Jaclyn Battistoni – Head of Marketing
As a health promotion and disease prevention major at the University of Southern California, Jaclyn is a senior studying pre-medicine with plans to go to medical school.  Her dreams of becoming a doctor began in high school when her sister was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus which was a very difficult time for their family.  When Jaclyn witnessed the impact that doctors had on her sister’s life by diagnosing and treating her, she knew that helping people had to be a part of her career.  Her choice of specialty in medicine right now is pediatrics because she has always had a love for children.

Jaclyn was born and raised in a suburb of Chicago and never lived anywhere else until she moved to Los Angeles for college.  Her entire family remains in Chicago and since she values family so deeply, she will be moving back for medical school.  However, she is still undecided as to which school she wants to attend.  During high school, Jaclyn was involved with pre-medical classes and extracurricular activities.  She worked as a Certified Nurse’s Assistant for four years during high school and college, and has continued with volunteer work in hospitals and nursing homes since then.

At USC, Jaclyn is active with her sorority Alpha Chi Omega, and has just finished her term as the Vice President.  Jaclyn’s experience with her sorority and the many organized parties that she has participated in during her time at USC inspired her to start ExtremeTheme with her partners.  Having helped to plan many sorority functions, she saw the need for a company to help with the party planning.  She brings her experience with the Greek system at USC and their typical needs to the company.

Michael Hilde – Party Planner
As a Public Policy and Development major at the University of Southern California, Michael is a junior planning on becoming either a real estate agent or developer.  He has been fascinated with houses and land development ever since his dad built a huge farm in the city of Temecula.  Michael is focusing his studies in the land development area, and plans to return to the USC to receive his masters.

He grew up in the city of Whittier California where he had lived for sixteen years of his life until moving to Mission Viejo.  Michael, having been involved in many sports throughout his younger years, joined the Mission Viejo Nadadores diving club at the age of ten.  Michael quickly excelled in diving and traveled all over the United States, as well as internationally, for competitions.  He has won seven Junior National titles and has competed in the Olympic Trials.

Michael is currently part of the University of Southern California’s swimming and diving team. He has been on the team for three years and plans to return for one more season. In his three years he has participated in the NCAA’s two times.  As a freshman he scored in all three of his events, which had not been done since 1999. Michael will be a great asset to this business. Michael has learned how to become a leader especially in stressful situations. Michael has been part of a team his whole life which makes it easy for him to cooperate with many different people, and work well with them.

Chieko Kinsho – Party Planner and Accounting Specialist
As a senior at the University of Southern California, Chieko is majoring in accounting and plans to graduate in May, 2006.  Upon graduation she will start working at Deloitte & Touche LLP as an auditor, which she is very excited about. 

Chieko was born and raised in Osaka, Japan.  Her dream, ever since she was very little, was to become a flight attendant, which requires a grasp of the English language.  Therefore, she decided to go to the United States to study English for one year after graduating from junior college in Osaka, Japan.  She first attended the ESL school in Los Angeles, but struggled to improve her English skill much.  She transferred to college to improve her English and in the process, took a few business courses.  She enjoyed her accounting classes and because her GPA was high, decided to apply to USC.  Upon receiving her acceptance, Cheiko, chose accounting as her major because of her enjoyment with it and the high probability of receiving a job offer.

Chieko enjoys playing golf as a hobby outside of school and accounting.  During the summer she trained with a coach and frequented the driving range at least four times a week.  In order to retain a healthy mind and body, she still makes it to the range once a week.

Christina Medina – Party Planner
Christina is currently a senior at the University of Southern California and is majoring in Communication with a minor in English.  She is a member of the Latino Business Student Association, an organization promoting the importance of college and corporate America in the minds of young Hispanics.

She was born and raised in Whittier, California and has attended Catholic School all of her life.  Her hard working parents have strived to give her the best education possible and have been a huge influence in her accomplishments.  Since the age of ten, Christina has dreamed of attending USC but has always been unsure of what profession to choose. She realized that she was happiest when meeting people from different backgrounds, especially through travel. In fact, Christina has traveled to many different parts of the country and still keeps in touch with several of the people she has met.  Her friendly and well-rounded personality led her to intern at KPWR and KROQ in Los Angeles where she made the decision to become a Radio Sales Executive.  She always knew her passion for music and travel would eventually play a huge role in her career.

Besides her aim to becoming a Radio Sales Executive, Christina has worked effortlessly taking part in creating “Extreme Theme”, a party themed service catering to college students around the country.  Not only is she driven to making it a successful business, but her passion and skills in party planning are amazing.  Researching this industry taught her that there is a huge demand for people with this type of craft.  Christina has truly ventured into a competitive world, but plans to approach it with strong wit and perseverance.

Along with academic and career goals, Christina enjoys working out and spending all her free time going to New York City.   She plans attending graduate school there and hopes to explore many more places along the way. 

Jeff Zechnich – Chief Party Planner
As a current junior at the University of Southern California, Jeff is double majoring in business and accounting.  He is a member of the Accounting Society, which is a professional organization established to introduce and help students with the recruiting process with the accounting firms.  Jeff has not always known he wanted to be an accountant, however. 

Always telling his father, a CPA, that he did not want to follow in his boring footsteps, Jeff always said he would do anything but become an accountant.  However, due to the classes and the caliber of the people he met during accounting events, Jeff was convinced he had to change his mind about the profession.  He changed his major to accounting and is hoping to receive an internship this summer at one of the Big Four accounting firms.  Somehow, with all his classes and recruiting events, Jeff finds a way to remain physically active. 

During high school he participated in three sports, football, basketball and track.  He was the starting wide receiver on the division championship football team his senior year.  Also in his senior year, he was a starting forward on the basketball team, which he led to the semifinals of the division championships.  In the spring of his senior year, Jeff ran track and made the second round of the division championships in the high hurdles. 

With this void of competition in his life, Jeff brings a lot of enthusiasm and drive to Extreme Theme.  Along with this, his background in accounting gives him a specialty that allows him to ensure the company is being as efficient as possible.