R.T.E Dixon I

Rodney has been called a vault of knowledge, tenacious with the extraordinary ability to create opportunity. Despite the pain of failure he has weathered the storm and now stands veering from experience with excitement and exceptional expectancy, as he moves from yesterdays dream to today’s vision and tomorrows reality.

From a porter to a Chairman, from failure to success, his life is non-fiction and his experience priceless to those he works with. Innovations that translate to profit machines are the forte of Rodney’s life, co-creator of 5 patents in beverage designs as well as co-developer of 11 water beverage flavors with the leading United States flavor developer. It was those same innovative thought processes that changed the entire church community. In 1998 the Next Level Innovations division that Rodney formed started converting catalogs of sermons from cassette to CD, for Pastors and Bishops all over the world. Ironic enough in 1995 Rodney told Donnell Brown a music/tech engineer to go in business and do CD Sermons, he would later hire Brown to run that new division. The innovative change of persuading clergy to convert to CD created a new revenue stream for ministries, and birthed a multi-million dollar Industry. Rodney would go on to say “it was a no brainier business, because in 1995, 97% of blank cassette sales were to ministries, someone needed to show the establishment where the world was going and to get on board and profit from it”.

Displaying intelligence and ingenuity from an early age, of eight, he sent away for information on buying VHS tapes from Hong Kong to sell in America. In 1980 he invented a dog food container which he was not able to patent due to cost, but years later he would have 5 (International and US) Patents to his credit.

His beginnings didn’t start in the board room, but the sidewalks of south side of Chicago in the community known as Roseland, selling every thing from All Occasion Cards to Pen Lighter Pens and the infamous Key O Matic, at the age 13 he had 50 regular customers who bought from him. While in college he landed a Job as a sales rep for Christie Lodge and Associates (*Owned in part by US Homes at the time) hired by a hard nose Irish man named Patrick Eaton and he quickly advanced through the resort industry ranks and became coordinator of sales, after winning the approval of Walter Kosch the Chairman of ARI.........