Chris Myers

M&A Partner, Strategy and Transactions, EY-Parthenon

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Chris Myers is a partner in EY-Parthenon's strategy consulting practice where he specializes in complex, international M&A transactions. He also serves as an intelligence officer in the US Navy Reserve, currently deployed to Germany on active-duty orders for Operation Atlantic Resolve, where he is on the front line supporting intelligence collection and sharing with Ukraine.

Outside his day job and military responsibilities, Myers also serves as an adjunct professor of management and finance at DePaul University. Civically, he serves on the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago guild board, on the membership committee of the Economic Club of Chicago, and as board president of his 207-unit condo board. He is also a NextGen Fellow with Business Executives for National Security. In 2025, Myers supported the writing of a report published by the Stimson Center titled “Rethinking the Threat: Why China is Unlikely to Invade Taiwan”.

Myers has been an Emerging Leader at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2021), and a fellow at Leadership Greater Chicago (2019) and World Business Chicago (2017). He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MA in international relations with a focus on US foreign policy and national security from American University, a certificate in national security studies from the US Naval War College, and a BS in computer engineering from Penn State University. He has been learning Polish since 2017. Myers, his wife Annette, daughter Alana, and son Lemson, live in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.