Chris Saenger

Bio

Mr Saenger is representing Management Capital Holding in New York, US. He is President at Reliant Star Capital and has over 15 years of private equity experience, including venture capital, and leveraged buyout transactions. He was Partner at One Equity Partners (“OEP”), the US$ 5 billion private equity fund of J.P.Morgan/Bank One where he led investments in a variety of industries including aviation and insurance. Mr Saenger has completed dozens of acquisitions and add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies. In addition, with most of those investments he participated with a seat on the board of directors. During his tenure there, Mr Saenger took a leave of absence at OEP to work directly for Jamie Dimon, then the newly appointed CEO of Bank One. Mr Saenger led a 5 persons “skunk works” team that worked on a variety of projects including technology reviews of various departments, competitive benchmarking, acquisition target analysis and market research. Before joining OEP, Mr Saenger worked for Landmark Partners, the venture capital and secondary investment firm. He started his career with CIVC, the private equity group of Continental Bank. The co-heads of CIVC, Avy Stein and John Willis, now run their own private equity firm in Chicago, known as Willis Stein Partners. Mr Saenger earned a BS in economics cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA with a double major in finance and entrepreneurial management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.