Career
Powell was expelled from Pocono Central Catholic School midyear in the 10th grade. He then went to Pocono Mountain West High School and dropped out during his senior year. After leaving school, Powell found work in the Pocono’s burgeoning vacation home market selling timeshares.
In this endeavor he met with some success.
During his tenure in the timeshare industry, Powell started two small businesses. The first was a satellite dish company that failed, and the second, in 1987, was a Philadelphia-based telemarketing company which he successfully sold in order to take a position at the Capri Waters Club in Melbourne, Australia.
After spending just over two years at Capri Waters his workers’ visa expired and Powell returned to the United States in 1990. In 1991, Powell founded Y-rent, a building and development company.
In 2001, six years after Powell left Y-rent, it was sued by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office and was the subject of civil suits.
In 1995, Powell started thatlook.com, the first company organized to provide mass-market access to cosmetic surgery procedures. The bursting of the technology bubble in 2000 undermined the company’s ability to raise capital, which ultimately diminished its potential. The shareholders pressured the board of directors to replace Powell as the chief executive officer of the company.
Ultimately, the board of directors complied and fired Powell, as well as his management team in August 2001.
Powell, as well as his prior management team, immediately founded looksforless.com to operate in the same business, but with a substantially different business model. Powell then started Rythmia Group, Incorporated., which includes Rythmia Life Advancement Center, SRL, Rythmia Holdings, SRL, and Rythmia Domain Company.
Powell"s other businesses include Powell Homes, Incorporated., a home purchase and renovation company currently selling over 100 houses per year in the greater Los Angeles area, and FilmEngine Productions of West Hollywood, California.
