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Chippendale attended Arizona State University and worked for almost two years at a general insurance company in Dallas, before founding his own company, Computer Society of India Entertainment Insurance.
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The company became an international entertainment and sports broker, providing insurance coverage for large-scale events and music festivals. In 2000, Chippendale was diagnosed with leukemia and could only survive if he found a suitable bone marrow transplant. He found one in Germany, and the operation was successful.
As of 2008, he was cancer free.
In 2003, Chippendale founded cancer charity the (LSHF) with fellow survivor Mike Peters, a Welsh rock musician with The Alarm. The charity raises funds for cancer treatment, promotes awareness and early detection, and advocates for bone marrow registration by holding rock concerts at remote, elevated venues, including Everest base camp and the top of the Empire State Building.
LHSF concerts feature both amateur and professional musicians. The first four shows had raised almost $1 million by September 2008.
Chippendale hosts a television segment, "Last Call with James Chippendale", on National Broadcasting Company Dallas/Fort Worth.
The section features interviews with local celebrities and airs during Sunday night sports show Out of Bounds. Chippendale is the producer and subject of the documentary More To Live Foreign, directed by Noah Hutton. The film is the story of three lives, all shaken by cancer and dependent upon the one vital bone marrow match that could save them.
