CATAPULT: CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP

Catapult is a creative partner unlike any other. We are a collective of creative professionals dedicated to promoting quality products, brands, and organizations. Catapult was initially founded as a Hollywood commercial production company. Today, our core expertise extends across design, marketing, entertainment, and philanthropic communications.

Our Design Team has developed brand identity systems for companies like jetBlue, Harvard, and The New York Times. Our Brand Marketing Team has created campaigns for American Express, Mercedes-Benz, and GE. Our Entertainment Marketing Team has cut blockbuster movie trailers and Disney, Sony, and Netflix. Our Film Production Team has shot in over 15 countries for our national and international clients.

Our mission is to use our time, talent, and resources to advance organizations that better the planet, society, and humanity. So while we partner with organizations of all sizes, we are honored to have led the development of philanthropic communications for four of the largest and most successful fundraising campaigns in history.

Our clients appreciate that we deliver holistic marketing solutions across a wide variety media, so they don't need to manage multiple agencies.

Design

CATAPULT: MARKETING
We believe transactional-based marketing is outdated. At best, it merely generates superficial “likes,” incremental sales, or temporary change. In sharp contrast, we believe the most powerful, influential, and lasting connections are made through a strong and vibrant community. Community members can build unshakeable loyalty by taking engagement to the next level through active advocacy. The strongest communities are built on shared truth, transparency, trust, and a genuine sense of belonging. We believe that fueling community engagement is the key to effective marketing.

CATAPULT: FILM PRODUCTION & POST-PRODUCTION
The Catapult Film Production Team has led the scripting, production, post-production, and promotion of award-winning commercials, feature films, documentaries, series, and trailers. We have shot films in over 15 countries for national and international companies and organizations. Our entertainment clients, including Disney, Columbia Pictures, Illumination, Lionsgate, Marvel, Paramount Pictures, Roadside, Starz, Universal, and Netflix, set the highest standards of excellence. Our filmmakers live to create compelling content that builds brands and drives business results. Regardless of budget, every Catapult client has access to our production powerhouse. That’s how we make sure every great idea is distinctive and well-executed from start to finish.

CATAPULT: BUSINESS RESULTS
Catapult has created best-in-class solutions across a wide variety of creative disciplines. In addition to winning awards, our work is celebrated for its effectiveness in the marketplace. Perhaps it is because we believe that great work requires passion, intelligence, and personal commitment – a truth demonstrated by a portfolio of work that spans five decades. A client gave us the ultimate compliment, saying, “Thank you. The work really works.” We believe creative solutions should stand up to the scrutiny of customers, employees, and CFOs alike. So, although we value the little gold statues, we are even more pleased that our clients return project after project and year after year.

Team Leaders

Scarlett Rabe
Founder & CEO

Scarlett Rabe

Founder & CEO

Being really tall.

Her insane family, her insane work ethic, her insane story, her overall insane-ness. Also, she tends to keep it really (albeit sometimes too) real.

Let's just leave that alone for now...

She was born on a piano bench.

In her quiet little shack on the sea, or on a giant stage.

Christopher Hitchens, Claire Underwood, Lana Del Rey.

A piano, a stage, a mic, some fancy clothes, and 20,000 fans singing her songs with her.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

TED BAKER
DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICE

TED BAKER

DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICE

Listening first, speaking second.

Anna & Juliana Baker.

Managing Director of Revision; Director of Consumer Electronics, Samsung; Director of New Business, Merkley+Partners.

South of New York.

On the good side of the Hudson River in Hoboken, NJ.

Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, Edward Hopper, Lew Wasserman.

To live abroad.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Lorraine Ketch
DIRECTOR OF BRAND STRATEGY

Lorraine Ketch

DIRECTOR OF BRAND STRATEGY

Her laugh. You can hear it a block away.

Helping create Challenger brand theory, Disruption theory, 6 tech start ups, serial social entrepreneurs, and as the President of IBM UK Said, "a welcome stripe of shocking pink in a very navy blue world".

Chief Strategy Officer, managing partner Chiat Day/TBWA LA, NY, and San Francisco (but, not all at the same time).

The dark, satanic mills of England (up North).

LA at the beach.

Pork belly bahn mi.

Getting to bed before midnight.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

Rick Rabe
Executive Creative Director

Rick Rabe

Executive Creative Director

Designer+Marketer+Filmmaker

Ad Age Campaign of the Decade. The Harvard Campaign. Award-winning campaigns for Mercedes-Benz, BMW, American Express. HUD commercial inducted into the permanent collection of the NY Museum of Modern Art.

Art Center. VP Ogilvy & Mather, NY. Creative Director & Managing Director of Omnicom's Merkley+Partners. DGA Commercial Director.

Hollywood, CA.

LA & NYC.

Carl Sagan, Sir Elton John, and Stewie Griffin.

Live to see a world that has: embraced regenerative agriculture, fixed our food system, and saved the climate.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein

ADRIAN PULFER
DESIGN DIRECTOR

ADRIAN PULFER

DESIGN DIRECTOR

His (Australian) accent.

His 4 children.

Beach bum, American Express, Graphis, textile designer.

The land of OZ...literally.

On the Great Barrier Reef.

Bill Bryson, Dieter Rams and John Muir.

Learn to cook.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. – Joe Sparano

Tim McClure
CEO, Iconic Texas

Tim McClure

CEO, Iconic Texas

Co-founder of GSD&M Advertising & Founder of Mythos Legends Brand Consultancy

Don’t mess with Texas, America’s Favorite Advertising Slogan; Texas: The Big Picture; Southwest Airlines’ Flagship Fleet

Co-founder of GSD&M Advertising, proud member of the global Omnicom Group. Founder of Mythos Legends Brand Consultancy. A lifelong passion for ideas.

Native Texan from Corsicana

Austin / Texas / Planet Earth

Stephen Hawking / Herbert D. Kelleher / Eula Wilkerson Coulson

Tim dreams of a world where the only race is human, the only color is rainbow, and the only creed is tolerance…a world that recognizes and embraces the need to save that planet for future generations.

“Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. Ask them what problems they want to solve.” ~James Casap, Google Global Education Evangelist

Julie Fitzpatrick Rafferty
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC MARKETING

Julie Fitzpatrick Rafferty

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC MARKETING

Her laugh.

Her amazing son, Steve.

Daily newspaper reporter and editor; PR and fundraising communications leader at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard’s Public Health School in Boston.

Upstate New York and Boston, MA.

With a book at The Beanery in Berkeley, CA.

Marty Baron, Walter Robinson, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes, and the Boston Globe Spotlight team of 2002.

Seeing a woman elected President of the United States.

To whom much is given, much is required. – John F. Kennedy and St. Luke the Evangelist

Fred Sattler
Director OF Media Strategy

Fred Sattler

Director OF Media Strategy

Simplifying the complex

The privilege of working with some of the industry's best talent. Ad Age Media Maven. Cannes Media Lions Jurist.

EVP, Initiative and PHD Media. Media Strategy Director, TBWA/Chiat/Day

Just a city boy, born and raised in 'South' Detroit

On or near the water

Music Educators

Learn Spanish

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" –Bob Dylan

Kristina Pompa
Director of Event Production

Kristina Pompa

Director of Event Production

Attention to detail and thoughtful partnership.

The hard work of her family has done, so can be where she is today.

Event Services Manager, NYC & Company, Producer, Feats, VP, Production, August Jackson.

Baltimore, MD.

Little Italy, Baltimore, MD.

Maya Angelou and her grandmother.

Run a marathon.

“You don’t have to, you get to.” –Jess Sims

Will King
DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT

Will King

DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT

Creating visually appealing, highly functional websites.

His beautiful wife and two daughters.

Musician, surfer, golfer, ping pong sensei.

Orange County, CA.

Following the two-year-old around with a vaccum.

His family.

Traveling the world.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. – Wayne Gretzky

Skye Emerson
DIGITAL & SOCIAL DIRECTOR

Skye Emerson

DIGITAL & SOCIAL DIRECTOR

Her passion for football, rescuing animals, and true-crime television.

She recently completed screenplay about her childhood hero, Sally Ride. Her MFA from The School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Her lack of road rage whilst driving in Los Angeles.

University of Texas at Austin. Wrote and produced short form content for MTV2. Oversaw millennial marketing for PepsiCo North America. Founding creator of a mobile app designed for professional, college, and high school sports teams.

Austin, TX! The beautiful mountains of Utah.

50% sandy, sunny Venice, CA & 50% snowy, serene Salt Lake City, UT.

Sally Ride, Alan Ball, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Fonda, Skye's amazing mother.

Getting her script onto the big screen. Working at a Panda rescue.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. – Anais Nin

Alex Sadof
Producer & Sr. Editor

Alex Sadof

Producer & Sr. Editor

Editing movie trailers for over 20 years, sound design, attention to detail, and his homemade marinara and meatballs that his grandma taught him to make

Being an integral part of the rise and expansion of two of the largest movie trailer companies in Hollywood, and taking that knowledge and experience to co-found Second Lunch Creative

Trailer Park Inc., Create Advertising, Emerson College, UCLA Film School, Ski Team, Tennis Team, Golf Team

Born in Houston, TX, raised in Boston, MA, living the dream in Los Angeles, CA

Espresso and weekend overland adventures

His Grandfather, the boxer, football player, Pacific Theater WWII Army Captain who always believed in him

Driving a lap in the F1 Monaco Grand Prix

I am big. It's the pictures that got small. –Norma Desmond

Team Members

Hagoth Aiono
Director/Editor

Hagoth Aiono

Director/Editor

Making things look cool.

His family. They motivate him to go hard.

Musician. Writer. Dreamer. Eagle Scout.

Earth. Specifically Samoa & New Zealand.

Los Angeles, California, where the air is so clean.

His son Kingston, who helped him to realize his full potential.

Raising his family in the Islands, and only working 6 months out of the year.

Just do it. – Nike

Maureen Abernathy
Editor

Maureen Abernathy

Editor

Weird faces, going on great adventures, gumption

Unwavering loyalty (even in the face of dire circumstances)

Professional animal befriender, The Witch from Into The Woods, alto saxophone enthusiast (first chair, what what!), world explorer extraordinaire

Between the mountains and beaches of Virginia

Shoes off, feet up, enjoying a good book or catching a new episode of her latest TV obsession

Joss Whedon, J. K. Rowling, Buffy Summers

Learning to speak whale

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour – William Blake

MATTHEW BALDWIN
DIGITAL ARTIST

MATTHEW BALDWIN

DIGITAL ARTIST

Top-notch retouching and illustration – helping Mercedes-Benz, Tom Ford and Justin Timberlake look great.

His two amazing kids.

Painting MFA from Pratt Institute. At age 23, did modeling work for a men’s fitness ad. That was before he realized the world needed talented photo-illustrators.

Minnesota farm country surrounded by horses, ducks, a llama and a monkey.

Austin, Texas, where the air is filled with music and the smell of barbecue.

Vivian Maier, Peter Gabriel, Pixar.

Take the wraps off his 12 latest pieces and have a solo show.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it. – Wendell Berry

Alison Blair
Director of Brand Services

Alison Blair

Director of Brand Services

Always getting the job done, without fail.

GSD&M’s historic re-pitch of Southwest Airlines. Design of Southwest Airlines’ Specialty Fleet. Launch of H2Orange to fund UT scholarships. Her husband and kids, and the fun life they have built together.

Trail Rider, Strength Coach, Project Director at GSD&M, Marketing Manager for H2Orange.

One of the last few to be able to call Austin home since birth.

Literally... at home. Introvert at heart. Extrovert on call.

Colleen Barrett and Herb Kelleher.

She wants to jump out of a plane. Yes, with a parachute.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. – Robin Williams

Linda Bobel
Producer & Sr. Editor

Linda Bobel

Producer & Sr. Editor

Producing and editing trailers for films others don't know how to market

Being one of the first female trailer editors in the business and mentoring young women who want to be editors. Co-founder of Second Lunch Creative.

New Line Cinema, Trailer Park, Cleveland State University, Parma High

Born in Cleveland, Ohio but pure Angeleno

Hiking with Fritz the dog, swimming, watching Schitts Creek over and over again

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Bowie, Alexander McQueen, Joan Jett, and Serena

Starting an elephant rescue

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. –Coco Chanel

Tyler Bingham
Graphic Designer

Tyler Bingham

Graphic Designer

Building meaning into brands. A fear of spreadsheets.

His family & relationships with amazing collaborators.

Rushford Ross Orton, RED, Adjunct Professor.

The land of Hemingway, huckleberries, bluebirds and potatoes.

Traveling with his family.

Stout, Eames, Rams, Rand, Jobs, Edison, Daily.

Design and build a camp trailer.

The best way to complain is to make things. — James Murphy

Kevin Cantrell
Senior Designer

Kevin Cantrell

Senior Designer

Pectoralis major and minor.

His wife, three children

Germany, South Africa, Brazil.

Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Anywhere with his wife and 3 boys.

Nelson Mandela, Bono, William Tyndale.

Write a fictional trilogy.

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

ANGELICA DASTRUP
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

ANGELICA DASTRUP

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Organizational freak. Modern dance. Culinary innovation.

A unique ability to simultaneously manage countless projects, tasks, clients, deadlines and unforeseen mishaps.

Piano Teacher, SL8 Records, Music Video Production.

Born in Arizona, raised on the streets of NYC.

On the beach in California.

Michael Jackson, Colin Cowie, the guy who makes that magical B3 ice cream at Toscanini's.

Professional dancer.

Everything is created twice: First in your mind, then in your reality. – Robin Sharma

TOM DONAHUE
FILM DIRECTOR

TOM DONAHUE

FILM DIRECTOR

Ordering Italian food to set.

The amazing stories he has captured on camera.

"Casting By," "Ponies," "Guest of Cindy Sherman," "Man Push Cart," "Highway Courtesans," "Thanksgiving," "Washington Heights," "Naked States," "Keep the River on Your Right."

Shooting Super 8 movies in Red Hook, NY and editing the footage with scissors and scotch tape.

In the West Village with a bottomless espresso.

Springsteen.

Own a winery in Sonoma Valley.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. — Katharine Hepburn

DANA GARMAN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

DANA GARMAN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Being blunt and having good taste.

Working with fun, smart amazingly talented people over the years.

Ridley Scott & Associates, Tony Kaye, Mark Romanek, Tom Foden, Jake Scott etc., etc.

The Beach.

In her home.

Coco Chanel, Steve Jobs, Dalai Lama, and Auntie Mame.

To work with David Fincher.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Andrea Gretsky
BRAND STRATEGY DIRECTOR

Andrea Gretsky

BRAND STRATEGY DIRECTOR

Being able to talk with anyone.

Her kids.

Strategist, planner and researcher working on both client and agency side of the business for big brands such as AT&T, JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, Verizon, U.S. Army, and Applebees.

Maryland inside the beltway.

NJ Exit 135.

Eleanor Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Getting her pilot's license.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

VENETIA HANDS
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

VENETIA HANDS

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

Getting everyone to pull in the same direction.

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean to live in America.

Masters in Organization Development, coaching leaders to communicate with power, focus group moderator, BSC Experimental Psychology, survivor of English boarding school.

Halfway between the Tower of London and the dreaming spires of Oxford, England.

Manhattan and the very tip of the un-Hamptons fork of Long Island.

Atul Gwande, Bill Bryson, her 83-, 92- and 101-year-old neighbors.

Bareboating in Fiji.

The way to change the culture in a company is to change what’s happening in the room right now. – Peter Block

Megan Kent
Brand Strategist/Account Director

Megan Kent

Brand Strategist/Account Director

Her 5-borough laugh.

Her amazing children, Spanish fluency, groundbreaking strategic work on BMW, the launch of Brand USA in less than 8 months which generated a 23:1 ROI in their first year.

Worked on a pear packing shed on the Sacramento River Delta, and Chupa Chups lollipops in Barcelona, Spain.

Northern California: Berkeley, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland Hills.

Brooklyn Heights and Hudson River Valley, NY.

Daniel Kahneman, Anais Nin, Oscar Wilde.

Finishing her book on Brain Friendly Branding®!

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

MARC KLEIN
ART DIRECTOR/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

MARC KLEIN

ART DIRECTOR/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Working with great people.

His two kids.

Harvard, Applied Physics, Writer at the NM Museum of Natural History, machine shop.

Hither and yon.

NYC.

Banksy, Robert Capa, Tibor Kalman, Bobby Kennedy, Richard Feynman.

Compete in the Olympics.

Make it work. – Anonymous

MICHAEL KOSOWICZ
GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

MICHAEL KOSOWICZ

GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

Co-Founder of the Red Rocket Advertising Agency.

The opportunity to work in an industry that is always innovating.

Account guy for some of the world's greatest brands, Citi, Guinness, Red Stripe, Green & Black, Golden Corral, Milton-Bradley.

Small town boy from New Hampshire.

Under the bright lights of New York and the quiet trails of the mountains.

Teddy Roosevelt, a true conservationist heavy weight.

To do more with less.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

JIM LEACH
WRITER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

JIM LEACH

WRITER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Finding the soul of an institution in the experiences of its people.

Family raised, friendships made, stories told.

Cook, newscaster, journalist, college communicator, freelance writer, nature photographer.

Native upstate New Yorker.

In Hamilton, NY, where he has lived for 30-plus years, and in the Adirondacks, where he’s been keeping time since 1962.

Paul Farmer, Clint Eastwood, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kennedy.

Write a novel: “The Dean Wore Dingos.”

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read. – Mark Twain

Kathleen Lucente
PR: Red Fan Communications

Kathleen Lucente

PR: Red Fan Communications

Being a CEO whisperer, brand builder, and crisis slayer.

Earning her stripes as a journalist first before moving into the world of PR.

Built top tier teams in Boston, New York, and Hong Kong. Comms for LabMorgan resulting in over 15 IPOs and acquisitions, Represented world-renowned scientists for IBM Research.

Raised by a New Yorker father and a Bostonian mother on Long Island, NY. After years of flying to Austin from Boston and NYC the magnetic force was too powerful so it’s been her home for 15 years.

In high heels or hiking boots.

Her grandmother, Lillian Hannon Bittman, one of the many trailblazing women in Kathleen's life. She was the first woman in the 1920s to get married and keep her job as the head of the telephone operators in Boston, MA.

Going on an extended tour with the Grateful Dead.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. – Bob Thaves

HOLLY LYNCH
BRAND STRATEGY DIRECTOR

HOLLY LYNCH

BRAND STRATEGY DIRECTOR

Hurting herself while participating in extreme/endurance sports.

Helping millions of women achieve business leadership, greater self-esteem and a sense of their own real beauty.

Financier, caterer, social entrepreneurship activist, strategist for Dove’s Real Beauty. Also started a few cultural movements at BBH, StrawberryFrog and her own women’s business consultancy.

From the streets of NYC to Harvard.

Anywhere the wind, a plane or a train can take her. But normally, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her very royal Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (dog), Pippa.

Her grandparents who had the guts to get on a boat, believing something greater was possible on the other side of the ocean.

Run the New York City Marathon.

It’s never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

Erik Maes
Editor

Erik Maes

Editor

Greying prematurely.

Zoey, his dog.

Motion graphics designer, jewelry designer, leather handbag designer.

Have you ever spent a winter in Wisconsin?

Chicago and Wisconsin.

Joan Miro, Fela Kuti, and Michael Jordan.

World travel.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Einstein

ANDREW NELSON
PRODUCER

ANDREW NELSON

PRODUCER

Doing whatever it takes to get the shot with a smile.

His ability to make a living doing what he enjoys.

PC user.

Discovering the world through pictures in Liverpool (no, not England, Upstate NY).

Drinking a tall cold glass of non-fat milk.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Steve Jobs and every teacher he's ever had.

Write a film script that gets produced.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. – The Buddha

CHRIS NOVAK
STRATEGY DIRECTOR

CHRIS NOVAK

STRATEGY DIRECTOR

Celebrated work in telecom, healthcare, integrated marketing, non-profits, and education.

Using 8 million bicycle stickers to launch the first phone lines between China and the USA.

ClearAgenda, StoryCorps, Ogilvy, two start-ups, FCB, Harvard B-School.

Boston’s North Shore.

New York’s Upper West Side, on any sailboat, or on any warm rock in the sun.

Superman, Ernest Shackleton, Giorgio Morandi, Laurie Anderson, Gail Collins, Louis Menand.

Perform a one-woman show.

It's always something. – Roseanne Roseannadanna

ENOCH PALMER
CREATIVE DIRECTOR/DESIGNER

ENOCH PALMER

CREATIVE DIRECTOR/DESIGNER

National Design Award for Corporate Achievement at Aveda.

Ezra, Ada, Tenney & Minnie.

Slover [and] Company, The Valentine Group, marchFIRST, Aveda.

California, Hawaii.

Anywhere with his family - from North Shore to New York.

Mom.

Bodysurfing Big Pipeline.

Everything is design. Everything! – Paul Rand

CANACE PULFER
Creative Director

CANACE PULFER

Creative Director

Being the tallest woman in the room.

Rescuing, and then patiently living with, four wild and unruly shelter dogs.

A3 Design, UX Design, Masius, Modern Identity, Berrett Koehler Publishing.

50% Utah, 50% Australia.

In the southern Utah wild places.

Annie Dillard, Saul Bass, her amazing parents.

Getting a full 8 hours of sleep in a night.

I love the comment, "You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears. – Andrew Lewis

CHRISTOPHER RABE
FILM EDITOR

CHRISTOPHER RABE

FILM EDITOR

Looking on the bright side.

What is yet to come.

State Champion, Professional Baker, and Insect Slayer.

Greenwich, Connecticut.

Netflix + Hulu + Popcorn.

Patrick Henry.

Become the president of a motorcycle club.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C.S. Lewis

Matthew Rabe
Social Media Director

Matthew Rabe

Social Media Director

A theatrical performance on puns. It was a play on words.

His family & work he has done.

College Kid, ski bum, and sandwich-maker at Krazy Subs.

Born on the East coast, raised on the West coast.

With his loving wife, man’s best friend, and mini me.

Grandfather, Elon, and Kanye.

Visit all 50 States.

Decisions determine destiny. – Thomas S Monson

Alejandro Ruelas
Third Ear

Alejandro Ruelas

CMO, Managing Partner

TRAVIS STRATFORD
DESIGN STRATEGIST

TRAVIS STRATFORD

DESIGN STRATEGIST

Being a strict minimalist.

Creating visually rich branding solutions.

USWeb / CKS, Critical Mass, Estée Lauder.

Skater kid from Southern California.

In Scarsdale, NY (next door to Bugsy Siegel's old house).

Steve Jobs, Chris Hacker, Rick Grimes.

Stop aging.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy. – Henry Ford

Steve Sweitzer
ECD & Film Director

Steve Sweitzer

ECD & Film Director

His passion for adventure travel and exploration. Steve has a suitcase heart.

His family, “Tribe Sweitzer”, for their enthusiastic support of his ambitious and sometimes crazy dreams.

Steve has worked for some of the world’s most creative agencies: GSD&M, Chiat/Day, Hal Riney, Fallon, DDB.

Steve grew up on a farm and ranch in Audrain County, Missouri.

Austin, Audrain County, Barcelona, Annapurna

Jane Goodall for her humanity and David Hockney for his insatiable curiosity.

To explore Patagonia.

Enjoy life, it’s later than you think. –Carl Sigman

JOSH TAVLIN
WRITER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

JOSH TAVLIN

WRITER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Talking to strange dogs.

His sons, who he feels are smarter, more creative and far better looking than he.

Waiter in the Catskills.

New York, NY.

In Eastham Cape Cod, which for some reason is pronounced East-ham, not East-um.

Linus.

Operate a backhoe and save a life. Not at the same time.

I almost feel like if anything is controversial, the guy's gotta be doing something right. – Bob Dylan

Neilan Tyree
Business Development

Neilan Tyree

Business Development

30+years devotion to new business…and over $6 billion in wins along the way.

Three years as Adweek’s monthly columnist “Man About Town” www.adweek.com/contributor/neilan-tyree.

One of Glorious Foods’ top waiters. Malcolm Forbes’ private waiter. William F. and Pat Buckley’s private bartender. Star of a one-man show at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

Florence, Alabama (NOT near Birmingham – the pretty part in the northwest on the Tennessee River).

Jacksonville, LA, NYC.

His parents, Harvey Milk, Jay Chiat, Jane Newman, Laurie Coots, Bob Jeffrey, Stephen Sondheim, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, and Martin Amis.

To finish writing his book.

Life’s a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death! – Mame Dennis

ADITYA VERMA
Account Director

ADITYA VERMA

Account Director

Writing the American Idol Text Messaging Voting program for AT&T Wireless.

Raising money for Mother Teresa to benefit the children affected by the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India.

Master’s from Northwestern University. Merkley+Partners, AT&T, Entrepreneur developing mobile applications for healthcare clients.

Bombay, India.

Hoboken, NJ, home of Frank Sinatra, baseball and bubble wrap.

Mahatma Gandhi, Santa Claus.

Learn to write code.

Trust me Papa, that doesn’t match. – Shylah Liv Verma (2 years-old)

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