Chris Valentine

Senior Managing Partner
Celeres

Prior to Co-founding Celeres, Mr. Valentine was a Co-Founder & Co-managing partner of TSU Capital, a boutique financial firm advisory headquartered in New York, offering strategic and advisory services for institutional clients with a focus on structured finance, financial services, real estate and energy. Prior to forming TSU, Chris was one of the co-founders and Head of Investment Banking at Bonwick Capital Partners, a boutique investment bank in New York.

Prior to forming Bonwick, Mr. Valentine accumulated over a decade of experience in structured finance, private equity and M&A. Experience in emerging markets via founding Dubai-based consulting firm Valentine & Company as well as being a Director – Private Equity & Real Estate at Istithmar World (a Dubai Sovereign Wealth Fund). Significant investment exposure co-managing a $3.8Bn portfolio of private equity investments in global financial services and a $1.8Bn portfolio of real estate/lodging investments in Africa.

Mr. Valentine began his career in the Global M&A Group at JPMorgan before joining Goldman Sachs, where he split his time between the Principal Finance Group in Structured Products and the Financial Institutions Group in Investment Banking. Accumulating extensive experience in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, private equity investment and direct portfolio management globally; previously a member of several boards of directors for financial services companies internationally.

Chris has a B.B.A. Finance (with an independent study in Actuarial Science) from Howard University in 2001. He lives in San Juan with his wife and four daughters.