From an early age, Chris demonstrated a combination of creativity and problem solving that made his career path crystal clear. He dreamed of becoming an architect, excelled at drafting in high school and interned for an architectural firm based out of a Frank Lloyd Wright home in NJ while beginning his undergraduate study in PA. As he would later learn several times throughout his career, he was “early” in his thinking, as the housing boom was still a decade in the future. Luckily, the stock market boom was in full force in the 1990s, and Chris realized that his creative talent and analytical abilities were equally suited for constructing homes or portfolios. While most of the business wo