Title: Vice President of Capital Markets
Firm: Build America Mutual
Age: 38
Tangibility is what drew Christopher Flosi to municipal finance: he can directly see the projects being financed and how they progress.
"It was definitely an opportunity to get somewhere from the ground up and make an impact from day one," he said.
Chris joined BAM in its infancy stages, less than six months after its launch, and has grown his skills and broad knowledge of the municipal market in step with the company's growth, according to Mike Stanton, head of strategy and communications at BAM.
He also has played a key role in supporting BAM's growth in terms of the volume of new-issue transactions BAM bids on and insures, as well as in its successful secondary market insurance activity.
"Chris has a relatively rare skillset that includes both excellent credit analysis and deep capital markets activity," said Grant Dewey, head of Capital Markets at BAM and Chris' supervisor. "He's willing to take on any challenge and brings rigorous data analysis and professionalism to everything he does," he noted.
Chris, who played football in college, likens the municipal finance industry to that experience.
"Having the team infrastructure and everybody looking to be on the same page and work together, that's something that has been really fun," he said.
Prior to joining BAM, Chris analyzed short-term debt for Bank of America's money market funds in Boston.
He earned his undergrad degree from Iona University and his MBA from Suffolk University. He is married and has two children, a 5-year-old daughter and a soon-to-be 3-year-old son.
