Odyssey Company Information

The Odyssey Company is the long-held dream of dedicated environmentalist, outdoorsman, wilderness medical doctor, and community activist Chris Moore.

A native of the Southeast Tennessee, Dr. Moore has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Tennessee since 1999. He is currently a member of the Tennessee State Conservation Board and has served locally on the Board of Trustees for the Tennessee River Gorge Trust, the Chattanooga Nature Center, and as an Advisor for the Lula Lake Land Trust. Additionally, Dr. Moore served on the Board of Directors of the national Wilderness Medical Society.

Before becoming a physician, Dr. Moore owned and operated a summer camp and taught at the famed Baylor School in Chattanooga, where he founded the nationally-recognized Walkabout Program. (These influences are apparent in the overall feel of Long Branch, which has preserved fully three times the amount of land it has developed, endeavoring to disturb as little of the latter as possible.)

Because of his abiding interest in the Chattanooga community and the area’s plentiful outdoor amenities, Dr. Moore founded Outdoor Chattanooga, a nonprofit entity that is now owned and operated by the City of Chattanooga.

(Importantly, one of Chattanooga’s emerging amenities is the Cloudland Connector Trail that will be part of the region’s existing trail network and that already wends its way through a portion of Long Branch’s preserved area. Property owners will therefore have this wonderful amenity right at their doorstep for walking, jogging, riding, and biking.)

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Steve O’Neil, has fifteen years of experience serving in a range of capacities with environmental-related organizations including executive management, advisor, corporate governance, and founding entrepreneur.

Besides being a Principal at Odyssey Consulting, Steve currently owns and operates Applied Energy Conservation Systems, a commercial and industrial energy-savings consulting firm.  He is owner of the St. Elmo Building, a 14 unit commercial complex in the heart of historic St. Elmo, Tennessee.  He is also an advisor with Watershed Capital, an investment and advisory group focused on companies committed to financial, environmental and social returns.

He has served as Executive Director of the Chattanooga Nature Center, Executive Director of SouthWings and SE Regional Director of Center for the Restoration of Waters @ Ocean Arks International.

Steve holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters in Environmental Science from University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.

Steve is an avid-outdoorsman, active musician, licensed pilot and has held Board positions with the Chattanooga Nature Center, the Chattanooga Climate Action Planning Executive Committee, and the Dogwood Alliance in North Carolina (where he was past Chair).

Steve currently lives on Lookout Mountain with his wife Michelle and three boys, Parker, Edward and Lyles.

DeDe DuBose has indulged her passion for land and unique buildings since 1996 when she bought her first large tract of land. Knowing that what is good for the land is good for the people living on it, she has focused on sustainable design, conservation development, and urban revitalization projects.  She owns, rents, and manages seven commercial and residential properties including joint ownership in The St. Elmo Building in the heart of historic St Elmo Tennessee.  She is working on a conservation development project on the Cumberland Plateau called Sewanee Close: www.sewaneeclose.com.

DeDe is currently on the boards of The Trust for Public Land, The Woman’s Fund of Chattanooga, and is on advisory councils for The Land Trust of Tennessee, The Bright School, and Mainx24.

DeDe’s undergraduate degree is from Sewanee, The University of the South, and she holds and MBA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  She lives in the Southside District of Chattanooga with her four children.  After family and real estate, yoga, trail running, stand up paddle-boarding, and extensive travel are among DeDe’s  passions.