Chris Jenks is Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Amplify Capital Group. With more than 18 years of experience in quantitative investing, he served as director of quantitative equities at BMO Global Asset Management where he was part of an investment team responsible for more than $16 billion in assets under management. Prior to BMO Global, Chris served as director of research at Embree Financial Group and as vice president and senior investment strategist at Northern Trust Global Investments. An entrepreneur, Chris is also the owner of Driven Car Wash, a growing express car wash chain in the Chicagoland area.  Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in finance and marketing from DePaul University and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Chicago.

Jeff Pavone is a leading M&A advisor to small and mid-market enterprises, with more than $5 billion in completed transactions across multiple industries. A lifelong entrepreneur, he is the founding partner of Amplify Capital Group and Commercial Plus, LLC. Under his leadership Commercial Plus became a market leader in real estate, business brokerage and financing for the broader automotive industry, completing complex deals for some of the nation’s most respected car wash and c-store chains. Leveraging longstanding relationships with owners and operators, Jeff launched Amplify Capital Group, an independent boutique M&A and capital advisory platform built to serve the evolving needs of founder-led enterprises. He is also a seasoned real estate investor, venture capitalist, and active philanthropist. Before commercial real estate Jeff co-founded Law.com, helped sell it to American Lawyer Media, and also founded lawstuff.com, medical.com, and led National Law Resource, Inc.