About
Chris Dessi is CEO of Silverback Social. He is also an award winning digital media executive, best-selling author, university lecturer, prominent blogger and keynote speaker. His book “Your World is Exploding: How Social Media is Changing Everything and How You Need to Change With It”, shot to #1 on Amazon.com’s Hot New Releases in it's first two weeks of publication. Dessi is a regular contributor on Fox News, and Good Day New York. Dessi was selected as The Business Council of Westchester's 40 Under 40 in 2012. He makes regular Radio appearances on such shows as the John Gambling show on WOR Radio in NYC, and the Mary Beth Marsden show in Baltimore on WBAL. Throughout his career Chris has worked with Fortune 500 businesses and start ups alike. Chris has contributed his social media writing to ADOTAS, and Social Media Today. He has been quoted in Mashable, and has lectured to military personal aboard the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum. Dessi leverages the platforms of television, print, keynote speaking, lecturing, and radio appearances to share his manifesto that social media is a spiritual awakening, not a technological one. In a simple, easily digestible manner he helps businesses understand that social media is not simply a shift in business, rather a cultural shift in the manner in which we aggregate and disseminate information and maps out each step they must take to succeed. Chris has a MS from NYU, and BA from Loyola University in Maryland.
— Chappaqua, NY
