About Dodiodo

Dodiodo, Inc. is the development and holding company for founder Dodie Jacobi’s intellectual property created around her personal interests and four-decade career in innovation, entrepreneurship, media, and entertainment.

We assemble right-talented teams to develop properties. Then we partner with corporate or institutional investors that bring the funding, expertise, and human resources to scale.

CEO | President

Dodie Jacobi

During her 40-year career, Dodie has worked in content, product, market, and venture development with such recognized collaborators as Jim Henson’s Muppets, Harrison/Erickson (Phillie Phanatic’s creators), Children’s Television Workshop, PBS’s History Detectives, Hallmark, Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Sprint, Universal Press Syndicate, and The Kansas City Star. Dodie also founded 10 for- and not-for-profit ventures and mentored hundreds of other owners and entrepreneurs. You can read the long-play version of her background here. In Dodie's latest venture Dodiodo, she returns to her show biz roots developing content for the entertainment, media and market-leading b2smb brands. Dodie lives in Hyde Park in Kansas City, Missouri, with dog Simon and cat Fiona, knits, tap dances, and rides horse Taye in choreography to music and on happy trails.

General Counsel

William Quick, Polsinelli

Bill brings 25 years of corporate portfolio management, sales, and mergers and acquisitions experience as Dodiodo’s General Counsel. He is a shareholder at Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm with 900 attorneys in 21 offices nationwide. Recognized by legal research firm BTI Consulting as one of the top firms for excellent client service and client relationships, the firm’s attorneys provide value through practical legal counsel infused with business insight, and focus on health care, financial services, real estate, intellectual property, middle-market corporate, labor and employment and business litigation. Bill launched and heads the firm’s Corporate Transparency Act Practice group. He lives in Leawood, Kansas, where his children visit erratically and primarily for the house specialty: Grand Marnier Pancakes.

Creative Director

Laura Beers

For nearly 30 years, Laura has art directed and designed for the industry’s most notable publishers including HarperSanFrancisco, Harper One, iUniverse, Simon & Schuster, Rizzoli, Harcourt Brace, Avalon Publishing Group, Brush Dance, New World Library, and Conari Press. Laura lives in Sausalito, California, with her dog Lola. You'll find her dancing or hiking around the Bay Area when she's not enjoying her enviable view of the world.