Joe Wendel spent three years at Millbrook School and graduated in 1999 as the #3 all-time leading scorer in basketball. He earned a dual athletic/academic scholarship to the University of New Haven in Connecticut before transferring to Rowan University in his home state of New Jersey.</ br>< /br>After graduation, Joe went on to become a technical recruiter in New York before moving West to climb the corporate ladder in Silicon Valley. During a decade-long career at Google in San Francisco, Joe managed various engineering recruitment teams. He ultimately found a home on the “Noogler” stage, leading Google’s weekly new-hire orientation program.</ br>< /br>Joe left the corporate world altogether in 2019. He worked as a bartender in San Francisco while pursuing a career in voiceover acting. Once COVID hit, he moved to a secluded mountain home in the redwoods of Northern California, where he spent his days hiking in nature and his nights volunteering to coach basketball.</ br>< /br>After a couple of years of mountain life, Joe was presented with an opportunity from an old college roommate: become a 50/50 partner in Duxbury Oyster Company, an oyster farm and wholesale business in Massachusetts. In keeping with his “say yes to life” philosophy, Joe decided to become an oysterman, devoting his life to aquaculture and moving back East to harvest shellfish on Cape Cod Bay.