Christian Lawless

Bio

Christian founded Conversion Capital in 2012 to invest in entrepreneurs leveraging emerging technology to tackle the toughest problems in financial services, and government. He focuses on early stage investments across software, data, cloud, and security, and specializes in growth and scaling. Christian is currently a Director at Booster Fuels, and lead the firms investments in Improbable, Blend, Qualia, Dataminr, Figure, Provenance, Wisetack, Ramp, LearnVest (acq.), RedOwl Analytics (acq.), and Paribus (acq.). Prior to Conversion, Christian spent over twelve years in capital markets where he held senior trading and sales positions including head of securitized products and head of cross asset macro at Lehman Brothers, Nomura, and Barclays. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and is an active mentor, advisor, and lecturer on the future of financial technology.