Chris Shelton
Managing Partner
Chris Shelton
Venture Capital
Growth Equity
Buyouts
Chris brings a career of investing experience across venture, growth equity, and buyouts. Before Orchard, Chris was an investor at Tower Arch Capital and Sorenson Capital where he led investments across several industries including technology, consumer products, telecommunications, manufacturing, and infrastructure services, among others. He also spent time as an early employee at Homie, a technology company disrupting the real estate market. Chris started his career in Citigroup's global Technology investment banking group in Palo Alto, CA. He has a B.S. in Finance from BYU and earned an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
Chris is an avid skier, HIIT fitness enthusiast, and enjoys mountain biking and spending time with his wife and seven kids.