Christopher P Bogart

Christopher Bogart co-founded Burford and serves as chief executive officer. Previously, Mr Bogart held numerous senior executive positions with Time Warner. As executive vice president and general counsel of Time Warner Inc, he managed one of the largest legal functions in the world, with more than 350 lawyers. He also served as chief executive officer of Time Warner Cable Ventures and one of four senior executives operating Time Warner Cable, and as chief executive officer of Time Warner Entertainment Ventures. Mr Bogart came to Time Warner from Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he was a litigator representing companies such as IBM, GE and Time Warner. He also served as chief executive officer of Glenavy Capital LLC, an international investment firm whose projects included Churchill Ventures Limited, a publicly traded media and technology investment vehicle of which he also served as chief executive officer, as well as the Glenavy Arbitration Investment Fund, a pioneering litigation finance vehicle. Mr Bogart is a member of the Board of Overseers of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, a member of the Board of Trustees of Hackley School, Chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals of Briarcliff Manor, New York, and a member of the Board of Advisors of New York City’s Legal Aid Society. Mr Bogart was the gold medallist and graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Ontario.