Chris DiPentima

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Chris DiPentima is the president and CEO of CBIA, Connecticut’s leading business organization, with thousands of member companies, small and large, representing a diverse range of industries from every part of the state.

The organization includes the CBIA Foundation for Economic Growth & Opportunity, CBIA’s Workers’ Compensation mutual company, CBIA’s products and services company and its captive insurance LLC, and two affiliates—the business consulting firm CONNSTEP and the nonprofit education and workforce organization ReadyCT.

DiPentima previously was division president of Leggett & Platt Aerospace, a S&P 500 company, leading manufacturing operations at the company’s Middletown-based Pegasus Manufacturing facility and locations in Washington, California, and France.

He joined Pegasus, then family-owned, in 2002 and was named president in 2006, implementing a series of strategic initiatives that doubled employment and revenue before selling to L&P in 2016. 

Prior to joining Pegasus, DiPentima spent eight years as an attorney representing corporations and individuals.

A former chair of CBIA’s board of directors, he serves on the boards of several nonprofits, for-profits, and state committees, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Committee of 100, the Governor’s Prevention Partnership, the Manufacturing Innovation Fund, and the Connecticut Blue-Ribbon Panel on Childcare.

He is a past president of the Aerospace Components Manufacturers and served on the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission, the National Governor’s Policy Academy for Best Practices in Manufacturing, and the board of the Connecticut Technical High School System.

DiPentima has a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and received his juris doctorate from Quinnipiac Law School.

He lives in Durham with his wife and three daughters.