Chris Mount-Benites

Chris Mount-Benites serves as SFUSD's Chief Business Official and Deputy Superintendent of Business and Operations.  Hailing from New York State, Chris has made California home for the past 28 years and has worked in public education throughout the state but has largely centered his life in San Francisco and the Bay Area.  Over the past 15 years, Chris served as CFO, CPO, and COO of Los Angeles Unified, the second largest district in the United States, Superintendent and CBO of Burlingame School District, Deputy Superintendent of Business and Finance in Washington Unified School District, Deputy Superintendent of West Contra Costa Unified School District, and CFO & COO of UC Berkeley's Division of Equity and Inclusion.  In all of his positions, Chris has been brought in at times of fiscal and operational upheaval to create fiscal stability and create or improve systems.  Chris also brings an educational lens to his work; he taught high school English and Social Studies, served as both an Elementary and High School Principal and lead Curriculum and Instruction as well as being tapped as a public education policy expert for his first fifteen years in education in both CA and NY.  He brings a deep commitment to strengthening public schools which he believes are a cornerstone of modern democracy.