Chris McGowan

Chris is the managing partner of CJM Ventures, a growth equity and private equity investment firm founded in 2011 focused on companies located near Chicago and London. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business where he teaches the Private Equity / Venture Capital Lab. Previously, Chris served as a managing director at Madison Dearborn Partners and co-headed their basic industries practice. McGowan is an active angel investor and currently serves as Chairman of the Limited Partner Advisory Committee for Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund 1 (and a member of Fund II and Fund III’s Boards), on the Board of Directors of Hyde Park Angels, and as Chairman of the Advisory Board for Valley Growth Ventures. He is also a board member of 8th Light, Boise Cascade (Chairman of Audit Committee, NYSE: BCC), Cedar Capital, CompanyFirst, Ingenica Solutions, Innovare, Just Hot Tubs, Kinzie Capital, Leadership Lyceum, OPTO International, and Psycle London (observer). He also serves as President of the Friends of Walter Payton College Prep and the SHSAA board of trustees for Stuyvesant High School.