Meet the Team

Bridget Hickey is a seasoned communications strategist with international experience helping ambitious founders and frontier-tech startups turn complex ideas into clear, compelling brands.

She was the first communications hire at high-growth startups including Andrew Ng’s AI venture studio, Mercury, and OnePlus. Working directly with high-profile CEOs, she’s built personal brands that grew to hundreds of thousands of followers, created newsletters that reached millions of readers, and secured coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and other top-tier outlets—including recognition on TIME’s Best Inventions list.

Bridget has worked in fintech, insurtech, deep enterprise AI, and consumer hardware, helping teams translate technical breakthroughs into market-ready stories across media, social, newsletters, and blogs. She began her career in China and continues to work with global teams building brands that cross borders.

Faiz (“Fez”) Mandviwalla is an experienced PR & media strategist, specializing in translating advanced tech topics into widely-relevant stories. He excels at working directly with leaders at high tech companies to translate their work and ideas into meaningful coverage.

He’s worked with OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, IonQ, Amazon, DARPA and more to place in-depth articles at every major publication. He’s also led media training for Ilya Sutskever, Marc Raibert, retired four-star General Tony Thomas and many others across the space to improve their storytelling ability, whether it’s a live TV segment, a front-page feature, or an internal memo to align the team.