Chris Satti


President
Chris Satti is President of Salem Capital Management and leads the firm’s day-to-day operations and investment activities. Prior to SCM, Chris spent 10 years at Audax Private Equity in Boston and San Francisco. Audax is one of the most active middle market private equity firms globally. He was a senior leader of the firm’s San Francisco office, which he helped launch in 2014. Prior to Audax, Chris was a strategy consultant at Monitor Group, where he advised clients in the technology, consumer, and healthcare industries. He also worked as an Advisor to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino through the Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows Program.

Chris received an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a B.S. from Georgetown University, where he was Valedictorian of the McDonough School of Business.

Chris is a Rhode Island native. He serves on the Board of the Providence Performing Arts Center and Excel Academy Charter Schools. He and his wife Corey are active in multiple other non-profit and faith-based organizations.