Chris has more than 30 years’ experience working as a real estate specialist, with a background in investment banking, equities research and investment management. Chris is a co-founder of Quay Global Investors, and co-launched the Quay Global Real Estate Fund (Unhedged) with Justin Blaess in 2014.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Business degree from UTS, with majors in Accounting, Finance and Economics. He was awarded the Securities Institute Diploma in 1994.

Prior to co-founding Quay, Chris was a senior member in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Credit Suisse in Sydney and previously Head of Real Estate Investment Banking Asia at Deutsche Bank. In prior roles, he led real estate equities research teams at Deutsche Bank, HSBC James Capel and ANZ McCaughan where he was consistently ranked as a top three research analyst for listed property.

Chris is experienced in equity and equity-linked capital markets transactions, M&A and debt issuance, with direct involvement in numerous cross border real estate transactions between Australia and the US, Europe, Japan, UK, Brazil and Singapore.