Adrienne Haik

Founder, Chief Operations Officer

Bridging the cultural traditions of Lebanon, New Orleans, and Texas, Adrienne Haik, known in Second Life as Adri Saarinen, is no stranger to the realities of our globalized, wired world. With deep roots in text-based virtual worlds and fandom subcultures, she likes to say that she “grew up on the Internet.”

As a technologist and communication expert, Adri has established an impressive reputation. Her activities have been profiled in several off-line and on-line publications. She is a seasoned community manager who has organized activities in a variety of 2D and 3D online spaces, and her work as a project director has seen the successful launch of several successful virtual worlds sites and communities.

Adrienne is an active member of the Women Metavers Developers, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, the Independent Game Developers Association, Second Life Business Communicators, and the Second Life Foundation for Rich Content.