Chris Younger, Managing Director, CapitalValue M&A

Chris Younger, a Managing Director of CapitalValue M&A, is a graduate of Harvard Law School with more than a decade of experience in executive management, marketing, sales, mergers/acquisitions, and law. Chris is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Silvercloud Companies, and is the Chairman of the Board for its operating businesses: The Outdoor Living Company , a leading outdoor hardscape fabricator in Denver, Underground Innovations, a provider of directional boring services in Colorado, and Future Proof Communications, a provider of leading edge communications solutions to businesses across the United States. Before joining CapitalValue, Chris helped found and was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Expanets, a $700 million company and the nation’s largest and leading provider of converged communications solutions. During his tenure with Expanets, Chris also managed the acquisition of 27 different businesses, ranging in size from $2 million to over $1 billion in annual revenues (in total over $400 million in transaction value), and was instrumental in helping Expanets complete a significant turnaround during a turbulent time in the communications industry, leading to its acquisition by Avaya for $152 million in late 2003. 

As part of his involvement in the communications industry, Chris is also the Founding Chairman and a Board Member for the Enterprise Communications Association , a prior board member and advisor to ChanneLynx, a Seattle-based developer of message brokering software for networked devices, and an advisory board member for Popular Telephony, a French developer of a groundbreaking peer-to-peer, serverless voice over IP technology. Chris has also been a featured speaker at TMC's Internet-Telephony Conference, Cisco's Small and Medium-Sized Business Education Seminar, and the Callahan Annual Master's Executive Conference, among others.  Chris is currently a member of the Castle Pines Village Design Review Committee and a Board Member for the Dove Valley Metropolitan District.

Prior to his work with Expanets and its parent company, Northwestern Growth Corporation, Chris worked as a corporate and securities attorney with Wilson, Sosini, Goodrich & Rosati, a pioneering law firm in Silicon Valley, representing several private and public technology companies. He started his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse E. Eschbach, Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, where he authored several published opinions.

Chris is a summa cum laude graduate of Miami University in Ohio, and was named one of Denver’s “Top 40 Under 40” business leaders by The Denver Business Journal. During his tenure at Harvard, Chris was the Managing Editor for the Harvard Law Review.

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