Mark Hopkins

Mark Hopkins is an author, entrepreneur, and founder of Crescendo Capital Partners. His book, Shortcut to Prosperity www.shortcuttoprosperity.com was published in January of 2013. Mr. Hopkins holds a BSME Cornell University and an MSMSE from Stanford University. He served in increasingly responsible engineering and business leadership positions at Hewlett Packard and Emerson Electric before founding PEAK Industries, a medical device contract manufacturing company, in 1996. Over the course of 9 years, PEAK grew to over 300 employees and $75MM in sales. After the sale of PEAK to Delphi Medical in 2005, Mr. Hopkins co-founded Crescendo Capital Partners, a private equity firm making investments in businesses whose growth is accelerated by access to capital and our firms’ wealth of operating expertise.