Mr. Chris Scarborough is a Managing Director with Fortitude Advisors. Mr. Scarborough has been an investment banker advising companies in the technology and media industries for 25 years. He has served as a strategic and financial advisor to public and private companies, as well as private equity and venture capital firms.
From 2010 through 2019, Mr. Scarborough was a Partner at CODE Advisors, a leading boutique investment bank focused on emerging growth companies in technology and media.
While at CODE, Mr. Scarborough advised numerous founder led companies in multiple transactions, including multiple private financings, IPO, secondary financing, and acquisition advisory for advisory, multiple private financings for Spotify, and pre-IPO financing for Twitter. In addition, Mr. Scarborough advised on The Wirecutter’s sale to The New York Times and Pocket’s sale to Mozilla, among many other transactions.
Prior to CODE Advisors, Mr. Scarborough served as a Director in Technology Group of Credit Suisse from 1998 through 2009. Mr. Scarborough began his career as an Analyst in the M&A Group of DMG Technology Group.
Mr. Scarborough is Executive Director of Mixman Technologies, a startup in the music technology industry. In addition to his role on the Board of Techbridge Girls, he is also a member of the Finance and Audit Committee of the Menlo Park City School District.
Mr. Scarborough graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, with a BAS in Systems Engineering and a BSEcon in Finance and Real Estate.
Mr. Scarborough resides in Menlo Park, CA, and enjoys skiing, biking (mountain and road), hiking, and many other outdoor activities.