Our Team

Christopher M. Marlowe, Managing Director

Christopher is a Managing Director of The Silverfern Group and brings over 10 years of Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity experience to the Silverfern team. Christopher has completed over $30 billion in private equity-backed transactions and has been responsible for advising private equity clients on financings, acquisitions, and exits in both the public and private markets.  His experience spans a number of industries but he has developed specific industry expertise in Technology, Consumer, Retail, General Industrial and Healthcare.
 
Prior to joining Silverfern, Christopher was responsible for running Wachovia Securities’ West Coast Financial Sponsors Practice where he led a team charged with covering private equity firms located on the West Coast.  Christopher’s responsibilities included advising on and raising financing to support leveraged buy-outs and recapitalizations, advising private equity-backed companies through the IPO process and providing private equity firms with Mergers & Acquisitions advice.  Christopher was a member of the initial team responsible for opening the Wachovia Securities office on the West Coast in 2001.

Based in San Francisco, Christopher leads Silverfern’s West Coast Private Equity Coverage effort which includes coverage of private equity firms located in California, the Pacific Northwest and Chicago.

Christopher earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Hampden-Sydney College.