About Phelan
Phelan Riessen is a serial entrepreneur, self made traditional artist and graphic artist, airbrusher, fontographer, web designer, photoshop artist and web marketing strategist. He is currently the CEO of Digithrive, Inc.
Phelan does his part in the San Diego tech community by running RefreshSD a monthly local web user group held at Qualcomm every second Tuesday of the month. He's helped run BarCampSD since its inception which attracts 250+ people over the event weekend. Phelan also helped bring sponsors to the table for the successful Cool As Ever Tech that attracted 600 local San Diegans to a private event at the Del Mar Race track. As of January 2010 has also helped put together SDTechScene.org, a calendar of San Diego tech events which include all the local tech groups.
Noted Accomplishments:
- Owned and operated a T-shirt printing business in San Diego for 18 years and successfully sold it off to another company in 2008.
- Once worked a forty hour day for a client project. Started at 8:00 am in the morning and completed it midnight the next night.
- In the hay day of pogs, designed a set of them for a client. The final production run was 1 million
Connect with Phelan:
- Twitter: @imagium
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/phelanriessen
- FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/phelan.riessen