Bo Hopkins

Mr. Hopkins has over 25 years of private industry investment, management, and consulting experience. As a Managing Partner with CM Equity Partners he has led and participated in direct equity investments for the past 12 years. During this period he has served on the boards of portfolio companies across industries in government services, manufacturing and consumer products. In addition to board responsibilities, Mr. Hopkins was Chief Executive Officer of Evans Consoles, a manufacturing and technology company based in Alberta, Canada. Prior to joining CMEP, he was a partner at Connor & Company, a management consulting firm specializing in strategic alliances and operations management. From 1986 to 1991, Mr. Hopkins was an investment banker culminating that part of his career at Kidder Peabody, Inc., where he was Director of the Private Business Group focused on raising capital and advising privately held companies with strategic alternatives including mergers, acquisitions and partnering relationships to improve value. Outside of industry, Mr. Hopkins is on the teaching staff of the Jackson Institute at Yale University and has also been instrumental in developing the curriculum for the Program on Social Enterprise at the Yale School of Management. His coursework at Yale has been designed to introduce graduate and undergraduate students to practical issues faced by mission-driven social entrepreneurs based in India and other developing nations. Students are assigned to work with carefully selected social entrepreneurs to address a particularly complex issue impeding the success or impact of each organization. Mr. Hopkins is a member of ANDE, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and a Trustee of the Gow School in Buffalo, NY. He received his MBA from the Yale School of Management in 1986 and is a Management Fellow at the school.