Bio

Chris Coetzee is a Managing Director and founding member of the Financial Sponsor Group. Chris has 30 years of investment banking experience. Since joining Baird in 1994, Chris has provided financing and advisory services to companies in the business services, telecommunications, consumer, healthcare and industrial sectors. Chris was previously a Vice President with Kidder, Peabody & Co.’s Midwest Investment Banking Group. Chris received his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Honors in Financial Management and Commerce from the University of Cape Town. He is also a Chartered Accountant and a C.P.A., and has six years of experience in public accounting with Grant Thornton in the U.S. and Ernst and Whinney in South Africa. Chris is a member of the Advisory Board of Teach for America, Chicago.