Meet the Team!


Meet our cheerful crew o’ geeks, designers, toy fans and friendly weirdos.

Anthony Watts

Designer

Born in the 1900s, Anthony spent most of his time playing D&D and dismembering He-Man toys on his bedroom floor. Later he got good at drawing dragons, painting miniatures, doodling in class, and playing with toy soldiers. Now 40+ years later, nothing has changed.

  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Official" Role: Designer
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Code Name(s): TBD
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Super Powers: Cold Resistance, +1 Charisma
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Vulnerabilities: Miniatures, Paint, Kitties, Cheap Coffee, Dad Jokes, Vespas
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Past Toys: Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, Lego, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, dirt, sticks, rocks
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Junk Foods: White Cheddar Smartfood, Doritos, Rosebuds, Nachos, 70s inspired desserts, leftovers
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Quotes: "No problem"; "Word"; "I'll figure it out"
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Previous Jobs: Popcorn Maker, Art Gallery Attendant, Weed Killer
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Education": Ontario College of Art, YouTube, People Smarter than Me
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Social Media: If you are nice you can friend me on Facebook

Kris Schantz

Co-Founder & Catalyst

Kris was born and raised in Calgary, and as he grew up, he never grew out of his toys. Over the years Kris played trumpet, piano and drums... and even went to band camp. Several times. He enjoys hiking, except when he gets marooned on mountain peaks overnight. A learner and a sharer, Kris is intrigued by pretty much everything. He's shared his love for toy design and toy making on panels at San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Con. And beyond his own fun adventures in creative entrepreneurship, Kris enjoys supporting passionate young entrepreneurs.

  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Official" Role: Co-Founder & Catalyst
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Code Name(s): Mr. Happy Worker, Perfectionist-in-Chief, Bonne Chance/Schantz
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Super Powers: Constant curiosity; Is Always Right; Bad pun making; Super tasks juggler; Crazy ideas generator; Problem zapper; Just-in-time timeliness; Idealistic optimism; Honorary Asian
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Vulnerabilities: Junk food, Bad movies, Video gaming addiction, Pizza, Random acts of kindness
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Past Toys: Lego, He-Man, G.I. Joe, various board games, Atari, Apple ][, NES, PCs
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Junk Foods: Gummi bears, gummi worms, gummi coke bottles, gummi fish, gummi berries, chocolate bars (all), jalapeno chips, jello, homemade chocolate chip cookies, ice cream floats, chocolate cake, and, well, you get the picture
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Quotes: "If it's easy to do, it's not worth doing"; "You can do it!"; "That's not a problem."
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Previous Jobs: Web product manager, mad science guy (chemistry research assistant), pizza dough maker, farm hand, paperboy, lemonade stand proprietor
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Education": B. Sc. in Biochemistry, McGill University
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Social Media: LinkedIn Twitter

Shirley Yee

Co-Founder & Strategist

Shirley grew up in a small town in Northern Ontario, and her formative years were fairly typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. Besides creating toys she also paints and writes. Some of it's actually good. (Note: but she didn't write this!)

  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Official" Role: Co-Founder & Strategist
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Code Name(s): Master of Elective Operations, Ms. Happy Worker, SuperMommy
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Super Powers: Able to make anything & everything better; Is Never Wrong; Internet surfing record holder; Master case packer; Child wrangler
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Vulnerabilities: Caffeine and sugar, Sleep, Want it all attitude
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Past Toys: Etch a Sketch, Barbie-look-alikes, Smurfs, Lego
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Junk Foods: Slurpees, potato chips, cheesecake, swedish berries, homemade desserts, and any junk food that Kris has bought for himself
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Quotes: "What if we do it this way?"; "Where's the magic 8-ball?"; "I'm going to Google that."
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Previous Jobs: Web developer, spud researcher (potato geneticist), Ice cream server at Denise's Dairy Delights
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Education": B. Sc. in Biology, McGill University
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Social Media: LinkedIn

Stephen Burling

Director, Partner Happiness and Development

Stephen grew up in many fantastic worlds.... his formative years were spent in the mystical kingdoms of Eternia and Etheria. He went on to fight crime with mutant ninja turtles and gargoyles, hung out with misunderstood mutants born with incredible powers, joined forces with ordinary citizens utilizing gadgets to take on injustice, and went on all sorts of high flying adventures with ducks in Calisota and a trio of trouble making chipmunks. Everything was magical and everything was possible, and these worlds live on through his passion for movies, TV, comics and video games. He enjoys food-related nourishment - especially things with cheese, salt, all the sauce, or sushi. Most of all, Stephen loves hanging out with friends and family, and laughing and laughing... and more laughing.

  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Official" Role: Director, Partner Happiness and Development
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Code Name(s): High Level, Fred (don't ask)
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Super Powers: Dog whisperer, euchre master, shuffleboard shark, office decorating, interpersonal, time management, solutionizer, making funny (probably annoying) sounds when reading e-mails, zoning people out (and then getting scared when someone gets his attention), creating happiness
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Vulnerabilities: Video games, comics, loot and collectibles, anything deep fried, soft things, shiny things, dogs, an excel challenge
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Past Toys: Toybiz marvel legends, ghostbusters/tmnt/he-man action figures, mighty max, pogs, micro machines, troll dolls, etch a sketch, lite-brite
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Junk Foods: Cheez-its, cheesies, cheetos, anything cheesy, oatmeal peanut butter pirate cookies, chips, dark chocolate, coffee Ice cream
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Quotes: "It don't matter"; "Can we look at this high level"; "Wait a minute..."; "You royal boob!"
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Previous Jobs: McDonald's burger flipper, security guard payroll helper, art store crafty things seller, book recommender, EB Games fanboy, felt a touch of the dark side at Hot Topic, served fancy people fancy foods at fancy functions, experienced corporate culture at Sears and Joe Fresh head offices, procured loot and collectibles and spread geek happiness via Nerd Block
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Education": Dabbled in graphic design and business; Fashion Business Industry at George Brown
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Social Media: LinkedIn

Raven Hood

Sculptor & Modeler

Raven has over 20 years of experience as a sculptor in the model kit, collectible and toy industries with occasional adventures in computer animation. He began as tow-headed little boy playing with robots and spaceships while he watched the last missions to the moon on TV. Growing up in the shadow of his father, a commercial artist with Walt Disney, Hasbro and NASA, lead him into the family business doing a bit of everything on the film Holly Boy. While suffering the pains brought on by biz school Raven learned the art of Computer Graphics and 3D Animation. But lacking the funding for a Cray XMP his dreams went back to the boyhood hobby of model making and character sculpture. Finally finding recognition from his heros in the comic book and film industries lead to work on the Disney film Dinosaur. Raven continues to create, sculpt, art direct, and sometimes consult on properties based on the characters of Jim Henson, Monty Python, Toho (Godzilla), and all sorts of Happy Worker toys(!).

  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Official" Role: Sculptor & Modeler
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Code Name(s): The Raven Hood, Nevar Moore, Mold and Cast Monkey, Dark Thursday
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Super Powers: The ability to see what is about to happen much to late to do anything about it!
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Vulnerabilities: Synthesizers, Sculpting Tools, Plug-ins and other accessories. 
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Past Toys: Confessor, Rygel the XVI, Dr. Teeth, Kermit, Minister of Silly Walks, MoneyMan
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Junk Foods: Rice Cakes (mmmm!), Halvah, and Gluten Free Waffles
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Quotes: “Never more”, “Hello World”, “I got a bad feeling about this”, “That’s no moon…  Wait that wasn’t me!”
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Previous Jobs: Production Assistant, Model Designer, Mold Smith, Vice-President, Sculptor, Instructor, Table Monitor
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Education": Graph Arts Apprentice, A.S.M.S., B. A. B. A., and Y.O.U.T.U.B.E.

Celine Cimon

Painter & Color Counselor

Celine was born among a trolley of other kids in Ste-Foy, a town next to Quebec City. As a young girl she was fascinated by colors and shapes and soon started to make her own toys. When she was 12, Celine moved to a farm in the country which broadened her field of experimentation! She also learned to play violin, guitar and harmonica. When she turned 24 Celine decided to be a visual artist, sculptor & painter and moved to Toronto. While learning English she worked in film special effects & model making. Always focusing on her magic hands, besides painting and sculpting she’s learned Shiatsu, and after much training and practice she has also become a medium.

  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Official" Role: Painter & Color Counselor
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Code Name(s): Queen of Color, Methylene & Styrene; Merry Medium
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Super Powers: Self-teacher, Jill of all trades, Primal screamer during deadlines, Just-do-it kind of girl, Fast chocolate eater
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Vulnerabilities: Chocolate (the expensive kinds), Virginia chocolate bar (sadly no longer available & Celine’s still in mourning), chocolate with cherries inside
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Past Toys: Paint by numbers (the more intricate, the better!); hot wheels; her father’s tools; darts in the barn; transformed custom bike
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Junk Foods: Green and black caramel chocolate, chocolate with nuts, lentil chips, fries, donuts
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Quotes: “Celine, like Celine Dion… but I’m a little fatter and I don't sing”; "I don't believe it!"; "That's for sure!"
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Previous Jobs: model maker, special effects artist, shiatsu practitioner, farm girl, typographer
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸"Education": CEGEP in Esthetique de Presentation
  • 极速赛车75秒官网🔸Social Media: LinkedIn

And a Big Thanks to Our Advisors, Alumni & Supporters...

极速赛车75秒官网🔸It Takes a Community to Raise a Creative Company.

Happy Worker is the sum of many wonderful souls. We simply wouldn’t exist, let alone be who we are today, without the collective ideas, passion, talents, hard work, and generosity of time and spirit of all those who’ve collaborated or helped us on our way.
 

极速赛车75秒官网🔸Alumni, Contributors, Advisors + Past Interns
Carter Lee, Johnny Canuck
Julia Babici, Babs
Bliss Man, B
Adam Dunn
Derek Dresser
Bryan Aguilera - Tabasco Cat
Anna Birjevaia - Anna Nirvana-Banana
Christelle Broux - Crafty Christelle
Connie Choi – Go Woon
Stefan Erkeling - The New German
Aliza Gold-Ruvolo - Meow Meow-liza
Jake Grundy - Big Head
Chris Johnson - The Toy Man
Gregory Klotz - Froggy Panda
Scott Koza - Sketchbook Scott
Sabrina Leung - Pikablech
Halley Louie - Mr. Roboto
Robin Merry - Bubs(y)
Karla Ordorica
Deena Pagliarello - Deena Colada
Heidi Peckover - Happy Heidi
Ashley Ramnarain - Shlee
Marcelo Vieira - Psycho Coder
Evan Vincent - Kid Vincent
Greg Wong - The Original Greg
Stephanie Young - Steph-the-Sneak
Roxanne Ziman - Rockin' Roxanne
Rod Thacker
Jason Herod

极速赛车75秒官网🔸Supporters, Artists, Collaborators, Family + Friends
We started creating a giant list of supporters and talented collaborators, along with our family and friends – everyone who’s helped in ways big and small. Then realized there were so many people it was impossible.
So for now a cheerful collective shout out to everyone who’s lent us a hand or an ear along the way – a very big n’ happy THANK YOU!

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