Chris Dickerson
CEO / Founder of Weplaygreen Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Education, Lifestyle, Sports |
| Skills: | Business, English, Languages, Leadership, Management, Sales, Spanish |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Nevada System - Reno |
FEATURED STARTUP
WEPLAYGREEN, INC
WEPLAYGREEN, INC
WePlayGreen’s is an initiative to alleviate the excessive amount of plastic bottles used throughout professional sports.
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | WEPLAYGREEN INC |
| Position: | CEO/Founder |
| Time period: | September 2008 - Present |
| Employer: | Indigo Hotels, Sarasota, FL |
| Position: | Interim Valet Manager |
| Time period: | September 2006 - January 2007 |
| Description: | My duties at this hotel were primarily as a valet but because the hotel was brand new and only had partial room availablitly due to construction, I was also responsible for making room amentity checks and reviewing the construction units to make sure the workers did not alter room configurations. In addition, I put together press kits and guest packages for the Hotel Opening event. Because of the lack of staff in the service area of the kitchen, I also served in the cafe and restaurant. |
| Employer: | InHance Media Inc., Los Angeles, CA |
| Position: | Product Placement |
| Time period: | August 2006 - January 2007 |
| Description: | Starting the company required a enourmous effort to sort throught unsigned and independent recording artists through a vast and detailed database. My job was to listen through this database for promising artists, collect contact information and follow up on possible interests of artists to be exclusively featured on InHance.net. Other acitvities were observation/creative input of the web design and funcoinality. |
| Employer: | LaGrant Communications, Los Angeles, CA |
| Position: | Intern |
| Time period: | May 1999 - July 1999 |
| Description: | As an undergraduate, I took the lead in designing a marketing campaign for a prospective client; assisted in compiling press kits; took part in staff meetings and brainstorming sessions, did general office work including telephone contact with media and clients and helped with event planning. |
| Employer: | Los Angeles Kids Baseball Camps, Los Angeles, CA |
| Position: | Camp Instructor |
| Time period: | May 1998 - July 1998 |
| Description: | I supervised the daily sports activities of 200 of grammar school children at this sports oriented day camp. This included coaching, coordinatibng practices and supervising games. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Nevada System - Reno |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Some College Coursework Completed |
Chris 's Startups (1)
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WEPLAYGREEN, INC
WePlayGreen’s is an initiative to alleviate the excessive amount of plastic bottles used throughout professional sports.
Chris is Following (4)
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Inhance Media, Inc.
Audiolife.com is the first, fully-integrated solution that allows musicians to sell all of their products-downloads, ringtones, cd's and merchandise- on any website, blog or social network on the web.
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GoHoster
GoHoster is a simple tool that makes it easy to create web pages for every internaut out there, both uninitiated and knowledgeable
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Yoga Bear
Yoga Bear, a grassroots non-profit, promotes health and wellness to cancer survivors through the practice of yoga.
Chris 's Contacts (3)
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Jennifer Corace
Advertising and Public Relations graduate from University of Central Florida, with Masters degree in Education from University of South Florida. Currently working as Southeast Development Director at Sports Ventures, LLC.
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Sean Gourley
CTO & co-founder of Quid. Building the next generation intelligence platform.
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