Christopher Alex Marconi

Director of International Business Development

Christopher Marconi is Director of Business Development for International Programs at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education, where he leads UC Davis AgTech Academy partnerships across Saudi Arabia and the GCC for what is the top-ranked agriculture programme in the United States according to the QS 2026 rankings. He is also founder and CEO of Grintas. Across 25 years he has originated B2B, B2G and B2U international partnerships in workforce development and led over one billion dollars in higher-education acquisitions, as a senior executive at Full Sail University and earlier in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. He trained at the Wharton School’s Investment Banking Institute and holds an MBA from Rollins College and a BS from Marquette University.