Dee DiCarlo

Dorothy “Dee” DiCarlo is a former Illinois Restaurant Association President who earned her Business Degree while attending Chicago's Loyola University. After completing her Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications at Roosevelt University, DiCarlo began her career with a Marketing focus in the Hospitality Community.

She founded Mama Mia! Pasta. This restaurant concept was propelled to a national scale on the wings of her PR campaigns and marketing efforts. She has worked with clients such as NBC, WMAQ, Chicago Sun Times, Chrysler Corp., Tribune Company during her tenure as President of Eventful Marketing, a profit-driven marketing effort. Dee is working with ESPN as the Director of Marketing. She is a branding specialist who is responsible for creating dynamic marketing programs to build the ESPN brand. Dee brings tremendous marketing and brand building savvy to the Creative Hospitality Associates team. Her innovative approach to communicating through strategic marketing gives clients the ability to ducate prospective new business and maximize mind-share and exposure