Christina is the co-founder of Popins, a Seattle based startup presenting and livestreaming artists in AR and VR as their most authentic selves since 2021. Popins is powered by Forma Vision, the world leader in holographic teleportation. As founder and CEO of Calio Music, Christina notably provides music licensing and support for Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science to young women and students from underrepresented groups.

Christina’s prior experience includes a decade leading music licensing and business development, sales, and marketing at Microsoft’s Xbox, MSN, and Windows groups and international sales and marketing at Geffen Records in Los Angeles.  

An Austrian and (first-generation) American citizen, Christina is the President of the Washington Chapter of the non-profit Austrian-American Council and is a board member of the Seattle

Theatre Group (STG). Christina lives in Seattle with her husband, artist Joie Calio, has two incredible daughters, and shares her home with a menace of a cat named Beeb.