Cindy married into the koi hobby - little did she know. Tom and she bought their first house in 1982 and Tom immediately begin building their first koi pond (during the winter). They joined the Koi Club of San Diego in 1985. Cindy has actively participated in the club, including serving as the club’s President for two years. She also belongs to the Southern California Water Garden Society, the Inland Koi Society and the Mid-Atlantic Koi Club. After attending an IWGS event in 1998, Cindy talked Tom into building her a water garden and they have had a water garden and separate koi pond ever since.

Cindy was a Financial Analyst by trade, but started helping Tom with KOI USA Magazine in 1997. In addition to the desktop publishing of the magazine, she was Interim editor twice. Cindy also does the layout for Mid-Atlantic Koi Club’s magazine.

In July of 2008, she and Tom purchased Pondkeeper/Pond & Garden Lifestyle Magazine, and relaunched it as a new magazine, now known as POND Trade. Cindy serves as the Editor, does the accounting, and somehow manages to keep Tom on schedule.

She clearly remembers making Tom really happy one day when she announced she wanted a Kujaku. The Kujaku they got became the runner-up in AKCA’s Koi of the Year Contest in 2008 and Cindy selected and purchased the Showa that won the AKCA’s Koi of the Year award in 2009. So she has learned a little about koi over the years.

Cindy has a passion for traveling and has included many visits to water gardens, koi ponds, retailers and events on several continents, and looks forward to getting on the road again soon.