Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization Ahoy Capital
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male Also Known As Christopher Douvos
Website www.superlp.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Chris is a Managing Director and member of the General Partner, having joined VIA in 2011. He is a member of the Firm’s Investment Committee and has responsibility for the management of relationships with the funds’ managers and its limited partners, as well as the identification and development of new relationships for the Firm. He represents VIA
on eight advisory boards. He is head of the Firm’s Palo Alto office. Prior to joining VIA, he spent seven years co-heading the private equity program at The Investment Fund For Foundations (TIFF). In this role, he was responsible for over $1 billion in new capital commitments. Chris represented TIFF on over a dozen VC and LBO partnership advisory boards. Prior to joining TIFF, Chris worked on Princeton University's endowment team, where his duties included selection and evaluation of external managers, risk analysis, and asset allocation modeling. Previously, he was a strategy consultant at Monitor Company working with clients in the financial services, healthcare, and telecom sectors and as an analyst for Monitor’s principal investing activities. Chris authors a blog, www.SuperLP.com, which explores various investment topics, with a focus on private equity. He has been profiled in Venture Capital Journal and Private Equity Analyst and regularly speaks at industry conferences and business schools. Chris earned his B.A. with Distinction in history from Yale College in 1994 and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management in 2001. He was awarded the CFA Charter in 2004. He currently sits on the investment committees of the Castilleja School and Avenidas, a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to enriching the lives of older adults and their families.
