Chris Giles has over 25 years of investing experience. From 2017-2020, Chris was a Partner in Total Card Funding I, LLC (“Total Card”), a non-prime U.S. consumer credit card business. In this role, Mr. Giles oversaw and managed its $100 million financing facility with a large, global asset manager.

Prior to Total Card, Mr. Giles served as a Senior Managing Director at Värde. He spent 15 years at Värde from 2002 to 2017 and was a senior member of a team that led Värde’s U.S. private credit business that invested approximately $5 billion from 2009 to 2014 primarily in financing and acquiring distressed loans/assets. Mr. Giles spent the majority of his time at Värde managing the household investment business in North America that specialized in consumer and residential finance.

From 2018 – present, Mr. Giles has served as an independent Board Member of CL Holdings, LLC, an international group of specialty finance companies providing best in class compliant recovery solutions for consumer credit grantors through its subsidiaries Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC in the United States; Canaccede Financial Group in Canada; and CARS/JCIA in the United Kingdom.  From 2019-present, he has served as a Board Member of Odyssey Resorts, LLC, a resort hospitality management company.

Mr. Giles graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science in Finance in 1992. He also earned his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2003.