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Dillon Bracken (born September 23rd, 1982) is an Entrepreneur and Real estate investor. He is currently the owner of a private marketing company affiliated with Nouveau Riche. Bracken is heavily involved with the education he markets, as his aim is to encourage and partake in the reformation of the American education system.

Early Life
Bracken was born in Sharon, Connecticut and raised the first four years of his life in nearby West Cornwall. He is the son of Janice Bracken, a nurse, and Don Bracken, artist and house painter, and is younger sibling to Aleigh Leigh Lewis (formerly Aleigh Leigh Bracken).

Thought to be deaf, Bracken spoke his first words, in sentence form, only from the age of four. Early on, he was diagnosed with an acute learning disability that greatly shaped the rest of his life and his personal thoughts on the current state of the America education system. In August 1987, Bracken’s family moved to Manhattan Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, so his mother could attend UCLA for a Masters in Nursing. Two years later the family moved back to Connecticut where he would reside until the age of 13, when he and his family would move to the western coastal city of San Francisco.

Education
Bracken completed his high school education in San Francisco with a scholarship to attend The Urban School of San Francisco. He excelled in sports and rowed for the Pacific Rowing Club who were ranked 2nd in the Nation and where he personally exceeded as the fastest lightweight rower in California.

Upon High School graduation, Bracken moved to Portland, Oregon where he attended Lewis and Clark College. Bracken graduated with a degree in both Mathematics and Computer Science while studying abroad in Ecuador. With a learning disability hindering his reading capabilities, Mathematics was a solution for him to keep up in studies while Computer Science was the solution to his dyslexia by improving the speed and efficiency by which to use Mathematics.

While enrolled at Lewis and Clark, Bracken evolved the Computer Science program by developing the highest-level undergraduate computer science course that is currently offered. He consulted with the various Lewis and Clark business administrative branches to establish mathematical modeling and statistical analysis projections. Bracken was also given a grant to develop and build a wireless gas powered skateboard.

Upon graduation and a brief year working as a bartender, Bracken moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he currently resides.

Career
Bracken’s entrepreneurial career started at the age of four when he would sell snails door-to-door in his LA neighborhood. Upon his move back to Connecticut he took up a paper route that earned him enough money to purchase approximately 20 chickens and start a chicken farm at the age of eight. The chicken egg business flourished and diversified to accommodate not only the residential community but also the local restaurant business. He specialized in selling the somewhat obscure blue Araucana eggs. Upon retiring and selling the chicken coup, he used his profit to invest in Disney stock. The stock successfully split four times. At this same time, being of eight years old, Bracken sold two of his personal paintings at a silent auction, showcasing his duel talents for business and creativity.

Upon moving to Hawaii, Bracken worked various jobs, a Marketer for Wyndham Worldwide and running his own business buying and selling motorcycles. In 2006, Bracken began his Real Estate Investment career that has since flourished by partaking in intensive educational programs, which he now markets for.

As an innovator, Bracken has also created an educational tool that will assist others in learning to Speed Read, called the iPagePacer.

--CristenOlson (talk) 04:33, 3 March 2010 (UTC)