Location New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male Also Known As Chris
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Christopher Reade started programming computers in 1984 at age 13, and he started his first company doing desktop publishing in 1988 at 17. After graduating college from Rutgers University in 1994, he started his second company, doing outsourced e-mail in 1995.
After moving to New Orleans from Manhattan in the early 2000s, he co-founded a company
called Carrollton Technology Partners in 2003. In 2013, the company, by then called Carrollton Group, split up into sister-companies. Mr. Reade currently still runs the Enterprise Services division of Carrollton Group as Carrollton Enterprise Services and renamed the software development division LookFar. In 2016, he started Entrepreneur Mortgage Finance, a new kind of mortgage banking company that caters to the self-employed and entrepreneurs.
In 2015, his company LookFar founded the annual Ada Lovelace Awards, which celebrate women in technology from across the Gulf South region. LookFar achieved Inc. 5000 status in 2015 and was named City Businesses’ Best Place to Work in New Orleans.
Mr. Reade is the immediate past president of Entrepreneur’s Organization of Louisiana, a member of the state’s Innovation Council, a past president of the Young Leadership Council of New Orleans, a board member of the Metropolitan Crime Commission and a Chairman’s Council member of the New Orleans Chamber. Some past involvements in civic life include work as a board member of SciHigh, being a founding board member of CourtWatch NOLA, a board member of the NPR affiliate WWNO and a 2005 graduate of CBNO/Mac. In 2017 he was the Downtown Development “what’s working downtown” award winner. In 2007 he was awarded the Liberty Bell award by the Bar Association for his work in Criminal Justice and was YLC’s Leadership Mentor of the Year in 2003.
