Girl Skateboards

Mike Carroll is a professional skateboarder from San Francisco who skated for H-Street and then joined the super team Plan B Skateboards. Mike is known for being an innovator of technical street skating in the early 90's.He is also known for skating at the EMB in San Francisco After the death of... Mike Ternasky, Carroll started Girl Skateboards with fellow Plan B rider Rick Howard. He was a long-time rider for Vans, but left the company soon after they released his pro model shoe and was picked up by DC Shoes, where they released a signature model shoe called the Cosmo. Not long afterwards he left DC along with Rick Howard and they started their own shoe company, Lakai.Carroll is said to have discovered the famous San Francisco skateboard landmark 3rd and Army. Carroll won Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year award in 1994. Carroll is a playable character in EA's video games "Skate. ", "Skate 2" and "Skate 3".
more

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the... co-writer/director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He is well known also for his music video collaborations with Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Björk. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. Spiegel was born to a Jewish family in Rockville, Maryland, and raised in Bethesda, Maryland and in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. His father, Arthur Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family and founded APM Management Consultants.
more

Megan Baltimore if the co-founder of Girl Skateboards, and the Crailtap family of companies.