About
A collaborative effort to expose the truth about the troubled teen industry through storytelling, research, and advocacy.
Subject & Co-Creator
He’s southpaw with a double simian crease. His vedic astrologer charted him a Suwāti, incredible sweet and easy-going creatures that are uncomfortable with hierarchy and prize movement. He escaped from the notorious Provo Canyon School – twice.
After graduating with Saratoga High School’s Tribe of ’85, Gow wandered Europe, only his backpack…and a 9-piece drum set.
He settled in Lugano, Switzerland where he studied French and Italian at Franklin College. When the Berlin Wall fell, his gypsy soul was blown east by the Winds of Change. As Eastern Europe stirred from 50 years of communism, Gow fell into the deep slumber of a rock and roll fantasy from which he awoke, five years later, 500 meters beneath the earth’s crust inside the EONESCO Weilcka salt mine, playing drums Yaro, Poland’s first rapper during a telecast of Poland’s Top of the Pops.
Gow returned to California, where during brief stint at the San Francisco Global Trade Council, he organized a fact-finding mission to Havana, Cuba for the Bay Area’s Fortune 500 cognoscenti. Unable to produce a junket with Castro, he substituted a visit to Havana’s music conservatory where Cuba’s #2 man, Alceron spent two hours insulting the delegation before a brusque exit to attend to the festering Elian Crisis. Upon landing at SFO, Gow was greeted with a hot air blast to the face – the DotCom bubble had burst.
Despite a measly 540 GMAT score, Geoffrey earned a finance MBA from San Diego State University. He has since adopted his 9-5 alter-ego of Geoff, a venture finance entrepreneur, rallying Silicon Valley tech bros to Fata Morgana of consumer genomics and geospatial reasoning.
His French? Pat-on-the-tẽte. His Italian? Uno trombone arrugginito. His Polish? Occasionally better than that of Warsaw’s Ukrainian uber drivers.
In addition to writing stories, Gow plays drums in Pictures of You, Los Angeles’ tribute to The Cure. Geoffrey lives in the Hollywood Hills with his snare and two tom-toms.
