Christos M. Cotsakos, Ph.D. is Founding Chairman, CEO and President of EndPlay, Inc., a leading cloud provider of Web Content Management (WCM) solutions to enterprise clients in media, entertainment and education.

Dr. Cotsakos is also Founder, Chairman and CEO of Pennington Ventures, LLC, a digital media and strategic management company. Formerly, Dr. Cotsakos served as Chairman and CEO of E*TRADE Group, Inc., where he led the company to pioneer the personal online investment market. He also served as global Co-CEO of ACNielsen, Founding Co-Managing Partner at ArrowPath Ventures and served in several senior executive positions at Federal Express Corporation. He is considered to be one of the visionaries, architects and entrepreneurs of e-commerce and e-finance and is among a team of co-inventors listed in multiple patent applications covering methods and data structure for obtaining, distributing, managing and utilizing information, including online content and user biographical content in an online networking system.

Dr. Cotsakos holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London. He also received an MBA with honors from Pepperdine University and a BA in Communications with honors from William Paterson University. In 2001, William Paterson University named its business school the Cotsakos College of Business in honor of Dr. Cotsakos. He is a decorated combat veteran who served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam.