Check out the executive profile of Christine Cooper in the current (Jan 2, 2009) edition of the Tampa Bay Business Journal. If you are a subscriber, you can read it online at Christine Cooper . If you are not a subscriber, stop by our office to read it!
Christine B. Cooper, MS, CLTC
Chris Cooper, President and owner of Cooper Financial Services, has over 30 years of experience as a speaker and adult educator, conducting classes and workshops for 5-500+ attendees.Her specialties are helping Baby Boomers accumulate funds for their retirement, and retirement income planning for seniors, to ensure they don’t outlive their assets. Chris holds a Bachelors Degree and a Master’s of Science in Personal Finance & Management from the Univ. of Rhode Island and Penn State Univ., respectively. Her PhD credits were taken at the University of Maryland in Consumer Economics and Adult Education, were she also co-authored a book on customer service.Before moving to FL, Chris worked in government, industry and management consulting positions in the Washington, D.C. area, and owned a yacht sales and charter business in Annapolis, MD. Since establishing her financial services practice in Tampa Bay in 1994, she has received numerous local and national recognition awards in her industry. Most recently she was named Tampa Bay Woman of the Year in Financial Services and Cooper Financial was named as Pasco County Service Business of the Year, category 1; she was commended by resolution 09-372 of the Pasco County Board of Commissioners for these achievements.She has also received Million Dollar Round Table and National Quality Service awards, and “Member of the Year” and “Ambassador of the Year” awards from the Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce. She was first president of the Tampa Bay Sales Professionals and 1st President of Women N Charge, Inc, a nonprofit association of women business owners.She has reigned as the Tampa Bay Sushi Society SUSHI QUEEN since its inception in 1996. Chris currently has over 250 clients and over $50 million under management. She is a Registered Representative of The Leaders Group, a FINRA member firm, and a certified member of the National Ethics Bureau.Chris lives with her husband of 30 years, George Cooper, in Land O’Lakes, where in their spare time they enjoy playing golf, raising orchids and their Florida wine “cellar”.
