Chris Elley

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About Chris Elley

Chris Elley creates ideas and then brings them to life, often in ways others never would have imagined. With each new era in his creative journey Chris adds a medium or two, building up a layered experience. He’s known for mixing what others might consider polar opposites, including art and business. While he enjoys his solo artistic endeavors immensely, Chris also thrives in collaborative environments, sometimes as the driving force and other times taking joy in quietly supporting others in intentionally and uncomfortably stretching their thoughts and perspectives.These themes pervade a life and career of seemingly contradictory experiences from being a visual artist to being trained by the world’s foremost business historian and Hoover’s Financial namesake, Gary Hoover. Chris dented pop culture with six seasons of the docuseries he co-created and executive produced for NBC networks, Friday Night Tykes. The Emmy-nominated series set off a firestorm in the national media about concussions and approaches in youth sports, including public cries for the show’s cancellation by the NFL and even a youth concussion summit convened by the United Nations. Chris’ creative work has always been characterized by vividly illuminating links that others do not see. His incredibly deep range of experiences bolsters this innate ability from exposure to everything from intense creativity to equally intense business endeavors. Sectors have included: fine arts, national defense, hardware design, professional sports, software development, entertainment and brand building – all tied together with the common thread he brings. As much as Chris relishes the building of creative and business opportunities, it’s by far more important to him how people treat, challenge and value one another within those processes.