Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> December 2, 2002
CHRISTOPHER P. BAKER is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of
the Board of ZonePerfect Nutrition Company, a Boston-based
nutrition company that creates and distributes nutritious food
with a 40/30/30 ratio of carbohydrate, protein, and dietary fat.
With more than 20 years' merchant banking experience, Mr. Baker
has turned ZonePerfect Nutrition into a profitable and thriving
company. Mr. Baker began his career at Donaldson, Lufkin &
Jenrette in New York where he served as manager of firm-wide
retail sales for the Options Department. During his tenure, he
increased sales of the firm's option product by 300%. After
leaving Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Mr. Baker held various
senior level administrative and sales positions at other
investment banks including Goldman Sachs, C.L. Glaser & Co.,
Glenhaven Partners, Mosley Hallgarten and Prudential. At
Prudential, he was one of the top 50 sales representatives in the
country. Mr. Baker left Prudential in 1990, and founded C.P.
Baker & Company, a merchant bank, investment advisory firm and
sole owner of C.P. Baker Securities, Inc., a registered broker-
dealer. Mr. Baker serves as company President. In 1996, C.P.
Baker & Company stepped in to help run a fledgling company called
Eicotech, an investment of one of their private equity funds.
Under his leadership, Eicotech became ZonePerfect Nutrition and
developed a nutrition plan now followed by hundreds of thousands
of people worldwide. ZonePerfect can now be found in major retail
outlets across the country and recently was ranked number 307 on
the 2002 Inc Magazine 500 list of fastest growing private
companies. Mr. Baker holds a BA in English and Philosophy from
Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard University. Profile
Perfect and then a short description of what's going on at the
present time?
Mr. Baker: The company was founded in August 1996,
