Harley Cross

maker of many things

Maker of many things.

Harley is an entrepreneur, business/creative strategist, producer, real estate investor and was also a former film/television actor and musician.

He has worked on projects as diverse as a global outreach campaign for the UNFCCC, to creating products for luxury brands like Mont Blanc, BMW, Ritz Carlton and countless others.

He is currently the Director of Strategy for Land Core, a 501(c)3 non-profit that he co-founded in 2017 advancing soil health programs and policies that create value for farmers, businesses, and communities

Harley was CEO and artistic director of Hint Mint Inc., a designer candy company he co-founded in 1999 until the successful sale of the company in 2016. He also co-founded a quality control company in China during that time.

Harley was also the co-founder of “Interconnected”, a Los Angeles-based creative agency in 2011. Through Interconnected, Harley produced the viral video, "Caine's Arcade" and the followup, Caine's Arcade 2.

After the viral success of Caine's Arcade, he and his partner, Nirvan Mullick, co-founded Imagination.org (now merged with Two Bit Circus Foundation), a non-profit organization whose mission is to "find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship".

In 2014, Harley co-founded the non-profit organization, Play with Music, an after-school program designed to re-imagine music education for the 21st century.

As an actor, Harley appeared in over a dozen films as well as many TV shows from the 1980s into the 2000s. He was also the front-man of "The Harley Cross Band" in the early 2000s and was co-founder of a music project with Lauren Turk in 2014-15 called The New History.