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Sandi Gardiner, also known as Sandi Roberts, is one of the co-founders of Cloud Imperium Games and a board member. Key sections include Work at CIG, Other Works, and Quotes.
Sandi Gardiner, also known as Sandi Roberts, is one of the co-founders of Cloud Imperium Games and a board member.
She plays the character of Pusher in Star Citizen.
Work at CIG
She heard Chris Roberts idea of creating Star Citizen, then named Space Trader, back in 2009. Her initial role was to just invest financially and help on the consulting side
As they interviewed people for marketing roles she decided that she would rather just do it herself, Her plan was to take CIG thorough the end of the crowdfunding campaign and into the new year before going back to acting.
She became the Vice President of Marketing at CIG Los Angeles. She was initially helping with the videos, organising, getting her actor friends to help with stretch goals videos and more, spending time on the Kickstarter forums.
She started the Customer Service alone. One thanksgiving she told Ben Lesnick that he could give her personal email which led to her receiving 2500 emails on thanksgiving day. During Gamescom while overwhelmed with customer service tickets she spent the week end doing 1200 tickets causing the customer service in Manchester to panic when they came online thinking Zendesk was broken and that all the tickets had been wiped out.
She dealt with hardware partners, overseeing events such as CitizenCon and PAX East, or The Next Great Starship which she created and produced. She was overseeing the merchandising mostly from the designing aspect. She was a host on Around the Verse.
After 7 years she found someone she deemed fit to take on her role. She officially stepped back in May 2019 but remains on the board of directors.
Other Works
She was born in Adelaide, Australia, She had a swimwear label called Fish Designs.
She worked as assistant director at Fox Studios in Australia.
While doing her Master in Business and Marketing she interned at Ascendant Pictures in 2003 where she wrote coverage on scripts that came in and did various tasks, she was on set for Lucky Number 7, Lord of War and Ask the Dust. She helped on the producing side. It is at Ascendant Pictures that she met Chris Roberts and that they became friends.
Quotes
"Star Citizen couldn't have happened without Sandi's tireless dedication" -Ben Lesnick
Trivia
- She loves to read books.
- She has a degree in Marine Biology.
- She plays piano.
- She practices mixed martial arts and yoga.
- She likes to drive sports cars.
- She plays regularly in a Theater troupe.
- She likes Imagine Dragons, Queen and INXS.
- She likes to play Star Citizen as a pirate or relax exploring.
- Her favorite ship is the Cutlass Black.
- She used to play a lot of games, especially Doom.
- Her favorite place in Star Citizen is Goss with its binary stars and it's seaside resorts.
- After Star Citizen she would like to create her own shoe brand and to make a movie.
- She learned French at Alliance Francaise in Australia during her childhood, then, in Los Angeles. Exclu ! Découvrez un nouveau personnage au casting de Squadron 42, World of gaming, YouTube, 14 Nov 2018
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