Christopher Gentry is a founding partner and managing director of Monroe Credit Advisors. He has 25 years of commercial and investment banking experience. Gentry is responsible for originating and executing client engagements. Prior to co-founding Monroe Credit Advisors, he was a director at Concord Financial Advisors where he focused on private placements and buy-side mergers and acquisitions. In 2000 he founded and ran Capricorn Technology Partners Inc., a financial advisory firm focused on high technology private placements of equity. From 1998 to 2000, Gentry was a vice president and business development officer for BankBoston and Fleet Capital where he focused on syndicated senior secured and high-yield bond financings. He also held positions at Mellon Business Credit, Sanwa Business Credit and Fremont Capital Corporation in loan originations, underwriting, relationship management, workouts and field audit.

Gentry is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Finance. He holds and maintains FINRA licenses Series 7 (General Securities Representative) and Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law). Gentry is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, Commercial Finance Association and Association for Corporate Growth.