Ken Cooper is the President and Managing Director of Four Hills Advisors.
Founded in 2013, Four Hills Advisors recently celebrated 10 years of serving clients as a boutique investor relations and financial consultancy based in Minneapolis, MN. Four Hills is known for incredible service and candid feedback for a mix of small and mid-sized clients across a diverse set of industries. Four Hills also manages the IR BarnTM,platform, which is a one-stop shop of investor relations tools and resources for CFO’s and IRO’s.
Prior to founding Four Hills, Ken was a vice president for Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LTH), where he spent 14 years helping Life Time grow from $53M in revenues to $1.1B, mainly in a finance capacity. Included in his career at Life Time was building and running Life Time’s investor relations efforts from the time of its June 2004 initial IPO until 2010. In addition during his tenure, Ken was part of a team that acquired over $1 billion in capital (combination of debt and equity), led the company’s budget and forecast process for a number of years, and built the Company’s detailed capital planning model, which serves as the lifeblood of all critical and material decisions for Life Time. Ken also spent time as the managing executive of an operational division (Athletic Events and Endurance) and in Corporate Development (M&A). Not to mention rolling up the sleeves and filling in on lots of other things that helped Life Time go from a Minneapolis gym company to a national healthy-way-of-life leisure brand.
Ken started his career at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he provided audit advisory and process improvement services to mainly retail, restaurant and hospitality clients, including Carlson Companies, Inc., National Car Rental, Carlson Hospitality (hotels), Rainforest Café, and Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.. Ken earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Penn State University.
Ken resides in the Twin Cities with his bride, Kathleen, and their 3 daughters Lily, Madeline and Avery. A long-time athlete, he still competes on the masters running circuit, bikes regularly, and loves March Madness. He also coaches his kids in hoops and track.