Chris joined Summit Partners in 2001 and co-leads the Growth Products & Services team.

Chris has served as a board director for many companies and is currently a director of Champion Windows, Elevate Brandpartners, Investor Management Services, Invoice Cloud, Salient Partners and Vestmark Financial. His prior directorships include Focus Financial Partners (NYSE: FOCS), optionsXpress (NASDAQ: OXPS, later acquired by Charles Schwab), Progressive Finance (NYSE: AAN, acquired by Aaron's), PSC Info Group (acquired by Roark Capital), Senior Home Care (acquired by Oaktree Capital) and Sun Trading (acquired by Hudson Trading).

Prior to Summit, Chris worked for Morgan Stanley, J.H. Whitney & Co. and Sun Microsystems. He holds a BA in history, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Business School.