Chris Germain

President & Founder at Piping Rock Partners Inc.

Speaker

Chris Germain founded Piping Rock Partners in 2006 in parallel with the acquisition of our first 58-unit multifamily property in Middletown, Ohio. We still own and manage this property today. Our company's name is derived from Piping Rock Park where Chris learned to play baseball. This name helps communicate our beliefs in the value of teamwork, practice, relationships, and trust.

Piping Rock is now a vertically integrated founding member, general partner, and property manager of five partnerships with approximately $50 million in assets under management and a team of 8 investment and property management professionals. No property owned or managed by Piping Rock has ever been late on a mortgage payment.

Prior to founding Piping Rock Partners, Chris was an Executive Director in the Structured Products Group at CIBC Capital Markets, the investment banking subsidiary of a leading Canadian banking and financial services corporation. At CIBC, he led transaction teams responsible for the origination, syndication and execution of $4 billion in highly structured domestic and cross-border tax and asset-based financings, including debt and equity financings for approximately $1 billion in commercial real estate across numerous market cycles.

Prior to joining CIBC, he was associated with Citigroup’s Global Aviation Group and Global Asset Finance Group, based in New York and London. In London, he managed European originations for an aircraft lease securitization program. In New York, he managed a portfolio of tax lease equity investments in co-generation facilities, nuclear power facilities, ocean-going vessels, and satellites.

Mr. Germain received a B.A. in History from the University of New Hampshire. Mr. Germain is a full member of the Urban Land Institute, an Advisory Council Member of the National Multifamily Housing Council and a member of the Stewardship Circle of the National Park Foundation.