Chris Amazeen

Chris Amazeen is an entrepreneur, turnaround manager, and investor with more than 25 years of experience launching, running, restructuring, and investing in companies. His core expertise is in finance, marketing, and customer service, which he has applied across companies ranging from roughly $1 million to $100 million in annual sales and across industries spanning software to financial services. Much of his career has centered on executing turnaround assignments for fundamentally sound businesses facing fixable, short-term challenges.

He founded Funding Strategy Partners (FSP), a small-business investment firm that provided working capital to companies experiencing short-term, fixable difficulties rather than purely making equity bets. (FSP is listed as permanently closed on Crunchbase.) He currently serves as Founder and Managing Partner of Global Resource Advisors LLC and as a Partner at Ideasphere, a long-running management-consulting firm (operating since 1998, having worked with 200+ companies), where his designated focus area is "Financial Recovery & Restructuring Operations."

Earlier in his career, Amazeen held roles at several major financial institutions, including MBNA America (now part of Bank of America), the First National Bank of Chicago (now part of JPMorgan Chase, where he held a Vice President role), and Signature Group (formerly part of GE Capital). This banking and credit background underpins his hands-on, finance-and-operations approach to both turnarounds and early-stage investing.

• Invests as an angel at the seed stage, drawing on operating and turnaround experience rather than passive capital deployment.
• Bias toward "fundamentally good companies experiencing fixable, short-term challenges" — the stated mission of Funding Strategy Partners — i.e., businesses with sound fundamentals that need capital and operational help to get back on track.
• Sector-agnostic but most comfortable in financial services, technology/software, and service businesses, reflecting his career across those industries.
• Values strong finance, marketing, and customer-service fundamentals, and is hands-on with restructuring, working-capital, and operational fixes.