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CaptainHoop

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Last Activity: 03-12-2021 08:50

About Me

About CaptainHoop

Location

Atlanta, GA

Occupation

Board Member

Interests

Cooking, Wines, Golf, Woodworking

Biography

Chris:
Having been a sailor for over 40 years, Chris is an avid blue water sailor and ASA-certified bare boat skipper for large (blue water) monohulls and catamarans. He is an active member of Les Marmitons, an international men’s gourmet cooking club, and has achieved the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines and Spirits. Chris is also a lifelong wood worker and wood turner.
His Linked-In profile can be found at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishooperatlanta. His Facebook page is https://facebook.com/cchooper.

Recently cofounded and served as CEO of Emergence, the Georgia Medical Accelerator. Chris Hooper is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Wholeberg Ventures, an early-stage medtech, HIT, and biomed investment and business development firm (www.wholeberg.com), and Virtual Bio design (www.virtualbiodesign.com), an HIT and medical device product development and commercialization firm.

Chris has served numerous companies in fractional and full-time C-level roles over the last twelve years, including St. Joseph’s Translational Research Institute (Now T3 Labs), TitleMax, Emergence, CompWorx, and others. He has more than 30 years of experience in product and concept development and commercialization, and is a patented inventor and published author.

Chris is an accomplished leader in strategy development and deployment, business development, mergers and acquisitions, operations, finance, product life-cycle management, and information systems, and has successfully led/managed numerous programs and projects, ranging from focused, small-team, quick-turn business improvements to multi-year, multi-national IT-enabled, large-team enterprise transformation programs. He pursues fractional C-Level roles through the firm, Praemon Partners LLC (www.praemon.com).

Chris' experience includes 16 years of leading the creation and transformation of businesses and business capabilities as a Partner, leader of the Strategy, Operations, and Systems consulting practice, and hands-on practitioner at Deloitte Consulting. He is the original functional architect of SAP’s industry solution for footwear and apparel (FAS, which morphed into SAP’s Retail Industry Solution), which is in use in all major softgoods companies in the world (i.e., Levi’s, adidas, Nike, Wrangler, etc.). He has also envisioned, designed, and developed internet-based HIT applications and IOS apps (which have been available through the iTunes Store).

Chris has started, worked in, led, advised, and helped attained funding for numerous early-stage ventures (medtech, MDDS, HIT, manufacturing, consumer, internet commerce, mobility), and has been an active Angel Investor since 1996. He led his first successful venture funding effort in 1987.

He holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering Concentration) from Georgia Tech, and an MBA in Operations Management from Georgia State University.

Chris has served on numerous boards of directors.