About

Charles T. Cooksey is the creator of the Impact Protection System (IPS). He is an Inventor, Innovator, Product Designer/Developer, and Product Manager. He has more than three decades of corporate and entrepreneurial experience in IT, Sales, Marketing, PR, Event Management, Employment Services, and Client Representation. Driven by creative forward thinking, he graduated from the Northwestern University Master of Product Design and Development Management (MPD2) program. Now, influenced and elevated by MPD2’s “Design Thinking” concepts, Cooksey is combining his experience, education, and creativity to produce new solution-oriented and life-enhancement products for global consumers.

Cooksey designed IPS as a helmet system to prevent, minimize, and mitigate catastrophic Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Neck Injuries (NI) in impact-prone sports/recreation activities. His initiative was based in his passion for American football. He played the sport from the age of 8 through his college years at Langston University in Langston OK. Sports agents and NFL scouts recognized his professional potential but it was never realized. Even though he didn’t experience a professional football career, his passion for the sport has sustained and he is a fan forever.

Unfortunately, Cooksey has been challenged as a fan when seeing football players laying motionless on the field after high-impact collisions. Such visuals ignited Cooksey’s health focus in football. Shaken by the possibility of players being paralyzed due to neck injuries, he determined that football, typically cast as a health “villain”, was actually the “victim” due to obsolete and inadequate equipment.

Cooksey resolved that dynamically safer sports/recreation equipment had to be created to protect the neck and spinal cord. He then proceeded agressively to conceptualize IPS to prevent and minimize NI issues. Concurrently, TBI issues, specifically Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), became the media’s focal point. The spotlight was cast on former NFL, collegiate, and youth players’ debilitating mental disease, early deaths, and suicides. Cooksey then expanded his focus to address TBI issues as well.

As IPS design and development progressed, Cooksey added 13 sports/recreation activities and a health safety application to IPS’s product lines. The activities and application include: Football, Bull/Bronco Riding, Downhill Skiing, Motocross, Skateboarding, Motorcycling, Ski Jumping, Hockey, Boxing, Cycling, Bobsledding, Snowboarding, Equestrian Riding, Lacrosse, and Fall-prone Physically Challenged.

IPS is being scaled for 15 global consumer markets, and market placement dates will be determined in the coming months. Once in the marketplace, IPS, a helmet system featuring unprecedented head, brain, and neck impact protection, will become the world leader in next-generation safety for sports/recreation participants and the physically challenged.

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