Chris Unrath Bio

Chris has over 28 years of private equity and private debt experience, and has been focusing exclusively on investing in branded consumer food service companies since co-founding CapitalSpring in 2005. Over the next decade Chris helped build CapitalSpring into one of the most active and successful institutional investors in the US restaurant sector, with offices in New York, Atlanta, Nashville and Los Angeles. At the time of his departure in December 2017, CapitalSpring had in excess of US$1.3 billion of assets under management and an investment portfolio spanning over 4,000 restaurant units across 50 brands. Prior to CapitalSpring, Chris managed the acquisition, oversight and divestment of private businesses on behalf of Ardshiel and GE Asset Management. Chris began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch & Co in New York and London. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Finance from Fordham University.