Biography

Clyde C. Harris, the CFO of NuFangled TV, is a creative visionary whose passion for storytelling ignites innovation at every turn. An accomplished Actor, Writer, and Producer, Clyde brings a rare blend of artistic flair and financial acumen to the table, honed through years as a Sales and Marketing specialist. Clyde is a proven business builder who treats every venture like a high-stakes investment-because for him, profitability and impact are the ultimate dance partners. Clyde scaled national dance franchises into global powerhouses, grew client revenues by 35% through easily replicable processes, and now channels that same strategic firepower into solving film finance’s toughest puzzles. While in Tennessee, Clyde became one of America’s top dance-studio sales and operations leaders at National Dance Clubs. Later in New York, he was architecting the expansion system that exploded Dance With Me USA (founded by Dancing With The Stars alums Maksim & Valentin Chmerkovskiy) from 2 locations to 17+ worldwide-a masterclass in scalable systems, sales training, and revenue engineering. Pioneering the Move That’s Shaking TikTok and DWTS! Returning to Tennessee, Clyde teamed up with his powerhouse partner Summer Black Elkin (and husband David Elkin) to craft a gravity-defying leg lift that’s now exploding as the #DWTSLegLiftChallenge-racking up 11M+ TikTok views and inspiring celebs, couples, and even GMA anchors to drop and lift! This isn’t just dance-it’s a cultural phenomenon, echoing the iconic lifts of Dirty Dancing but with modern edge. Clyde and Summer created it first during their jaw-dropping 2017 performance at the British Exhibition Championships. To promote the 2022 Nashville Dance Congress, they also performed the move on NBC. That same entrepreneurial DNA now powers NuFangled TV: . With Penny Styles, Clyde produced the multi-award winning short The Perfect Love . Clyde and Penny turned set downtime into a crash-course MBA in production finance. . Designing a Film fund strategy leveraging corporate tax incentives to underwrite indie productions. "Dance taught me rhythm; business taught me results. At NuFangled, we sync both to fund stories that matter." - Clyde C. Harris
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