Chris Ito, CFA Chief Executive Officer
Chris Ito is Chief Executive Officer of FFI Solutions. Chris has over 30 years of leadership roles in the consulting and investment management industries.
Prior to joining FFI in 2015, Chris served as a Senior Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management at UBP Asset Management, a $16bn fund of hedge funds. Chris also served as the lead portfolio manager on the UBP’s Multi-Strategy product and was a member of both the Fund Board of Directors and the firm’s Investment Committee.
Prior to UBP, Chris was a principal at Deloitte Consulting where he spent 15 years was the founder and national leader of the firm’s Institutional Investment Advisory Practice delivering advice on liability driven investing and manager selection to institutional investors.
Chris has a BS in accounting from The Ohio State University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Chris is the former chair of the Board of Directors of The Ohio State University Alumni Association and currently co-chairs the Advisory Board for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at OSU.
