About Chris Leong
Chris Leong leads Argentum’s business development effort, which is focused on sourcing new investments for Argentum’s funds and providing corporate / business development support to Argentum’s portfolio companies. With over 25 years of growth equity and operational experience, Chris first joined Argentum’s investment team in 1999. After spending over 5 years as an executive of a growth stage company in the IoT space, he returned to Argentum in 2008. Chris directly originated and helped execute several Argentum investments, including Fleetworthy, LAUNCH, Flightdocs, empowerMX, L2 Aviation, UFA, Alarm Masters, and BuyerQuest. He’s also served as a Board Director or Observer, and sourced numerous acquisitions, customers, and strategic partnerships, for many of Argentum’s portfolio companies.
During his hiatus from Argentum, Chris served as a VP & member of the executive team for a Texas Instruments spinoff & leading developer of IoT technology, where he led business development and corporate strategy, and originated several significant customers and strategic partners including NXP, Microsoft, & Intel.
Chris began his career with Lehman Brothers’ private equity fund and is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Chris cherishes his role as a dad to his wonderful kids and husband to his amazing wife. He’s also a fervent, eternally hopeful, but perpetually tormented New York Mets fan, and a native New Yorker who has lived in four out of the five NYC boroughs.