Chris M. Kanoff (Business '79) is the Chairman of Global Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Jefferies. With more than 40 years of investment banking expertise, he began his career in 1984 in the Corporate Finance Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert. He has worked at Jefferies since 1991, where he has served in various capacities, including Global Head of Investment Banking. He currently serves on Jefferies Executive Committee, Jefferies Family Office Board and is Chairman of Jefferies Family Scholarship Fund.
Mr. Kanoff received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. At the Anderson School, he currently serves on the Board of Advisors to the Fink Center for Finance. He and his wife, Mary Ellen, were married in 1988 and have four children.