Michealene Cristini Risley. Source image from Sega Retro.

Michealene Cristini Risley

An American former head licensing executive with Sega of America's Entertainment & Consumer Products division, responsible for establishing the company's Hollywood licensing capabilities, as well as being a founding member of the Sega Girls Task Force. Employed with the company from early 1993 to the Winter of 1995, she was crucial in working out the deals needed to bring Sonic the Hedgehog to television, eventually creating many of the policies and procedures that Sega of America uses in their licensing to this very day.