Mauritius

Mauritius

Beck’s purpose in life is to get people to their greatest potential, including her own. She applies the power of storytelling and the art of gathering to accomplish this purpose. 

Her four guiding principles in life are:

1)  Experience is everything. Live by design, not by default.

2)  Relationships enhance experiences, and life is our one experience. Make ‘em count.

3)  Nothing is personal.

4)  Ruthlessly compete with your own best self.
 
When she was 19, she graduated from UCLA in two years with a degree in economics, one of her other loves. The University of Pittsburgh took on a bet on her or otherwise thought a teenager would do well with graduate students typically twice her age, and so she graduated with an MBA as the school’s youngest graduate to date at just 21 years old. 

In 2006, she ran her first marathon and came back to San Diego to start working on a TV show while working at NBC 7/39.  She produced and hosted a few more TV shows and won an Emmy in 2011. Beck loved business more than interviewing people who did business, and she started BAM, a communications agency, in 2008.
 
Today, BAM represents venture backed technology startups that are changing the world for good and works with her team of “BAMfs” to tell stories that matter. In 2023, BAM was acquired by LLYC, a public agency located in 13 countries. Beck is also an angel investor and invests in startups and VC funds such as Voyager Ventures, Noemis Ventures, Cooler Heads, and Outlines that help the people and planet live better and last longer. She helps BLCK VC with public relations and serves as a Techstars mentor. In 2011, she started Bite San Diego, which became San Diego’s top rated and largest food tour company and sold it in 2016. Soon after, she started OnePitch, a platform to help publicists quit bitching about pitching. 

Besides the business stuff, Beck is a licensed helicopter pilot, a Krav Maga practitioner, a trained Crisis Text Line counselor, an adamant Stoic, a voracious traveler who contributes to Forbes frequently, and a volunteer with the San Diego Police Department’s Crisis Interventionist team. She holds a PhD in Organizational Change and Global leadership which she completed in May 2023. In addition to becoming Jewish (she converted in 2022), Beck loves hosting a good dinner party that lasts for hours and flipping through a tattered passport. She’s down for a good game of chess and runs at 4:30am every day, her version of "dawn patrol."