Chris Keller

Managing Director at Moelis Asset Management

Speaker

Chris is the Managing Partner of Catalyst Partners and a Managing Director at Moelis Asset Management. Catalyst is a private equity seeding strategy focused on investing in and supporting new and emerging private equity firms. He has a long history of investing in first-time private equity funds. He is co-Portfolio Manager for Archean Capital which seeded 6 first-time funds. Prior to Moelis, he was at Summit Strategies Group, an institutional investment consultant, where he was a Managing Director, Head of Research and Head of Private Markets. In his previous role, Chris committed over $10 billion across 200 private equity funds, including more than 50 first-time funds and emerging managers. He was also an active member on dozens of fund advisory boards. Chris is a Kauffman Fellow, a CFA® charter holder and received an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from The University of Colorado.