Chris Bittman is a Partner at Agility and also serves as CEO and CIO.
Prior to joining Agility, Chris was the Chief Investment Officer of the University of Colorado Foundation. Under his leadership the Foundation was named Large Foundation of the Year in 2007 by Institutional Investor’s Foundation & Endowment Money Management magazine, based on “superior investment performance, innovation and notable asset allocation moves.” Before being named the first CIO of the Foundation in 2004, he was the President and CEO of Jurika & Voyles, a California-based investment firm, where he was responsible for the management of over $5 billion for a broad variety of Fortune 500 corporations, public funds, foundations, endowments and families. He began his career on Wall Street as the Western Regional Manager for Merrill Lynch’s Business Financial Services Group and was the youngest Regional Manager in the group’s history.
Chris graduated from the University of Colorado in 1985 and served the institution as a volunteer for nearly 20 years in various capacities – as President of its Alumni Association, as Trustee and Director of its Foundation, and as Chair of the Foundation’s Investment Committee. He is a guest lecturer on investment management at the University’s Leeds School of Business and a former member of the University’s Intercollegiate Athletics Task Force. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for Colorado Public Television; Investment Committee member of the Colorado Health Foundation; board member of the University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office; and Trustee of Colorado Academy, a private, coeducational college preparatory school in Denver. Under Chris’s management, Agility has received a number of awards including OCIO of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2021.