Ed Hope

Edward "Ed" Francis Hope was the president of Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation, a company that manufactured cryocapsules, and cryopreserved people for cosmetic reasons. He founded it in 1965. Before starting Cryo-Care, Hope had owned a racetrack, delivered oil, operated a New Jersey nightclub called Chubby’s, and established a very lucrative career in wig making.

Cryo-Care cryopreserved four people in the 1960s: "Sarah Gilbert", Louis Nisco, Eva Schulman, and Donald Kester Sr.