Creative Connect: Maureen Fan

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM until 1:30 PMCentral Daylight Time UTC -05:00

Frances Searle, 3-417
2240 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL 60201
United States

Please join the MSLCE Program for our Spring Quarter Creative Connect, with Baobab Studios Co-Founder + CEO, Maureen Fan! This event is free and open to the public; lunch will be provided for all attendees.

Our Creative Connect speaker series brings impactful leaders from creative industries to share their career journeys and insights with the MSLCE program and the Northwestern community in intimate, conversational settings.

Maureen Fan is the CEO, Co-Founder of Baobab Studios, the ten-time Emmy Award winning animation company that blends storytelling with cutting edge tech (mixed reality, metaverse, AI) to build franchisable family IP and interactive worlds. Named Fast Company’s 2018 Most Innovative Company, Baobab’s universes are being turned into films (Disney), series on premium streamers (e.g, Disney+, HBO Max), books (Penguin Random House, MacMillan) and games (Roblox, web3, Oculus).

Fan has over 2 decades of creating, launching, and scaling mass market global digital products in e-commerce, gaming, social network and media industries in the US and internationally at startups and Fortune 500 companies. A product and strategy leader, she helped to birth the social casual games revolution as Zynga’s VP of Games, reporting directly to the CEO and overseeing 6 studios including the original FARMVILLE franchise. Her products have earned her recognition as one of ‘The Most Creative People of the Year’ by Ad Age and Top 100 Influential Asian by A100.