Christine Maxwell is a 27 year veteran in the publishing, market research, and online information businesses.  She worked as a marketer in publishing for Pergamon Press and Macmillan.  Her first publishing company, started with her twin sister, was called The McKinley Group.  She created one of the first search engines and guide to the Internet, “Magellan.” Then Christine Maxwell founded Chiliad, a software company that specializes in finding data, using natural language search technologies.

Christine Maxwell has developed considerable expertise in information and knowledge retrieval and dissemination.  Her own research company, Research On Demand, has been completing projects for major companies and educational institutions since 1980.  Today, this company is evolving into decision science and how to handle “information overload.”