Chris Twiss
Investment Director @ New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
Chris Twiss is a startup investor at New Zealand Venture Investment Fund in Auckland. Chris is an Investment Director for NZVIF's Seed Co-investment Fund. Over the last 20 years he has gained extensive venture capital, private equity, angel investment, merchant banking, legal and entrepreneurial experience in London, Europe and New Zealand.Following an early career with listed agribusiness company Wrightsons in the SouthIsland, Chris gained marketing and law degrees at Otago University before qualifying as a solicitor with Bell Gully in Wellington in 1993. From 1996, he spent seven years based in London working firstly as a commercial lawyer for Linklaters & Alliance and then as a corporate financier and venture capitalist with UK merchant bank Close Brothers PLC.
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About New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments.
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund Contacts
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Chris Twiss
Investment Director
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Stu Christie
Investment Manager
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Richard Dellabarca
Founder & CEO
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