Christopher Fugaro

Mr. Fugaro leads Guardian’s business development team.
Christopher is responsible for developing and managing Guardian’s origination initiatives for new and existing portfolio companies.
Christopher joined Guardian in 2010 and manages a broad network of strategic relationships with corporations, investment bankers and other intermediaries.
Additionally, Christopher has extensive deal execution experience in all phases of the investment process and is on the board of Western Shelter Systems and has portfolio company oversight responsibilities for Tactical Medical Solutions, Inc. Prior to Guardian, Christopher had a professional career in financial advisory and strategy consulting.
He was an investment banker within Griffin Financial Group LLC where he provided merger and acquisition and capital raising services.
Early in his career, Christopher was a management consultant with Greenwich Associates, where during his tenure he ran the domestic commercial banking research team advising executives at bulge bracket financial institutions.
Christopher earned his MBA from Wake Forest University with a concentration in finance as a recipient of the Charles H.
Babcock Scholarship and his BA in business management from Gettysburg College.