Boathouse Leadership Team
John Connors
Founder/CEO
John is the founder and president of Boathouse. John grew up in the advertising business, starting his career at Hill Holliday. John went on to serve as CEO of Zentropy Partners, an internet services business, and served as a part of the McCann World Group Management team—at the time the largest agency in the world. In 2001, he founded Boathouse. John received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and spent 12 weeks at a transformative executive education boot camp at Harvard Business School.
Chris Boland
Founder/CFO
Chris is CFO of Boathouse. He co-founded Boathouse with John in 2001. He worked in banking at Wells Fargo and consulting at IBM prior to teaming up with John at Hill Holliday and Zentropy Partners. Chris received a BS in Economics from Penn/Wharton and an MBA from Northwestern/Kellogg.