Chris Britt

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Biography

Mr. Chris Britt is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Marwit Capital. He is a Principal Co-Owner and serves as Co-Chairman at Mountain Mike's Pizza. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at Britt Private Capital. Before founding the firm, he joined Marwit Capital in 1994, partnering with Matthew Witte as co-managing Partner and for the next 22 years the firm and its affiliates completed over 50 buyouts and growth investments across two funds and several deal-specific partnerships. Marwit Capital was founded in 1962 and is one of the oldest private equity firms in existence today. Currently, after more than 50 years as a firm, Marwit Capital is harvesting the last of its existing investments and has decided to not make any new investments. He remains one of two Managing Partners of Marwit Capital along with Matthew Witte. In the eight years before his tenure at Marwit Capital, he was a Corporate Finance affiliate for Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private investment firm, a Partner at BCC Capital Companies, a Southern California-based boutique investment bank, and ESOP advisory firm, and an analyst at Geneva Companies, a Southern California-based middle market investment bank and valuation firm. Previously, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and lead investor of Boot Barn Holdings, Western Emulsions Corporation, Driftwood Dairy, Inc., Fire Grill, LLC, Nupla Corporation, Storyteller Theatres, LLC, and Gregg Gift Company, and also served as a member of the Board of Directors and lead investor of Signature Theatres, LLC, Columbia Aluminum Products, Inc., and T and T Industries, Inc. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University, where he also played baseball, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He also serves as Co-Chairman at Juice It Up!