Christine Lawton is an intellectual property revenue strategist. As Founder & CEO of Naviguer LLC, she develops and executes revenue growth plans and provides business development services to media, entertainment, tech, brand, gaming, blockchain, and AI creators to grow IP revenue through innovative business models, strategic transactions, and partnerships. With combined business, operational, technology, and legal expertise – drawn from senior executive content distribution roles at Disney, DreamWorks, Universal, 20th Cy Fox, and Yuga Labs – she  provides uniquely holistic approaches and perspectives to develop IP revenue growth solutions for creative, data, brand, software and other IP assets that leverage new technologies and address complex stakeholder and ecosystem needs.

Prior to founding Naviguer, Christine was Head of IP Strategy & Transactions at Yuga Labs, Inc., where she shepherded key partnerships and strategic alliances with brands like Gucci and PUMA, and guided Cryptopunks, Meebits, Twelvefold, 10KTF, and Otherside brands through IP monetization, NFT and gaming initiatives. Before Yuga, Christine was General Counsel of Wenew, Inc. (founded by, among others, digital artist Mike Winkelmann [a/k/a Beeple] and Guy Oseary), where she oversaw all business and legal affairs, provided operational and product counsel, and was responsible for first-of-their-kind strategic partnerships that created new consumer experiences that connected the worlds of finance, payments, cryptocurrency and blockchain with iconic digital media, music, art and brands. Her duties included oversight of strategic partnerships with TIME, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Endeavor, Wasserman and others, as well as intellectual property, corporate, governance, board, regulatory, and compliance matters. Prior to Wenew, Christine was a partner at Nolan Heimann LLP focused on IP licensing and distribution transactions across film, TV, streaming, consumer technology and consumer goods. Prior to Wenew, Christine held director, SVP, or EVP roles in business and legal affairs at Disney, DreamWorks, Universal Studios, and Twentieth Century Fox at digital and physical home entertainment, streaming, and television distribution divisions.