Sandi Gardiner

Sandi Gardiner in ATV on 2018-06-21

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, to 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 thorough the end of the crowdfunding 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, 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.

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 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 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

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.

Quotes

"Star Citizen couldn't have happened without Sandi's tireless dedication" -Ben Lesnick

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 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 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.

See also

• Beck Russum
• Nayara Fell