Born and raised in Los Angeles, Anthony “antpooh” Kennedy grew up with four addictions: reading comics, playing video games, watching wrestling and PRINCE. After graduating from UCLA, he parlayed his passions into covering these “time wasters” for five years with popular urban lifestyle publication, The Source Magazine. The position led him to achieve his own form of a triple crown by covering WWE’s WrestleMania, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and the San Diego Comic-Con in a singular calendar year.
In 2009, Anthony expanded his skill sets by joining Cashmere Agency as Project Manager, learning the ends of out of the newest marketing field, Social Media. While there, he’s worked with many film & music celebs including Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, and the Kardashians while creating successful, out-of-the-box marketing strategies for elite brands such as adidas, AOL, EA Sports, FX, Netflix, Pepsi, Sony and Warner Bros. After a successful stop at Konami handling their social media for 15 games (including the Castlevania and METAL GEAR SOLID franchises), he’s moved on to managing the Employer Branding team at one of his fave childhood gaming companies, EA. Work with the EA Sports, BioWare, and DICE for successful launches of Battlefield, FIFA, Madden, and Star Wars Battlefront games.
Additionally, Anthony is fulfilling his childhood dream by contributing his passionate expertise and unique perspectives to his favorite topics (comics, pro wrestling and Prince) to podcasts from PodcastJuice.net and Nerd-O-Rama, while growing his media outlet the QA with his co-host, Meriah Hudson!
