Christine D. Gagnon

Christine serves as Chief Financial Officer of Roha Group Inc, a New York-based private equity firm, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CDG Holdings Group. She also serves as Non-Executive Director of Raxio Group B.V., Africa’s leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre operator, providing best-in-class colocation, cross connect, fibre, and IT infrastructure services. Prior to this, she most recently held the positions of IT Finance Transformation Leader and Head of Finance, GenAI at Honeywell International Inc., based in its global headquarters. Prior to joining Honeywell, Christine held the positions of Chief Financial Officer, African Asset Finance Company, contemporaneously serving on the Audit Committee of Raxio Group, portfolio companies of Roha Group Inc, and on the board of several portfolio company subsidiaries. She is a Certified Public Accountant with in-depth experience across financial services, private equity, and technology sectors operating across functions including accounting, finance, treasury, credit, legal, risk, and operations. In 2021, she was named in Monitor's Top 50 Women in Equipment Finance. Christine was also named in Acquisition International’s (AI’s) Global CFO Excellence Awards as Most Innovative Venture Capital & Investment CFO (2024) and Private Equity CFO of the Year (2025) as well as AI’s Influential Businesswoman Awards as African-Focused Investment CFO of the Year (2026) and Most Influential Emerging Market Asset Finance Company CFO (2023). Christine is also Practitioner in Residence, at the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University (UNC system), serving as in-house expert in the field of accounting, and serves as Adjunct Faculty at Lenoir-Rhyne University, where she teaches business law, economics, and the Corporate Strategy & Policy Capstone, the final course required for all graduating business majors, focused on integrating competitive analysis, leadership, and strategic decision-making. With deep ties to academia, she previously served in faculty roles at the University of California, Irvine (in its undergraduate and Executive MBA programs), and at California State University, Fullerton. She is currently Faculty Advisor for Beta Alpha Psi (Epsilon Kappa Chapter) and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, two prominent and prestigious honor societies. Christine is also a Doctoral Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; her research focuses on assessing ROI on investments in artificial intelligence. Over her 25-year international career, having resided in Europe and Africa in addition to her home country, Christine has served in both public and private sectors holding positions as EMEIA Chief Operating Officer, EMEIA Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Go-to-Market, Financial Crime and Chief Operating Officer, Financial Services Africa at Ernst & Young LLP; First Vice President, Offices of the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman at OneWest Bank; and Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. She is a strategic advisor to the Meltzer Center at the NYU School of Law; she is a member of MIT’s Work of the Future Working Group (Generative AI) as well as Women Defining AI (WDAI), Senior Women in Private Equity (SWIPE) Network, and Worldwide Women’s Association (WWA). She is active in the veteran community volunteering for Hire Heroes USA and serves on the Board of Humans for Healthcare. Christine is also an active member of the TED community, serving as speaker coach for TEDx Columbia Business School (TEDxColumbiaUniversity) and Licensee/Organizer of TEDxCatawba, where she has brought to the stage prominent visionaries including Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas and New York University’s Kenji Yoshino. She previously served as the speaker coach for TEDxLondonBusinessSchool. Christine graduated magna cum laude with distinction from the University of Connecticut, earning a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, a Master of Science in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration. She also attended Harvard Business School as well as Stanford University, focusing on corporate strategy and innovation and most recently completed a Master of Legal Studies at the Washington University School of Law. Her interests include Pilates; she is instructor-trained in the Stott method. She also enjoys travel, especially spending summers in the UK; sailing; nonfiction particularly related to human behavior, economics and health sciences; the arts; and time with friends and family as well as gastronomy, mixology and wine. With a particular passion for champagne and sparkling wines, Christine serves as an ambassador for WTSO, an e-commerce wine distributor, a strong partnership that has spanned nearly two decades.