Chris Bunzel joined TIFF in 2024 and serves as a Managing Director in the Client CIO Group and Co-Head of Custom Asset Allocation. In this role, Chris collaborates with clients to develop investment strategies and construct portfolios that are designed to help them achieve their objectives.

Before joining TIFF, Chris was a Managing Director at Partners Capital, an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) firm, where he spent 12 years in various roles across the research and Client CIO teams. As a member of the research team, Chris was primarily responsible for sourcing and evaluating public equities managers. As a Client CIO, he served as the lead advisor to many of the firm’s endowment and foundation clients. Chris also sat on Partners Capital’s Global Investment Committee, which drove the overall investment strategy for the firm.

Earlier in his career, Chris was an investment banking analyst at Jefferies and Company. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management with a concentration in Finance and minor in Mathematics from Boston College. Chris is also a member of TIFF’s Investment Committee.