Chris Cooper, CFP
President
Chris Cooper & Company, Inc. and ElderCare Advocates, Inc.
Chris Cooper is the owner and founder of Chris Cooper & Company, Inc., a fee-only financial planning firm working with people who own small businesses, with persons preparing to retire, and very elderly persons. Chris provides counseling and guidance in the areas of investments, taxation, and estate preservation.
Chris Cooper is also the owner and founder of ElderCare Advocates, Inc. a private geriatric care management and long term care consulting firm. ElderCare Advocates is a free standing, non-hospital or other health care provider affiliated, firm providing comprehensive assessments & planning of long term care needs of disabled adults and the frail elderly. Assessments are made across the medical, psychological, social, environmental, legal and financial aspects of a person's life.
Chris holds a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from Wright State University, a Masters degree in Financial Services from the American College, and a graduate certificate in Gerontology from Bowling Green State University . Chris hold the CERTIFIED FINACIAL PLANNER™ certification and is enrolled to practice and represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service.
Chris Cooper, CFP® is a financial commentator for the ABC owned and operated WTVG-TV, Channel 13, in Toledo, Ohio appearing every Monday on 13 Action News at Noon. Chris has appeared on CBS's Early Show, NBC's Today show, on KGTV 10News in San Diego, CA and regularly appears on CNBC's Power Lunch. He is regularly quoted in print in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Money magazine, SmartMoney, and many other fine publications.