Joanna Hoffman

Joanna Karine Hoffman (born July 27, 1955) is a Polish born Armenian-American marketing executive. She was one of the original members of both the Apple Computer Macintosh team and the NeXT team. 2Early life and education Hoffman was born in Poland, the daughter of film director Jerzy Hoffman and his Armenian former wife Marlene. She lived with her mother in the Soviet Union until age 10, when she went to live with her father in Warsaw, Poland. Around age 12 in 1967, her mother married an American and moved to Buffalo, New York; she got her visa and soon joined them in the United States. Hoffman quickly became fluent in English and excelled in school. She became estranged from her father, who has directed notable films, including The Deluge (1974), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Poland. Her family suffered during World War II and her great-grandparents died in the Holocaust. Her father was deported to Siberia but survived. She has a background in anthropology, physics, and linguistics, a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science from MIT, and pursued a doctorate (which she did not complete) in archaeology at the University of Chicago at the Oriental Institut