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Chris Corpuz is responsible for identifying, developing and launching new investment initiatives for MacFarlane Partners, including the sourcing and structuring of private-equity investments in existing real estate companies and the development of real estate hedge funds.Chris has 20 years of real estate and private equity investment experience, including a previous tenure with MacFarlane Partners as the firm’s chief financial officer. Most recently, he was a partner with and the chief financial officer for Olympius Capital, a private-equity firm offering fund-of-funds investment vehicles to institutions and individuals. While there, he helped raise capital and manage a $140 million fund of hedge funds.During his real estate career, Chris has worked as a consultant in addition to holding investment management and operating roles. He helped co-found the real estate consulting practices of CB Richard Ellis, Arthur Andersen and Deloitte Haskins + Sells. While with CB Richard Ellis, he directed the strategic planning and integration of the firm’s real estate investment management unit with a similar division of the Trust Company of the West to create what is now CB Richard Ellis Investors. As a consultant with Arthur Andersen, he helped manage the $1.6 billion real estate portfolio of Ameritech’s pension plan.Chris also has been a high-tech entrepreneur. Having begun his business career as a software engineer before turning to real estate, he co-founded InterNex.net, one of the first Bay Area companies to commercially deploy ISDN technology, in 1993 and later served as a senior executive or board member for several other technology and Internet start-up firms.Chris currently serves on the board of Sansum-Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic and on the investment committee of the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation. He is a former member of the California Advisory Board of the Trust for Public Land and a former board member of Rhapsody Fund, L.P., a fund of hedge funds. Chris holds a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University and a master’s degree in management, with a specialization in finance, from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. | 