36 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine BUSINESS, FINANCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DR. CHARLES CORTLAND HOOPER SYSTEMS ENGINEER, U.S. NAVAL OFFICER, REAL ESTATE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPER, CAPITAL STRATEGIST Leesburg, FL Dr. Charles Cortland Hooper is among a rare class of professionals who have performed at the highest levels across four unrelated disciplines: advanced defense engineering, commissioned military command, large-scale real estate and technology development, and capital finance. Over a career spanning nearly six decades, he has designed missile guidance systems, led U.S. Naval operations during wartime, personally developed and financed more than $500 million in real estate assets, and arranged over $6.3 billion in project financing for clients across North America. His work has been published in the Harvard Business Review and entered into the U.S. Congressional Record. He has served as CEO, CFO and chairman of the board across multiple public and private enterprises. Dr. Hooper graduated #1 among UCLA’s 35,000 students with a Bachelor of Science in systems engineering with highest honors, a discipline that trains practitioners to design and manage large, complex, interdependent infrastructures. He completed a Master of Science in management sciences through a combined program at UCLA’s Graduate Business School and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and then fulfilled all PhD requirements in finance and human behavior by 1975. He also completed a residency at Los Alamos National Laboratories. This credential profile – three advanced degrees across engineering, management and behavioral finance – is virtually without parallel among development executives of his generation. Before entering the private sector, Dr. Hooper served with the Navy Seals and as a commissioned U.S. Navy officer during the Vietnam War era, earning the distinction of Top Naval Officer in his Grade across the entire Navy and ranking #1 of 6,200 midshipmen nationally during officer training. He accumulated more than 25 service medals. Concurrently, by age 22, he led the engineering team responsible for guidance mechanisms on the U.S. Army’s Hawk and Nike ground-to-air missile platforms, systems forming a critical layer of national air defense. His military excellence was recognized with Gold Medals from the American Society of Military Engineers, the American Legion
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