ENTREPRENEUR

Stephanie’s insatiable entrepreneurial spirit and passion for advancing the immersive industry through education, collaboration, and development has led her to co-found multiple companies. She co-founded Odeon Theatrical, a software platform and content studio JV with the Shubert Organization and Hexagram creating AR for storytellers. During the pandemic she co-founded the 5th Wall Forum, a nonprofit accelerator for live performance XR professionals around the world, and the World Experience Organization, an international nonprofit on a mission to connect and provoke the pioneers of the Experience Economy.

She founded her first company, a game development company, as a student at Carnegie Mellon University, which was later sold, and she joined an Intel Capital Company start-up as the Director of Business Development. While in San Francisco, she founded a small nonprofit that brought together visual artists and art executives to bridge the gap between creation and funding. Each of her film and theater productions has required separate legal status, funding sources, and revenue distribution, which she helmed.

With the hands-on knowledge she has gained from these endeavors, Stephanie continues consulting, developing and speaking on immersive content through Sunchaser Entertainment, a company she founded to produce and expand story-driven virtual and live immersive experiences and software.