Chris Nedza

Chris is a serial entrepreneur and loves diving into start-up businesses. He’s built an Inc. 500 company, led a turnaround as the CEO of a restaurant Point of Sale company, became CEO of an Ozone based technology company, and even brought his creative thinking and love of
students to Gwinnett County Public Schools by becoming a high-school teacher and ultimately coordinator of academy business partnerships in 2014.

He most recently founded and scaled ZeeZor, a real-time mobile reporting and employee engagement platform for the beauty industry. ZeeZor was acquired by Vista Private Equity group in early 2020 and
became part of Mindbody, a business management software system for the fitness, wellness, and salon/spa industry.

Chris is currently serving as the Lead EIR (entrepreneur-in-residence) and is on the faculty/staff of Georgia-Tech University. In his role, he helps technology companies with ideation>launch>funding>scale. Chris also serves as a partner at Telos Partners a fractional C-Suite consulting firm. He coaches CEO’s and other C-Suite leaders on a wide range of topics including Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Leadership, Venture Funding, Organizational Design and Exiting the business.

He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Emory University. He is a frequent contributing author, keynote speaker, devoted husband, father to 6 sons, drummer at church and championship level Pizza eater.