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Deborah C. Hopkins is CEO of Double Chase Advisors and is an independent corporate board member. She was Citigroup's Chief Innovation Officer, a position she held beginning in 2008, [1] and CEO of Citi Ventures beginning in 2010. [2] She retired from Citigroup, effective December 31, 2016. [3]
Deborah Chase Hitch was born on November 12, 1954, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Edward Franklin "Frank" Hitch and Gretchen Luise Cloos, the third of four children. She graduated from Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan, and attended Michigan State University for two years before returning home to help with the family business [4] and receiving a BA in Accounting from Walsh College in 1977. [5]
Hopkins started her career at National Bank of Detroit, [4] then worked for five years at Ford as a financial analyst evaluating costs for various tractor models. From there she moved to Burroughs, again in finance; the firm later merged with Sperry to become Unisys. [6] After 13 years at Unisys, as Corporate Controller and General Manager of Global Services, she became General Auditor of General Motors, eventually moving to Switzerland as Chief Financial Officer of General Motors Europe.
From 1998 to 2000, Hopkins was Chief Financial Officer for The Boeing Company. [7] Hopkins then moved to Lucent Technologies as Chief Financial Officer. [8] The company did not do well and she was fired after one year. [4]
Hopkins joined Citigroup in 2003 as Head of Strategy, [9] later becoming the firm's Chief Operations & Technology Officer in 2005, and a senior advisor to the Global Investment Bank. In 2008, she became the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer, in the firm's 200-year history. [10] She also served as Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives seeking investment opportunities that support and enhance her mission. [11]
Hopkins serves as a member of the board for Union Pacific, [12] Marsh & McLennan, [13] and VentureWell. [14]
Hopkins also serves on the board of the Global Women's Leadership Network (GWLN),[ citation needed ] a non-profit project of Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business dedicated to women-led initiatives for social justice and economic sustainability, and on the board of Computers for Youth (CFY),[ citation needed ] and the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University. [15]
Hopkins is an Advisory Board Member at Stanford Technology Venture Program [16] and Riverwood Capital,[ citation needed ] as well as an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. [17]
Hopkins previously served as a board member or director to Qlik Technologies [18] and DuPont. [19]
A sought-after speaker and mentor, [20] Fortune magazine has twice named Hopkins one of the most powerful women in American business (No. 2 in 2000, No. 6 in 1999), [21] and in 2011 and 2012 she was named to the Institutional Investor's top Tech 50 list. [22]
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January 2010 Citi Ventures is founded in Palo Alto by Citi's first Chief Innovation Officer, Debby Hopkins
Debby Hopkins, chief innovation officer at Citigroup and chief executive of Citi Ventures, the bank's venture capital investment arm, is set to retire at the end of the year.
Union Pacific Corporation today announced that Deborah Chase Hopkins has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2017.
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC), a global professional services firm offering clients advice and solutions in risk, strategy and people, announced today that Deborah (Debby) C. Hopkins has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2017.
The 2014-15 Gala Committee is co-chaired by Joan Weill and Alice Chiang, with additional representation from GMC board members Anisya Fritz, Carol Miller, Debby Hopkins, Marne Olson, Cherie Hughes, Judy Vadasz, Janet Lamkin and Sharon Winslow.
Debby Hopkins, Citi's chief innovation officer and CEO of Citi Ventures, has been named a new Berkeley-Haas executive fellow.
Qlik Technologies Inc. ("QlikTech") (Nasdaq: QLIK), a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that Deborah Hopkins, chief innovation officer of Citi, has joined its board of directors as an independent officer, becoming its eighth member.