Kris Hopkins
Education
Cornell University
Bachelors of Science, Business Management & Marketing 1992-01-01 - 1997-01-01
Phillips Academy
, 1988-01-01 - 1992-01-01Work Experience
RAIsonance Group
Current
RAIsonance Group
CJK Technologies
Current
CJK Technologies
Surgent Networks
Current
Surgent Networks
Ramp
2022-03-01 - 2023-01-01
Ramp
Perfecta
2019-01-01 - 2022-02-01
Perfecta
JPMorganChase
2019-05-01 - 2019-09-01
JPMorganChase
Caw.me
2017-07-01 - 2018-11-01
Caw.me
CafeX Communications Inc.
2013-10-01 - 2017-07-01
CafeX Communications Inc.
Acme Packet
2011-01-01 - 2013-10-01
Acme Packet
Newfound Communications
2000-04-01 - 2011-03-01
Newfound Communications
Skills
Summary
A software entrepreneur, inventor, and product authority, Kris currently holds the position of Chief Product Officer at RAIsonance. There, Kris oversees the teams in charge of product management, engineering, MLOps, and DevOps, steering the company's medical and wellness AI software products. With a track record of leading strategy, product, and engineering divisions as both a CPO and CTO at various firms, Kris has directed these companies through numerous successful exits. This includes pioneering Strategic Product Management for emerging products at Oracle | Acme Packet and leading Newfound Communications as CEO. Kris successfully expanded Newfound, sold it to Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), and transformed its Software as a Service division into Surgent Networks. Kris delivers product management, leadership, and strategic consulting for companies expanding their product portfolios in agile and lean development pipelines. With a focus on the largest enterprise and government customers, his leadership builds robust cloud-based and premise-based software products, SDKs, and APIs for businesses to provide secure and efficient solutions. Kris is a graduate of Cornell University where he was the recipient of the Dorman Family Award for Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Excellence. Specialties: AI/ML, Conversational AI, Speech Recognition, WebRTC, VoIP/SIP, Video, Call recording, Telecommunications, Software Development (Javascript, Java, C++, Objective C, etc.), AWS/Azure, SDLC (Jira/Azure Devops, Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, Jenkins, CI/CD).
