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Previously, Chris served as Financial Services Industry Tax Managing Partner, overseeing tax strategy, senior client leadership and market expansion across Investment Management, Real Estate, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. He has also led Deloitte’s National Insurance and Global Insurance tax practices, and served on a rotational Deloitte Executive Leadership Team, leading a sprint to shape the firm’s cross-functional geographic strategy across the United States.

Over his career he has advised many of the country’s leading financial institutions, including AIG, American Express, MetLife, New York Life, Prudential, TIAA and USAA. He served on the Board of Directors of the Insurance Tax Conference and on the Accounting Department Advisory Board at the University of New Haven.

Chris earned his MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he later taught as an adjunct professor, and his Bachelor of Science in Accounting, magna cum laude, from the University of Connecticut. He is a CPA in New York and Connecticut and a member of the Columbus Citizens Foundation. In Westport, Connecticut, he coaches youth soccer, baseball and basketball.

Olga directs the group’s international operations, with 22 branches across Europe and a growing presence in Asia and the Middle East, including Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Dubai. Urbani companies manage more than 1,500 hectares of agricultural land, including organic cultivation and truffle plantations. In Manhattan she created the Urbani Truffle Lab, an international meeting place for chefs, food critics and gastronomy professionals.

Committed to preserving the culture of her territory, she founded the Truffle Academy and the International Truffle School in Umbria’s Valnerina park, and established the Museo del Tartufo Urbani in memory of her father. Through the Paolo & Bruno Urbani Foundation, she supports young culinary talent with scholarships, training and an annual award.

Her honors include the Premio Bellisario “La Mela d’Oro,” the “Femme de Goût” Award in Geneva and Entrepreneur of the Year from Borsa Italiana. She has served as President of Confindustria Spoleto-Valnerina, represented Italy at the G8 Deauville Partnership, and supports healthcare and humanitarian causes in Italy and abroad, including an orphanage she founded in Siem Reap, Cambodia. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University.