Chris Taylor joined Third Point in 2023. After starting his career at Deloitte, Mr. Taylor joined New York Life Investment (NYLIM) in 2005 as a credit analyst and rose to CEO of Madison Capital Funding LLC, its private lending boutique, where he helped build the platform to over $15.0 billion in assets and oversaw a team of over 100 employees. Mr. Taylor was also the founding CEO of Apogem Capital, which merged Madison Capital and two other investment boutiques owned by NYLIM to create a single, fully integrated, alternative investment boutique focused on middle market private capital solutions, with ~$40.0B of AUM and over 200 employees. Mr. Taylor earned a Master of Science in Taxation and B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.