Managing Director
Chris Burns
White Oak Healthcare Finance · New York
Mr. Burns is a Managing Director at White Oak Healthcare Finance, with a background in structured finance, corporate finance and leveraged finance.
Professional background
At Sector Financial Inc., a Credit Suisse NA affiliate, he was Senior Vice President and Co-Head in the Structured Finance Group. His responsibilities covered origination, underwriting and building the Structured Finance and Corporate Finance platforms.
Before Sector, he was a Managing Director at Capital One Bank, responsible for originating, underwriting and bringing loans to market in its Capital Markets division.
Previously, Mr. Burns was a Managing Director and Head of Consumer, Retail and Restaurant and Leveraged Finance and Co-Head of Industrials and Leveraged Finance at Jefferies & Co. Earlier in his career, he was an executive at Goldman Sachs & Co., most recently Vice President and Co-Head of Industrials Leveraged Finance.
Education and qualifications
Mr. Burns holds an MBA in Finance, Marketing and Management & Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.