Tacoma, Washington, United States
Andrew Fry is an entrepreneur and Director of Industry Partnerships at the School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington, Tacoma, where he has lectured for the last twenty four years. Former founder and CEO of Free Range Media and Lariat Software, he has a wide range of media communications, business and industry experience. In 2016 he created Adventures by Appointment and wrote and produced “The Last Escape”, the first escape room to be built in the South Puget Sound. He to has served on multiple boards, including Washington Technology Industry Association and the Cascadia Velocity Accelerator, including many non-profit and industry boards in the past including the Tacoma Musical Playhouse and a few Tacoma technology start-ups. He served on Congressman Adam Smith’s Tech Advisory Board. Andrew also served on the Washington State Governors Technology Advisory Council, and have spoken nationally and internationally on the evolution of the Web including two submissions to the 2nd and 4th World Wide Web Conferences in 1994 and 1996. He coauthored "How to Publish on the Internet" for Time Warner Publishing and maintains the blog “Living and Working in a Virtual World”. He has acted as Chair of the South Sound Technology Conference for the last 19 years and helped to launch Tacoma's "1 Million Cups" initiative through the Kauffman Foundation. He currently sits on the board of the Economic Development Board of Tacoma Pierce County and is co-chairing the committee on the strategic planning to develop a robust South Puget Sound Technology Industry Ecosystem.
Tacoma's first puzzle/escape room was at the time a new kind of theatrical experience in the South Sound. The puzzle room challenged participants to race the clock and break themselves out of a room by solving a series of elaborate puzzles that lead a group through a narrative involving eccentric billionaires, a spiritualist medium, and the most famous magician in the world.
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Founded and built one of the first web design and development companies. Early customers included the NFL, Nokia, Nikkei BP, (lots of Ns there). Everyone from Baywatch to the Christian Science Monitor.