Chris Thorne

Managing Director

Chris is a Managing Director on the Private Equity team and has over 19 years of experience investing capital across the European and U.S. private equity markets, and over 29 years of industry experience. He is involved in all aspects of the investment process including sourcing, due diligence, monitoring, as well as portfolio strategy and construction.

Prior to joining Aksia in 2021, Chris was a Managing Director and day-to-day responsible for European primary private equity funds and syndicated co-investments at Temasek in London for seven years. Before that, he was a Senior Investment Professional at BlackRock PEP (f/k/a Merrill Lynch Investment Management PEP) for eight years. Prior to that, Chris was on the Corporate Finance Private Equity Advisory team at PwC in London, with secondments to Brussels and Frankfurt.

Chris graduated with a BEng in Civil Engineering from Swansea University and holds an MSc in Management Science from Warwick Business School. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) in the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).