Mark Hopkins is an executive, entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of Rallyday Partners. His book, Shortcut to Prosperity was published in 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 services company, in 1996. Over the course of 8 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 venture capital firm making early stage investments. 

In 2018 Mark co-founded Rallyday Partners, a private equity firm providing growth capital to businesses whose growth is accelerated by access to capital and the firms’ wealth of operating expertise.

Mark serves on the Board of Directors for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) as well on the Board of Directors of MicroTechnologies, TurboTenant, AMSR, The Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver, and former YPO Rocky Mountain Chapter Chair.