Chris Avery

Chris Avery is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking division of Maxim Group LLC, a full-service investment bank headquartered in New York City, where he has served since March 2016. He is a career M&A and corporate-finance advisor with more than 16 years of investment banking experience, having advised clients on over 50 middle-market M&A transactions and financings across a broad range of industries, with a particular concentration in technology.

Before joining Maxim Group, Avery spent roughly a decade (approximately August 2006 to February 2016) as a Managing Director at Triangle Capital LLC, a boutique M&A advisory firm in New York, where he led the firm's Technology and Internet of Things (IoT) advisory effort. It is this former role that gives rise to the [hidden] email address in the stub data.

Earlier in his career, Avery was an equity research analyst at Deutsche Bank, where he was a senior member of the U.S. semiconductor research team (directly responsible for ratings on the small-cap coverage base) and later a member of the wireless-services/telecom research team. He began his professional career as an IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in its Financial Services practice.

Avery holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Finance from Miami University (Ohio).

• Operates as a sell-side / capital-raise M&A advisor rather than a fund investor — his "deals" are advisory mandates, not equity checks, so traditional angel metrics (check size, ownership targets) do not directly apply.
• Sector emphasis on technology and IoT, reflecting his years leading Triangle Capital's Technology & IoT practice and his prior equity-research coverage of U.S. semiconductors and wireless/telecom.
• Focuses on middle-market companies seeking growth equity, recapitalization, or a strategic sale; his stated experience spans "over 50 middle market M&A transactions and financings."
• Brings a cross-border execution capability, noted for coordinating U.S., Europe, and Asia deal teams and for strong sector analysis.