Chris Nee
Associate
Chris joined Raine in 2025 and has been primarily focused on principal and advisory assignments in technology. Prior to Raine, Chris spent 4 years at Qatalyst Partners focused on strategic and financial advisory for technology clients. Chris began his career at PwC as a management consultant in the M&A Advisory group working with Microsoft, HP, Pfizer and other Fortune 500 companies on post-merger integration and separation planning.
At Qatalyst, Chris’ strategic and financial advisory experience included Smartsheet’s $8.4Bn sale to Blackstone and Vista, HashiCorp’s $7.7Bn sale to IBM, Splunk’s $29.6Bn sale to Cisco, Alteryx’s $4.4Bn sale to Clearlake and Insight Partners, Datto’s $6.2Bn sale to Kaseya & Insight Partners, Salesloft’s majority $2.3Bn strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners, and Drift’s majority sale to Vista Equity Partners.
Chris grew up in the Seattle area and received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Washington and M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.