Andrew McGregor has an eclectic background in the not-for-profit and social enterprise worlds drawing from his expertise as a filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxing champion, entrepreneur, frequent TEDx speaker, mentor, Highlands games athlete, photojournalist, Grammy nominated bagpiper, magician, Curator of MindshareLA, and a founder of The Tiziano Project. He has started multiple companies, organizations, and charities. He was named one of ‘LA’s 40 Most Interesting People’ by LA Weekly, was part of a team that won the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism, won the ‘Foreigner’ division of an Independence Day Chess Tournament in Kazakhstan, he was featured in the Sports Section of the ‘NY Times’, and he has even received a Certificate of Appreciation from LA’s City Council!
COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS FOUNDED OR CO-FOUNDED
EDUCATION, DEGREES & CERTIFICATIONS
2019 AI Fundamentals Bootcamp, Los Angeles
2019 Intensive French language acquisition, Los Angeles
2018 Completed Python Programming Course
2018 Intensive Armenian language acquisition, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 Completed Introduction to Synthetic Biology course, The Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Intensive Kazakh language acquisition, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2009 MA for screenplay writing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Intensive Kinyarwanda language acquisition, Kigali, Rwanda
2007 AKE Surviving Hostile Regions Course, Banning Mills, GA
2005 Intensive Japanese language acquisition, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Intensive Spanish language acquisition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 Charles University, Intensive Czech language acquisition, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 Mandarin Chinese language and culture acquisition, Beijng, China
2002 BA, Philosophy with a Minor in Italian, Connecticut College, New London, CT
PRESS
LA Weekly – “Andrew Mcgregor: from Journalism to Chessboxing”
NY Times – “In This Sport, Beware of Left Hooks, Jabs and Castling”
CNN – “Consorting with Robots and Zombies”
Philip DeFranco– “How Giant African Rats Are Sniffing Out Landmines and Saving Lives”
Voyage LA – “Meet Andrew McGregor of MindshareLA and LA Chessboxing”
Forbes – “Start-Up For Good: How To Teach Journalism In A War Zone”
Design Observer Interview – “Helping People Help Their Narratives”
LA Times Video – Chessboxing Video
Carson Daly – “LA Chessboxing Club on ‘Last Call with Carson Daly’”
KTLA Morning News – “LA Chessboxing Club on KTLA Morning News”
Wu Tang News – “RZA Wins 2014 Chess Kings Invitational”
Innovation Crush with Chris Denson Podcast – “The Fighting Entrepreneur”
A.R.T Artists Real Talk Podcast – “The Kung-Fu Philosophy, Finding a Sensei for All Disciplines”
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
Named one of LA Weekly’s ’40 Most Interesting People‘
Featured in the Sports Section of the NY Times
Part of team that won SXSW Interactive award for activism
Part of team that won Best Medical and Healthcare VR Experience, Runner-up Best HTC Vive Experience, and was a Grand Prize Finalist for VR for StrokeRehabVR as part of the Creating Reality Hackathon
Won ‘Foreigner Division’ of national chess tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan