Chris Saitta - Managing Director

Chris is the Managing Director of Calterra Capital. He is a successful entrepreneur who combines vision and execution.  Throughout his career, he has identified opportunities and created scalable solutions to address them.  Chris currently participates at a chairman level in many companies and serves on the board of business and charitable organizations worldwide. Chris is also a Member of the Young President’s Organization (“YPO”), holding various Board level roles and currently resides as a Board Member of the Seattle WA Chapter.

In 1990 Chris was the Founder and President of DBI, a company that configured and networked computers to run custom database applications for corporate and government application.  In 1995, he founded and ran PDI which was the first distributor to sell computers and technology components on the internet.  In 2000, he worked with the California Institute of Technology applying advanced game theory to complex asset distribution scenarios.  During that time, he also worked with Idealab and eBay.  In 2003, he founded and became CEO of Equator which provided residential home loan default servicing technology to banks and government entities.  Under his guidance, Equator grew to be a benchmark of the mortgage industry that helped banks and the US economy recover from the mortgage crisis of 2008.  In 2015, Chris formed Calterra Capital as a Private Investment firm.