Chris Locke

Chris Locke, a Chicago native and University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana alumni, is the Chief Financial Officer for SingleHop LLC. He has a diverse background, having worked in public accounting, strategic consulting, and for both privately-owned and publicly-traded businesses in the CFO role. Before joining SingleHop, Chris was CFO for Rewards Network, Inc., a publicly traded firm focused on loyalty marketing for the restaurant industry. At SingleHop, Chris is responsible for all accounting, finance and administrative functions of the company, and is focused on building the internal infrastructure needed to support SingleHop's continued growth. When he isn't working, you can find him exploring Chicago's restaurants, working on his home-brew computer entertainment center, or working out to P90X2 or Insanity in his man-cave.

Latest from Chris Locke

How Your CFO Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud

If the campaign for cloud infrastructure keeps failing, it’s time to try a new strategy. Too many IT heroes fall because they don’t know how to talk to a CFO. IT and finance employ languages as different as C++ and Ruby. Virtualization and cloud IaaS may be exactly what your organization needs, but you must ...