to notice that I'm actually a very solitary person. Just give me some rope and a rock and I'm perfectly fine by myself for days."
	Chris is a very improvisational person. He usually has no idea what the next thing out of his mouth is (often to his detriment) and has an amazingly fast wit. Once at the beginning of a demonstration at the 2nd St labs we had a kid toggle off a dry-chem fire extinguisher. It made a nasty cloud in the room and we had to take everyone outside while it settled. Chris didn't just send them home and reschedule the show. Even though all of the gear was inside he just went out into the parking lot with the whole group, over 60 kids, and did a whole show with just the yoyo he had in his pocket. The whole thing was off the cuff, nothing we ever do is scripted. He made it up as he went along and the kids had a blast. He covered concepts of physics and inertia and made it fun, it was all just a yoyo and Chris standing out there in a leather jacket instead of a labcoat. In the end, he still refunded their money (because he never got to teach the class they came for which was electricity and magnetism) and they rebooked for several more shows. The teachers were amazed.
	Chris is an avid percussionist and has been playing seriously for about the past eight years off and on (it's hard to play when the drumset is in storage for months at a time). Chris developed an interest in drums because of the mathematical aspects of percussion, the physical challenge, and the fact that he can simultaneously have the biggest instrument on stage and hide behind it at the same time. Chris has a passion for all things percussion and his current setup is a testament to that fact.
	Chris has played shows at several Kalamazoo area venues over the years with a variety of bands. Be was the drummer for Mephitic for the entire duration of the band's existence (they broke up when Pfizer did the layoffs and members moved all over the country). Chris has done a few dozen shows with a other bands since then but is currently focusing more on the construction of the new studio than doing life shows.
	"I don't mind playing the bar shows, I just hate having to move all that gear. I want to build the studio and let people come here to play." - C.Boden