Chris Staffel is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a diverse background in energy, healthcare technology, and agriculture. As an entreprenuer, she has founded, scaled, and taken startup companies public with an aggregate exit valuation of $1.38 billion. As an investment manager, she has founded her own investment firm as well as served as Managing Director for a venture capital investment firm for Fortune 500 executives and has led fundraising, sourcing, due diligence, negotiations, IPO preparedness, and exit strategies. Chris holds a BM from Wheaton College Conservatory, MFA from the University of Central Florida, & MBA from Rice University.