Chris Condelles serves as Chief Operating Officer at FS Investments. In his role, Mr. Condelles works across the Executive Committee on strategic initiatives, including driving growth initiatives and creating operating leverage across the firm. He is directly responsible for overseeing several groups, including Capital Markets which executes and manages more than $25 billion in financings, Co-leading FS’ Bridge Street CLO platform, and serving as the Chief Financial Officer of FSCREIT.
Prior to joining FS Investments, Mr. Condelles spent over 12 years at Credit Suisse, most recently as Head of U.S. Credit and Financing Solutions, where he managed an +$8 billion investment portfolio which included the firm’s Structured Credit Investing, Credit Repo, and Credit Asset Financing businesses within the Americas. He was also an Executive Committee member and Global Treasurer of Credit Suisse’s top ranked Global Credit Products division. Prior to these roles, Chris was a senior trader across several of Credit Suisse’s esoteric credit and financing businesses and started his career building technology and operations platforms to support these businesses.
Mr. Condelles received a BS in Financial Economics from Binghamton University, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a dual degree in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management and is a CFA charterholder.
He is a board member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in NYC, where he chairs the Finance Committee and is the Treasurer.