Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Chris Dessi, is Chief Revenue Officer, at Diamond Standard. The world's first regulator-approved Diamond Commodity. Most recently, Chris served as VP, Americas & Australia, and Productsup. Former founder & CEO of Silverback Social (sold to PerformLine, Inc in October 2017), TEDx speaker, personal branding expert, author, and keynote speaker.

In addition to his latest book, Remarkable You: Build a Personal Brand, and Take Charge of Your Career, he has written two other books. A book about success titled, Just Like You: 24 Interviews of Ordinary People Who Have Achieved Extraordinary Success. In 2012, Chris‘s debut book titled Your World is Exploding: How Social Media is Changing Everything and How You Need to Change with It shot to #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases. He regularly appears on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Good Day New York, & FOX BUSINESS’s Varney & Co.

He has been quoted in Mashable, & has delivered a keynote to the United States Marines aboard the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum. His event the Westchester Digital Summit has been featured in Forbes Magazine. His creative personal branding has been featured in Fortune Magazine. He was an editorial contributor on Inc.com for two years.

In 2012, Dessi was selected by the Business Council of Westchester’s 40 Under 40 for exemplifying leadership, foresight, and a vision for the future of Westchester County, where he currently resides with his wife and two daughters Talia & Olivia. Consistent with his passion for his professional career is the devotion he has to his family. Having never been a runner, he trained to run the New York City Marathon to raise money for the ALS Association after his father was diagnosed with the disease. When the Marathon was canceled after Hurricane Sandy hit, he took it upon himself to run his own 26.2-mile marathon route in Westchester to honor his father. The story was covered in Sports Illustrated. The disease took his Father’s life on February 3rd, 2015.