| Website | chrisennis.com |
| Blog | chrisennis.com |
| Birthplace | Nashville, TN |
| Birthdate | 9/6/75 |
| Middle Tennessee State University, BS | 1998 |
| Computer Science |
Chris Ennis is a web developer, strategist and entrepreneur from Nashville, Tennessee.
At the age of 19, Ennis founded a web development company specializing in online inventory management for SMB. By 22, Ennis had sold his first company and was serving as a consultant for internet portal Excite when the opportunity to institute a core component of Ennis’ first enterprise application, bar code scanning, into the new medium of online ticket sales.
In 2002, Ennis joined Nashville non-profit Foundations Associates and proceeded to build several web products for the organization including a data management application, Housing Within Reach - A state funded website helping individuals with mental illnesses find housing, and SoberCircle. Ennis helped found SoberCircle in October 2006. The project opened the door for Ennis to use his extensive user experience background with the exciting new medium of online social networking. Ennis is often referred to as “The Tom of SoberCircle”, due to his status as the customer service face of the website.
Ennis is also a founding member of DotRage, a collaboration of developers to make a better web. He is also an investor in several startups including Pollate, Meetica, Function Interactive and JumboTron Media. Ennis has also served as a consultant for several projects including Doc Check and Kaala. Ennis is also known in his native Nashville, Tennessee for starting one of the first localized Twitter aggregators, NashMash.com.
