Chris Colpitts

Chris Colpitts is a Senior Managing Director at CVC Capital Partners, where he leads the firm's U.S. Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice out of the San Francisco office. He was hired into the role in March 2016, joining from Deutsche Bank, where he had served as Global Co-Head of TMT Investment Banking, also based in San Francisco. At the time of his hire he was described as having more than 18 years of experience working with local and global technology companies in the San Francisco and wider Bay Area.

Before Deutsche Bank, which he joined in 2006, Colpitts was a Managing Director and Global Head of Electronics Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. Over his banking career he advised on major technology M&A, including Avago Technologies' acquisition of Broadcom Corporation — characterized at the time as the largest strategic transaction in the technology sector since 2000. According to CVC's announcement, Colpitts had known CVC Managing Partner Christopher J. Stadler for roughly 20 years prior to joining the firm.

At CVC, Colpitts sits within a large-cap, control-oriented private equity platform. CVC Capital Partners is one of the world's largest PE and alternative asset managers, and Colpitts' remit is to source, evaluate, and lead U.S. TMT buyout investments rather than to make early-stage angel or seed checks. On joining, he said he was "very excited to be joining CVC, a company with such an impressive track record, truly global network and expertise across industries."

• Invests as a control/majority private equity buyer, not an angel — deals are large-cap and upper-middle-market buyouts funded from CVC's flagship funds (e.g., CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII and successors).
• Sector concentration in TMT: telecommunications, media, software, semiconductors/electronics, and technology-enabled services, drawing on his investment-banking specialization in the technology and electronics sectors.
• Geography: leads CVC's U.S. TMT effort from San Francisco, positioned to work with Bay Area and Silicon Valley technology companies while leveraging CVC's global network.
• Stated attraction to CVC's "impressive track record, truly global network and expertise across industries" — signaling a preference for scaled, globally leverageable platform businesses.