Brianne Garcia

Graduate of CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism, where I took an Entrepreneurial Journalism course and business lit my mind on fire. Completed the Tow Knight Foundation's incubator program in May 2012, and was one of the two first-ever recipients of a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism. Pitched to panel of investors and received $20k chunk in seed funding, which I used to recruit a team of three, and build an alpha product for an e-commerce company.

Went on to build the Branded Content department for Complex Media, then joined angel investor William Lohse to run the Pivot Conference, where I picked up some serious sales chops, and was promoted to President 8 months in.

Books = great. Curiosity = my spirit animal. Fascinated by business and how markets function. Free time spent adventuring...or in a corner with a book.