Chris Jones – Former Managing Director, HSBC - backs Skin In The Game.
Skin In The Game adds experienced capital markets executive Chris Jones to the Investment Committee.
Jones - investment banker turned FinTech executive - has invested in Skin In The Game, joining the group’s investment committee alongside Chris Tuffey (Fmr Managing Director, Credit Suisse), Nathaniel Timbrell-Whittle (Fmr Managing Director, BNP Paribas) and Bill Northfield (Fmr Managing Director, Deutsche Bank).
Skin In The Game is a FCA-regulated investment group backed by sports industry heavyweights, including Joe Foster the Founder of Reebok, 2x Olympic Triathlon Champion Alistair Brownlee MBE and Roberto Croci from the Public Investment Fund. The group is a collaborative syndicate of entrepreneurs and investors, working together to identify and invest in early and growth-stage companies with the potential to transform how we live, train and play.
Jones was a Managing Director at HSBC for 15 years, having performed in several senior roles across Debt Capital Markets and Interest Rate Derivatives. His most recent role was Global Head of Local Currency Syndicate, working on a wide spectrum of historic and benchmark transactions in the international capital markets. Prior to HSBC, Chris worked in a similar role within DCM at Deutsche Bank.
During his last few years in banking and following a career transition in 2019 Chris worked a number of capital markets technology initiatives. Chris left banking and has since worked in the FinTech community, with senior roles at FinTech firms Nivaura and Covalent Capital – both technology platform specialising in primary capital market solutions.
In addition to his extensive capital markets experience, Chris is an active angel investor and sports enthusiast, with a keen interest in skiing, basketball and rugby. Chris is also into health and fitness himself, and is a regular at CrossFit and has recently participated in several Hyrox races.
“Chris understood our mission immediately.'' said Scott Newall, CEO of Skin In The Game. “He brings a wealth of capital markets experience and his background in structured products will reinforce our syndication process. We’re thrilled to have Chris onboard.”
