As a "C"-level executive for four companies (three private and one public) over the last 20 years, Hank Coleman has experience in many industries. Most recently, he has served in executive roles for startup companies in home automation, consumer package goods, product labeling, and, with Open Labs, the music business. Previous experience includes the restaurant industry, consumer products, publishing, and software development.
With Twenty/20 Visual Systems, as CEO and chairman, Hank was granted two patents and later sold the company to Radiant Systems (Nasdaq: RADS) of Atlanta, Georgia, in a stock and cash transaction. As part of the sales agreement, Hank served as a senior vice president in the Food Service division of Radiant. Hank was hired away by Listman Home Technologies (Atlanta) in 2001 and served as interim CEO for 18 months after venture capital funding was secured. Hank began in a limited engagement with Open Labs in 2003. He agreed to serve as CEO at the request of the founders in November 2006.
Hank graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University as a designated university scholar in the Bachelor of Arts program.