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Chitoka Webb was born in 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee.

She is the Chief Executive Officer of Chitoka L.Webb Holdings, Inc., a holding company based in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Two of Ms. Webb’s ventures are Connecting Hearts of Alabama and Unity Residential Services of Tennessee, which serve the developmentally disabled throughout the Southeast region.

Ms. Webb’s first job in Nashville involved working at a Nashville barbershop where she honed her skills in professional networking. Eventually she left Nashville to work at one of the largest barbershops in Atlanta, where she nurtured numerous relationships with many well known professional athletes and business leaders.

Ms. Webb returned to Nashville to open up her own barbershop on October 16, 2001. In 2004, Ms. Webb secured state and federal contracts and funding through local banking institutions to develop a new state-of-the-art barbershop.

Over the next few years Ms. Webb continued to use her barbershop and its growing network of professional and community contacts to explore other avenues for business ventures. One day, while working part time as a caregiver for a local not for profit agency, Ms. Webb learned of the need for more comprehensive services in Tennessee for the developmentally disabled, which prompted her to launch a professional venture in this arena of care.

Unity Residential Services, Inc. opened its doors in Nashville in 2004, followed by the opening of Connecting Hearts Residential Services in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 2006.

In September 2007, with her business enterprises expanding, Ms. Webb founded Chitoka L.Webb Holdings, Inc. a company through which she oversees all her professional and community ventures.

In September 2005 she unexpectedly lost her vision. After receiving powerful doses of steroid eye injections her vision eventually returned to normalcy. In October 2008, after undergoing a series of medical tests, various treatments and eye surgery, Ms. Webb was diagnosed with Behcets, which is a rare debilitating autoimmune disease that originates from the Middle East, China and Japan. In the United States there are only approximately 15,000 reported cases of Behcets. Today Ms. Webb manages her disease through medication and periodic infusion treatments.

In addition to her current work, Ms. Webb continues to explore new professional ventures, is collaborating on a book about her life story, and is serving as a community leader and motivational speaker in the Southeast region.

Ms. Webb currently resides in Hendersonville, Tennessee, with her three American Cocker Spaniels – Clifton, Cramer, and Chloe.