Chris Welch chris.welch@freshiflix.com
Managing Director

Chris has over 14 years of experience as an entrepreneur having developed and operated two groups of retail food concepts. He also acquired a group of Jiffy Lube franchises in Texas, in which he is still an investor.

Chris’ background includes eight years working in corporate finance and business development for Raleigh Enterprises, a company with holdings in real estate, hotels, an independent film studio in Los Angeles and other businesses. He also worked for 4 years as CFO to Baruk Petroleum, a company which has owned dozens of automotive-service franchises across the country (Jiffy Lube, Midas Muffler and Q-Lube).

Chris has also served as a consultant and business advisor to Hollywood Rentals, a large film and TV equipment rental company, with operations in Los Angeles, Orlando, New York, and North Carolina.

He has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations which have built affordable housing in Los Angeles and an AIDS memorial in Lincoln Park.

Chris has a BA in architecture from the University of California – Berkeley and an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California, Los Angeles.