Bio
Chris Valletta is an American marketing executive best known for being a contestant on the fourth season of the reality television competition The Apprentice, in 2005.
Chris is a former NFL player for the New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He earned a B.S. in speech communications and rhetoric with a minor in political science from Texas A&M University, where he was an All-Conference Offensive Lineman and a four-year letterman.
He works in advertising sales as an executive at KRLD News Radio 1080-AM in Dallas, Texas, where he was recently named "salesperson of the year," for generating over $1,500,000 in new revenue and breaking the company's 79-year record for first year sales.
During this time, he started a company called Big Tree Investments LLC., a transactional real estate company that uses land trusts to acquire and wholesale properties.
In 2004, Chris and his wife Lacie founded C&L, Inc., which operates their 100-acre tree farm in East Texas, where they raise and harvest pine trees for long-term investment growth.
He and his wife enjoy traveling and spending time on their ranch.