LEADERSHIP

Steve Hopkins
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Steve Hopkins is the President and CEO of ANSER, providing strategic and visionary leadership, ensuring ANSER is well-positioned to serve their customers as a premier partner today and in the future, and guaranteeing ANSER maintains the highest level of integrity and a strong commitment to the public interest.
Mr. Hopkins brings a wealth of expertise garnered from his more than 30 years of comprehensive experience as a business leader at ANSER. Prior to his promotion to President and CEO, he served as ANSER’s Chief Operating Officer, where he provided leadership for ANSER’s client-focused operations in professional services and analytical studies across a myriad of challenging domains, including homeland defense, combating weapons of mass destruction, mission assurance, science and technology, and global threats and intelligence. His experience covers professional services for clients implementing complex technology-focused programs across the Federal Government, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Agencies, the Military Services, NASA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Intelligence Community. For six months in 1994, he lived and worked in Moscow as head of ANSER’s Moscow Office.
He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College (now Defense Acquisition University) Advanced Program Management Course and completed executive leadership courses at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management as well as at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. He has degrees from the United States Naval Academy and the University of Chicago.
Chris Van Metre
ATI President & Chief Executive Officer
Chris Van Metre was born in Philadelphia, PA, the son of a career naval officer. He moved frequently with his family many times during his childhood starting school in Charleston, SC, and ultimately graduating from high school in Virginia Beach, VA. After high school, Chris attended the University of Notre Dame on a Naval ROTC scholarship and majored in Aerospace Engineering.
In April 2012, he became the third President and CEO of the renamed Advanced Technology International (ATI). In this role, he oversees the strategic direction of ATI, which has grown to a $1.5 Billion collaboration management services company. ATI’s mission is to lessen the burden of government by supporting federal government agencies, industry, and universities in the collaborative execution of our nation’s most innovative research initiatives. ATI-leads R&D collaborations that cover a broad array of technology domains including armaments, biotechnology, electromagnetic spectrum, space technologies, advanced materials, shipbuilding, and ship repair. Building multi-disciplinary teams from the private sector (Fortune 500 companies to small businesses), federal agencies and universities to deliver prototype technologies is a prominent feature of these programs.
Chris’ experience includes strategic planning, technology development road-mapping and multi-organizational and multi-disciplinary consortia formation. His technical and engineering expertise has been invaluable in creating teams to focus R&D efforts in many areas. He has been the catalyst behind new alliances formed among stakeholder groups from industry, academia and the federal government to define and prioritize technology requirements and potential solutions, where robust collaboration among diverse groups was critical to a successful outcome. During his tenure at ATI, Chris has overseen two acquisitions and, in 2017, the sale of ATI from SCRA to Analytic Services (ANSER) in Falls Church, VA. As President and CEO, Chris has led the growth of ATI from annual revenues of $150 Million to $1.5 Billion with ATI repeatedly being recognized as a South Carolina Best Places to Work.
Chris is very active in the local community, serving on the Lowcountry Heart Walk Executive Leadership team, as Chair of the Citadel’s Engineering Leadership and Program Management Advisory Board, as the Regional Director of Officials for SC High School League Swimming and as a mentor for several local young professionals. Chris and Rose are the incredibly proud parents of three children: Brian, a Navy Lieutenant teaching NROTC at Notre Dame, Ashleigh, a Navy Lieutenant physician in her first year of residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD and Regan, a Navy Ensign in first year of Medical School at USC-Greenville. They are also the parents of four dogs – two English Bulldogs, a golden retriever and a Great Dane mix.
