As Chief Technology Officer and President of the Technology Investments Group, Chet focuses on identifying and cultivating strategic investments within Kingdom Capital’s technology sector. He oversees the technology portfolio and provides leadership and guidance for other Kingdom Capital sectors around needed technologies. Kingdom Capital is a values-driven private investment firm who serves investors who prefer that their capital is managed in accordance with its Service, Humility, Integrity, Excellence, Love, Diversity (SHIELD) values and is invested in companies whose cultures and leadership endeavor to reflect these values. Kingdom Capital and its investors believe that these values, and similar values, drive meaningful quantitative and qualitative value creation.
Prior to Kingdom Capital, Chet spent 25 years at General Electric in various information technology senior leadership roles and most recently was the SVP and Chief Technology Officer for the infrastructure products. His organization was responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of all the infrastructure products for the General Electric Corporation globally. He also led the product management process and was a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
Chet is a Navy veteran and spent 8 years as a nuclear engineer on-board fast attack submarines where he supervised the operations of the nuclear propulsion power plant and ran the Electrical Division. He participated in the Gulf War in both the Desert Shield and Desert Storm campaigns and was discharged honorably.
Chet attended the University of Louisville Speed Scientific School where he completed his pre-engineering studies before completing his Nuclear Engineering studies in the United States Navy.
Chet is active in the communities in which he has served and has sat on an array of boards. Currently, he is on the boards of Biblical Business Training (BBT), a global non-profit ministry that helps people apply Biblical principles at work; Young Catholic Professionals (YCP), a nonprofit on a mission to challenge, train, and inspire young adults working in various professions to Work in Witness for Christ; Refuge & Restoration Marketplace NPO whose mission is to provide collaborative services & career opportunities for individuals and families in disadvantaged communities.
Chet also sits on professional boards where he helps to guide and shape companies in the area of technology. Focusing on next generation analytics and artificial intelligence, these include AstrumU, an “education to employment” field-leveling AI firm; Quantum Star Technologies, a multidimensional malware detection AI company; and, PercayAI, a fundamentally different AI software across a variety of healthcare applications.
Chet lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He is active in his local parish and is married to Lindsay and has four daughters Brittany, Elyse, Gabriella, Madeline, a son, Chet Junior (CJ) and grandson, Brycen.
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