Jim Christian

Senior Advisor

Mr. Christian has wide-ranging experience, including international, as a financier, investor, executive and Board Member. For 18 years, he was in corporate and investment banking with international firms Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank); Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. (now UBS); and Paribas (now BNP Paribas). 

In 2000, Mr. Christian joined Anschutz Investment Company as Managing Director and ultimately managed approximately $1 billion in private equity investments in motion picture productions, radio and newspaper media. From 2010-2014, he chaired the Finance Committee and led the management committee at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, a for-profit, regionally-accredited educational institution. 

Returning to his hometown of New Orleans in 2017, Mr. Christian helped design and launch the executive-in-residence program at the Lepage Center at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business and volunteers in the program. 

Mr. Christian received a BA from Williams College.