Dec 162010
38 Studio’s CEO Jennifer MacLean was invited to speak at the Monthly Providence Geeks meeting on Wednesday. Check it out!
PROVIDENCE – “I’ve always considered myself a geek, ever since I was … 7 years old with my Atari 2600 and really thick glasses; I was pretty much classic nerd,” said Jennifer MacLean, CEO of 38 Studios, to a packed crowd at AS220 during the monthly Providence Geeks meet-up on Wednesday.
During her speech to the local tech community, MacLean quickly broke the ice about the “infamous” $75 million loan guarantee deal from the R.I. Economic Development Corporation, saying that the company wanted to make sure that the move to Providence would make sense.
“And we didn’t have to look very far,” she said, noting that about 25 percent of the company’s art department are RISD graduates. “The quality of those students has been phenomenal. They go toe-to-toe with the best artists in the world. It was obvious that there was a huge local talent pool here that we could tap.”