Bio

Chris is a Managing Director at Raine. While at Raine, Chris has executed numerous investments and advisory assignments, helping clients and portfolio partners develop and execute on their growth strategies through a variety of engagements across Raine’s technology, media and telecom verticals. Chris is involved in Raine’s growth equity investments and portfolio companies, including helping to lead Raine’s recent commitment to Televisa-Univision and its position in Vice, the latter of which he serves as a board observer. Notable advisory assignments include the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile and SoftBank’s subsequent $20 billion stake sale; the $40 billion sale of ARM to NVIDIA; the development and execution of Endeavor’s corporate strategy, including its parent and China carve-out capital raises, 10+ acquisitions (including its acquisition of On Location Entertainment) and the Company’s initial public offering; advising SoftBank on the restructuring of WeWork; advising the MSG Entertainment Special Committee on its proposed merger with MSG Networks; helping formulate Fandango’s international expansion strategy and resulting acquisitions of Ingresso and Cinepapaya in Latin America; and advising Starz’s Special Committee on its sale to Lionsgate. Prior to joining Raine, Chris worked in the Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Citigroup, where he worked on key media and telecom M&A and financing transactions, including Sprint’s sale to SoftBank, Sprint’s acquisition of Clearwire and Providence’s acquisition of HSE24. Chris has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.