Chito Peppler

Chito recently retired from the U.S. Navy. He joined the Navy at age 17 from a small town in southeast Georgia. After commissioning, Chito served as a Fire Control Officer and Navigator aboard a destroyer along the East coast and eventually as a public affairs officer (PAO) for the last ten years of his career. His most important tours were as the Public Affairs Officer for the USS JOHN C. STENNIS battle group, Office of Secretary of Defense, US European Command and the PAO for the Surgeon General of the Navy. Chito has been deployed to the Middle East four times and has served in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Chito and his family immigrated to the US when he was 12-years old. Starting at age four, Chito lived onboard a 40-foot sailboat for five years traveling extensively throughout Southeast Asia to countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. This is Chito’s 3rd year at George Washington University MBA school. Earlier this year, Chito founded a social media startup company that aggregates food reviews called RUNIN Out.