About Greg
Greg has been a dreamer since childhood. He often looked at the world and couldn’t understand why we weren’t doing better as a species. At the age of 10 he decided he wanted to President of the United States thinking he was going to end war, poverty and inequality. At 16 he ran for Governor at Boys State, studied politics at UC Davis and debate at Harvard. The next year he made American history as one of five committee chairs from one hundred Convention II delegates as only the second group in US history, other than Congress, to debate on the floor of the House of Representatives. During his first year at the University of Southern California he started what would become the largest student political organization to that point in USC’s history. He worked extensively for a presidential candidate and became disillusioned with the political process which he felt was more about power and money than solving problems.
His MA is in English/Creative Writing with an emphasis in Playwriting. He has written/directed an indie feature, an animation/live-action TV pilot and a variety of other smaller media projects. He’s the author of various works, some published, some not, including two novels, various scripts for film, TV and theater, songs, poetry and articles. He has traveled the world visiting over 40 countries and lived for extended period in several vastly different cultures which is key to his view that we Homo Sapiens have much more in common than our differences.
Over the past 25 years he has dreamed of creating a platform to bring young people of the world together for cooperative and collaborative experiences convinced this is the way to break down the barriers of the past and create a peaceful and fair world. His project Zarbul aims to bring K-12 education into a 3D game universe, on 2D screens, to make learning fun and empowering.
His revolutionary ideas about education were solidified when his daughter started Unschooling at the age of twelve and he extensively studied alternative forms of education. He has taught at a two-year college and a variety of workshops around the world. He has performed extensively as a clown for kids battling cancer and is featured in the documentary film “The Anatomy of Laughter.”
In January 2022 Greg was honored by the Prime Minister of India as part of the 75th Republic Day for his “…work in visual media and using it to create a better world…” He is a TEDx speaker and featured SME for IBM’s Project Management course on Coursera. He’s been a Senior PM and serial Entrepreneur having worked in media, software dev, HR, back office, fintech and more.