Chris Mayo, CFA
Head of Primary Markets - Americas at London Stock Exchange Group
Chris provides guidance to companies and their shareholders on financing strategy. He helps companies from the Americas across all sectors access high quality institutional capital in London’s public markets. He has approx. 20 years of corporate finance experience in New York and London for Barclays, Salomon Smith Barney, Citi and Schroders and has completed numerous M&A and equity transactions. Before taking up primary markets responsibilities for the Americas, Chris spent two years as the LSE’s specialist in London on the technology and life science sectors with a focus on building LSE’s relationships with venture capital investors. Immediately prior to joining LSE, Chris spent 3 years as an investor and Head of Strategy for an early-stage cloud networking technology managed services company, which exited to a UK technology company. He holds a First Class Honours Degree in International Business and German from Aston University, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and is a CFA Charterholder.