Chris Bodnar

Chris has been an active member of the investment team at Eastward since 2010.

Chris’s experience as an industry analyst and an investment partner of a private equity firm provides Eastward with important skills into the evaluation of potential investment deals as well originating his own opportunities.

Chris was a senior equity analyst at Bear Stearns covering the commodity, specialty and diversified chemical, water and ag-bio tech industries on a global basis. Chris later joined private equity firm Great Hill Partners and the investment bank Ladenburg Thalmann before serving as an advisor reporting to the senior management team and the Board of Directors of Metabolix.

Chris is involved in several charities and is a Trustee of the South Shore YMCA.

Chris is a graduate of Boston University and the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University