# Evan Urbania

- Link: https://chatterblast.com/team/evan-urbania/
- Published: 2022-02-11T13:12:20-05:00
- Author: Kyle Krajewski

As CEO, Evan leads ChatterBlast by designing service models, building relationships
and anticipating the needs of the agency’s clients. Before ChatterBlast, he served
as a consultant to high-tech and financial services companies such as Hitachi Data
Systems and The New York Stock Exchange. Prior to that, he worked as head of business
development for the 105-year old international architecture and planning firm [H2L2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2L2).

Evan is a graduate of Drexel University where he studied business administration,
marketing, and photography while maintaining membership of the Pennoni Honors College.
Civically minded, he was a founding board member and former President of [The Independence Business Alliance](https://www.thinkiba.com/).
He is currently a board member of [The Philadelphia Foundation](https://www.philafound.org/),
[The Roughwood Center for Heritage Seedways](https://www.seedways.org/), serves 
on Drexel University’s Leadership Council, the Client Advisory Board for [StackAdapt](http://www.stackadapt.com),
and is an appointed commissioner on the [Philadelphia Gas Commission](https://www.phlgc.net/).
He uses his (limited) free time to hike in the Wissahickon, travel abroad and attempt(
unsuccessfully) to understand the world of generative AI.