 He is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California-Berkeley (graduating in 1989 with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies), and a contemporary of John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and D.V.DeVincentis.Together, Pink, Cusack and DeVincentis formed a production company, New Crime Productions, which produced both "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "High Fidelity".