Sandi Gardiner



Sandi Gardiner is one of the co-founders of Cloud Imperium Games and a board member.

She plays the character of Pusher in the game.

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 more on the consulting side

As they interviewed people for marketing roles she decided she would rather just do it herself, be the one responsible for the risk rather than leave it in the hands of others who seemed inadequate.

Her plan was to take CIG throught the end of the campaign and into the new year before going back to acting.

She became the Vice President of Marketing in CIG Los Angeles.

She was initially helping with the videos, organising, getting her actor friends to help with stretch goals videos and more, she was all the time on the kickstarter forums.

She started the Customer Service alone. One thanksgiving she told Ben Lesnick he could give her personal email and she received 2500 enails on thanksgiving day.

She deals with hardware partners, oversees events such as citizencon and PAX East, The Next Great Starship.

She oversees the merchandising mostly from the designing aspect.

Sandi Gardiner has the single most crowdfunded campaign in history. She is responsible for the way the game's vision is presented and pushed out to the fans.

She is responsible for the Concierge idea.

She previously was a host on Around the Verse.

She created and produced The Next Great Starship competition.

After 7 years she found someone who was fit to take on her role, thanks to the company growth and having examplified the expectations.

She officially stepped back in May 2019 but remains on the board of directors.

Other Works
In her early 20s she did a lot of hosting, including a travel show where they would go Scuba Diving all around the world and for MTV Asia Pacific.

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.

Trivia

 * Her favorite color is turquoise.
 * 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 it's binary stars and it's seaside resorts.
 * After Star Citizen she would like to create her own shoe brand and to make a movie.
 * "There's nobody in this company who cares as much about the fans as Sandi Gardiner" -Jared Huckaby
 * She once once answering customer service tickets while stuck in a plane on the tarmac, on her phone.
 * 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 all the tickets had been wiped out.
 * She learned French at Alliance Francaise in Australia during her childhood then in Los Angeles.
 * She was born in Adelaide, Australia.
 * She had a swimwear label called Fish Designs.