Christopher Radko

Christopher Radko is an American businessman and designer known for starting the eponymous Christmas ornaments business. He is called the "Czar of the Christmas Present" by The New York Times and the "Ornament King by the Chicago Tribune.

Biography Radko grew up in Scarsdale, New York, the son of two doctors. He skipped his senior year of high school and started college at 16. He graduated from Columbia University in 1981.

Out of college, Radko first worked as a mailroom clerk at ICM Partners. Unable to find replacements of the ornaments, Radko started his own ornaments business and sourced the ornaments from Polish craftsmen that he met on a trip. He sold $25,000 worth of ornaments during his first year by visiting door-to-door to Manhattan retailers on his lunch hour. His earliest customers included celebrities such as Katharine Hepburn, Woody Allen, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Whoopi Goldberg and Bruce Springsteen, In 2022, he won a legal challenge against Rauch Industries to use his name for his new line of original ornaments. He originally signed a non-competition agreement with Rauch that expired as of August 15, 2021, but the company filed a motion to prohibit Radko from using his name in association with his new company. He lives in Westchester County, New York.