Christopher Wright is chairman of Kestrel Partners LLP, an asset management firm focused on the UK software sector, and a director of Merifin Capital, a single family investment company based in Europe. Until 2003 he was a Group Management Board Member of Dresdner Kleinwort, part of Allianz SE, and was CEO of its global alternative assets division working from NYC/Frankfurt/London. He has sat on the boards of publicly listed and private companies across Europe and the USA, and of private companies in Brazil, South Africa, India and China. Christopher is a director of Spice PE A.G. and also of GP Investments Ltd., both listed European companies. He is Hon. Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, sitting also on its Endowment Board, and is (pro bono) a director of the Sutton Trust, an educational charity.
