Sandi Gardiner



Sandi Gardiner is one of the co-founders of Cloud Imperium Games and the Vice President of Marketing in CIG Los Angeles. She previously was a host on Around the Verse.

She plays the character of Pusher in the game.

Work at CIG
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.

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 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.