Co-Founder & General Partner at Pure Imagination Brands
Co-Founder and CEO of Sugarfina (2012-2019)

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      Pure Imagination Brands
  

Sugarfina is a luxury candy boutique featuring 100+ curated gourmet sweets from artisan candymakers around the world. Named "Best New Candy Shop" by Food & Wine, Sugarfina offers a unique range of candies that can't be found anywhere else in the United States. Loved by celebrities and tastemakers, Sugarfina candies are beautifully packaged and presented, perfect for gift giving or treating yourself.
    
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      Sugarfina, Inc.
  


      Seismic Games
  

Founded in 2009, Payoff (www.payoff.com) is a technology-enabled, consumer-focused financial services company. Payoff builds transparent and empowering financial products with the customer’s best interest in mind. Payoff is backed by top tier venture capital firms and some of the most prominent individuals in financial services.


One of the largest and most successful independent developers in the world.  Over the course of more than a decade, Pandemic created some of the biggest original brands in the industry, including Star Wars: Battlefront, Mercenaries, Destroy All Humans and Full Spectrum Warrior, selling more than 25 million games worldwide.  In 2005 Pandemic partnered up with BioWare, a leading developer of Role Playing Games, and then in 2007 was acquired by Electronic Arts for a record $860 million.
    
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Pandemic Studios

Activision is a worldwide online, PC, console, handheld and mobile game publisher with leading market positions across every major category of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment software industry.  While at Activision, I served as the Producer on the 1995 mega-hit Mechwarrior 2, Director of the RTS favorite Dark Reign in 1997 and later as Director of Production for the Strategy Division of Activision's internal studio.
    
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Activision

Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world.

With a faculty of more than 235 renowned professors, Wharton has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year 18,000 professionals from around the world advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs. More than 99,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day.

The Wharton School

Pomona College, one of the nation's premier liberal arts colleges, is known for its small classes and opportunities for hands on research, community service and leadership. Pomona is the founding member of the prestigious Claremont Colleges located in Southern California.

Co-Founder & General Partner at Pure Imagination Brands

Pure Imagination Brands

Co-Founder & General Partner

Sugarfina, Inc.

Co-Founder & CEO

Seismic Games

Board Member

Payoff.com

Board Member

Pandemic Studios

Co-Founder and President

Activision

Director of Production

The Wharton School

Multinational Management, Entrepreneurialism

MBA

Pomona College

International Relations

BA

Crossroads