Education
B.A. in Economics, Fordham University
M.B.A. in Finance, Fordham University
Doctoral coursework in Behavioral Economics, Fordham University
About Athlete GM
The firm beside the family.
Athlete GM is Hudson Companies’ Family CFO architecture for athlete households — fee-only fiduciary leadership from Chris Conover and the Hudson team. We sit next to the family as the first hire: governance, professional oversight, and long-horizon capital discipline.
30+ years experienceFee-only fiduciary100+ NCAA D1 relationships
Founder & President
Chris Conover
Fee-only fiduciary adviser. Builder of Hudson Companies. Partner to families who want clarity under complexity — including athlete households navigating attention, income, and long-term wealth.
Chris has more than 30 years of investment management experience, including more than a decade on Wall Street with Guardian Life Insurance and Van Eck Global before founding Hudson in 2008. What stuck with him was not product. It was the gap: institutional investors received depth, research, and proactive counsel; individual families often received a sales process dressed up as advice.
He formed Hudson to close that gap — so families and athletes could access serious planning and portfolio discipline without surrendering the relationship to a call center or a product shelf.
At a glance
Founder and President of Hudson Companies (est. 2008). Fee-only fiduciary based in Pearl River, NY — working with athlete families who need architecture, not more noise.
Education & formation
Background that shows up in the advice.
Markets are hard. People are harder. Chris’s academic work in behavioral economics informs how Hudson designs plans families can actually follow — reducing avoidable mistakes driven by fear, recency, or overconfidence without talking down to anyone.
Professional Path
More than 30 years of investment management experience, including Guardian Life Insurance and Van Eck Global
Founded Hudson Companies in 2008
Community
Board service: Montefiore Nyack
Saint Catharine’s Parish Finance Council
Local charitable leadership including Jawonio and Meals on Wheels
Why families trust Athlete GM
Locker rooms and family tables. Same standard as the boardroom.
Chris presents regularly to Division I and Power 4 university athletic departments on athlete wealth, NIL readiness, and financial decision-making. Hudson maintains relationships with more than 100 NCAA Division I programs — bringing the same counsel into athletic department settings and family meetings that private-wealth clients expect in the boardroom.
Campus
D1 / Power 4 speaking
Frequent presentations to athletic departments on wealth architecture, readiness, and decision-making under pressure.
Network
100+ NCAA D1 relationships
A national web of program relationships that supports access, context, and serious conversations — not marketing theater.
Standard
Fiduciary, always
Fee-only advice through an SEC-registered investment adviser. We do not take deal commissions.
What Athlete GM is
Not an Agent. The General Manager.
Athletes do not need another hype machine. They need someone who will protect the balance sheet, slow down bad decisions, and build a plan that still works when the jersey changes.
Structure the money
Turn income into a cash-flow system: taxes, savings, lifestyle, and reserves before lifestyle expands to the edges.
Build the long book
Investment policy sized for a short peak-earning window and a long life after competition.
Support the family unit
Parents and athletes get the same fiduciary standard — clear roles, fewer surprises, better decisions under pressure.
Boundaries that protect you
We are not your agent. We are not your attorney. We do not take deal commissions. We coordinate with agents, CPAs, and counsel when it helps you. We do not negotiate endorsement contracts — we help you manage who does.
How Chris advises
Fee-only. Fiduciary. Always. Goals and cash flow before product conversation. Long-term portfolio discipline — no performance theater. Tax, estate, and family dynamics in the same room as investments. Plain language. Written plans. Honest tradeoffs.
Where we work
Pearl River. Greater New York. National athlete relationships.
Office at 1 Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River, New York. We serve clients across Rockland, Westchester, Bergen, and the broader New York metro — and athlete families whose lives do not sit neatly inside a county line. Meetings by appointment; virtual available when needed.
I
Listen
Career stage, family dynamics, deals in motion, and what “safe” looks like for you — before any big first decisions.
II
Design
Written GM plan: accounts, rules, investment policy, and who does what — a coherent operating picture for the household.
III
Guide
Ongoing fiduciary management as income, rosters, and life change. The GM stays on after the first call.
Next step
If the stakes are high, start with a real conversation.
Come as you are. Bring parents, questions, and whatever is already in motion. Chris and the Hudson team will listen first — then outline how Athlete GM would work, and whether the fit is real.
Reach Hudson
- 1 Blue Hill Plaza, 1st Floor, Pearl River, NY 10965
- Private & confidential · No obligation · Fiduciary standard
For firm disclosures including Forms ADV and CRS, visit hudcos.com.