Chris Blees

Chris is a CPA and Middle-Market Investment Banker specializing in the sale of closely held companies to institutional buyers. Chris began his career with a 30-person CPA firm, BiggsKofford, located in Colorado Springs. In 2004, Chris launched the firm’s M&A practice, known as BiggsKofford Capital. In 2007 he was also appointed as the CPA firm’s Managing Partner. Chris has become a leader in the M&A sector, through his involvement in over 300 merger, acquisition, and sale transactions. Chris is active nationally in the M&A profession and was instrumental in developing M&A certification curriculum taught in Executive MBA programs at Pepperdine, Loyola, DePaul, and Wake Forest Universities. He is a member of the “Founders Circle” and currently sits on the Board for the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors, headquartered in Chicago. Chris serves as the lead instructor for the Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA) designation, having personally instructed over 1,000 Certified M&A professionals throughout the world. Wiley Finance Publishing engaged Chris as co-author of “Middle Market M&A”, which was published in 2012 and is now used in continuing education courses and by investment bankers and M&A advisors around the world. Chris is a CPA, ABV, CM&AA, and he holds Series 7 and 79 Investment Banking licenses through Aaron Capital.