Kris Hopkins

About Kris Hopkins

A software entrepreneur, inventor, and product authority, Kris currently holds the position of Chief Product Officer at RAIsonance. There, Kris oversees the teams in charge of product management, engineering, MLOps, and DevOps, steering the company\'s medical and wellness AI software products. With a track record of leading strategy, product, and engineering divisions as both a CPO and CTO at various firms, Kris has directed these companies through numerous successful exits. This includes pioneering Strategic Product Management for emerging products at Oracle | Acme Packet and leading Newfound Communications as CEO. Kris successfully expanded Newfound, sold it to Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), and transformed its Software as a Service division into Surgent Networks.Kris delivers product management, leadership, and strategic consulting for companies expanding their product portfolios in agile and lean development pipelines. With a focus on the largest enterprise and government customers, his leadership builds robust cloud-based and premise-based software products, SDKs, and APIs for businesses to provide secure and efficient solutions.Kris is a graduate of Cornell University where he was the recipient of the Dorman Family Award for Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Excellence.Specialties: AI/ML, Conversational AI, Speech Recognition, WebRTC, VoIP/SIP, Video, Call recording, Telecommunications, Software Development (Javascript, Java, C++, Objective C, etc.), AWS/Azure, SDLC (Jira/Azure Devops, Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, Jenkins, CI/CD).

Experience

1. Chief Product Officer

   Raisonance Group

   Feb 2023 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Grew product portfolio 53% by developing and launching 8 new AI-powered respiratory diagnostic products, including AudibleHealth AI 2.0, TestHub Client API, and Field Screener.Expanded global market presence and delivered respiratory screenings in 27 countries, growing customer base 267%. Led end-to-end test automation initiative, achieving automated testing across the portfolio, accelerating release delivery time by fully integrating with CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps, and drove 62% increase in product releases.Supported 5 active clinical trials across South Africa, India, and Ukraine for TB, COVID, and Influenza screening.Led technology modernization: Python 3.8 to 3.12 migration.NET 9.0/Blazor upgrade, Azure Key Vault integration, Copilot & Claude Code Integration.Secured 3 patents for audio-based respiratory screening technology.Acting Chief Security Officer ensuring SAST, DAST (OWASP ZAP), pen testing, and analysis of common vulnerability patterns (SQL injection, command injection, XSS, authentication bypasses, etc.) in line with 524B of the FD & C Act as part of FDA’s Medical Device Cybersecurity Guidance.Product advisor since May 2022, full-time employee starting in Feb.

Education

• Cornell University

  Bachelors of Science, Business Management & Marketing

  1992 — 1997

• Cornell University

  Bachelor of Science, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES

Skills

• Call Centers
• Business Development
• Session Initiation Protocol (Sip)
• Cti
• Technology Integration
• Saas
• Professional Services
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Telephony
• Mobile Devices
• Product Management
• Speech Recognition
• Vxml
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Ivr
• Strategy
• Ccxml
• Business Strategy
• Enterprise Software
• Sip
• Start-Ups
• Strategic Leadership
• Unified Communications
• Entrepreneurship
• Telecommunications
• Voip
• Program Management