Rob: Sacramento, CA
Rob Quigley's work as Governor Schwarzenegger's New Media Director has been heralded by publications from the Los Angeles times to Mashable as groundbreaking and innovative.

His trajectory with new media began in 2002 with his work as Website Director for California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's Political Action Committee, when he was recruited away to manage website operations for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 historic recall election. For this recall campaign, he implemented first-of-a-kind location based features and services.

After taking office in 2003, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Rob as Deputy State CIO. As CIO, he coordinated the yearly State IT strategic plan, and managed the development of the State of California web standards–a massive plan to develop a common look and feel for hundreds of State department sites. Under Rob's management, the State's national web portal ranking rocketed from 43rd in 2002 to 2nd place in 2009.

After managing successful website redesigns for the California Museum and Governor Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial website, he was appointed New Media Director in 2007. As Director, he managed the online campaign for Governor Schwarzenegger's 2007 health care reform campaign.

Rob has aggressively pursued social media strategies for Governor Schwarzenegger through partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, YouTube, and Digg/CNN. He is responsible for the team that manages the Governor’s online persona including content creation and management of his Twitter feed with 1,600,000 million followers and his 260,000 strong Facebook fan page. His social media strategy for the Governor has been extremely successful with the press who credited him with changing politics through social media.


Rich: Los Angeles, CA
Rich Quigley is an award winning executive producer, and broadcast and campaign strategist. In 1995 he founded OnCue, a premier production house specializing in commercial, public relations, and marketing services for premium lifestyle and luxury brands such as TAG Heuer, Mont Blanc, Bulgari, Vespa, Rolls Royce, as well as AT&T, Lucent, and Procter & Gamble.

In 2000 he sold OnCue to News Broadcast Network (NBN), the largest privately held PR and marketing services firm in he US. Rich joined the NBN team and from 2000 to 2010 he has held the positions of Executive Producer and Broadcast Strategist responsible for overseeing all aspects of NBN’s west coast production and distribution, as well as developing, overseeing and managing the strategic broadcast and online initiatives for Disneyland Resorts, Nestlé, Walmart, Hyundai, and others.

For his nonprofit clients, Rich has created some of the most successful fundraising media and campaigns in history for clients such as the American Heart Association, American Cancer Association, Komen for the Cure, Charities of the US Air Force, Stanford University and others. Since 2000 the fundraising media and campaigns he’s orchestrated for nonprofits has helped his clients in raising over 12 billion dollars.

Rich has won numerous industry awards including the New York Television and Film Festival’s Gold World Medal, as well as Mercury Awards, WorldFest Awards, and Telly Awards.


Louis: Los Angeles, CA
Louis D'Esposito has over 20 years experience as a marketing strategist, creative director and graphic designer. He has worked for more than 17 years in the Southern California creative community. Over the course of his career, he has won international and national recognition for the design of annual reports, brand identities, and marketing materials including: the Blackbook AR100, Graphic Design USA, Print Magazine, Potlatch Papers, League of American Communications Professionals, the Stevie Awards and NIRI.

His approach to brand identity is unusual in two important ways: the amount of time he invests in developing an understanding of the purpose and character of the organization (which leads to everyone involved to think in new ways about the organization -- a very important process with lasting impact), and his keen responsiveness to peoples' ideas and desires to try this and that. The result is not just a better brand identity, but also a positive and lasting sense of ownership of the end product.

Known as a listener and problem solver, Louis is skilled at finding the right solution for each client's unique communications needs. Originally from New York City he holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design. He has served as an adjunct professor at Woodbury University.


Barry: Sarasota, FL
Barry Tuchfeld, Ph.D. works with organizations to add substantive value through marketing research and communications consulting, group facilitation and individual coaching, strategic and promotional services, and organizational assessments and evaluations. He holds a doctorate in Sociology and has a B.S. in Finance.

Projects typically include important front-end work with clients, thus insuring that the project objectives are clear and consistent with the organization's goals and values. His work often includes leadership guidance and group dialogue, grounded in the Senge tradition. Barry has worked with large and small companies over the last 20 years. Depending on the project he may use traditional and/or innovative approaches, including online data capturing or interviewing, as well as companies that can quickly implement national or international surveys.

His clients include: Levi Stauss, Envisix, Apollo Group, Captaris (formerly AVT, Institute for Educational Therapy, Nietech Corporation, Manex Corporation, Infinite Technologies, Motorola, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Convene, CAPP CARE, Information Access, Tantra.com, Pace Leasing, Access Health, WellPoint Healthcare, UCSF Medical Center, St. Joseph Healthcare System.


Maria: Boston, MA
Maria Salomo-Schmidt's extensive international marketing background developed from working for world-class communications firms like Manning Selvage & Lee, Spiralgroup, Armada Global, Niehaus Ryan Wong, and Hill & Knowlton. Salomo-Schmidt is an expert in the areas of strategic marketing, media relations, and online marketing. She has a deep knowledge of marketing to women, specifically. Her balanced diversity of clients have included: Americorps, Aristasoft, Brick House Realty, Continental Airlines, CBS Television, Jack Canfield (Author of "Chicken Soup For the Soul"), Digital, Dimension X, InternetWorld, Jane Goodall, IBM, Japanese Government, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mecklermedia, PeopleSoft, Portuguese Government, P&G, Reebok, Webgrrls, Working Woman Magazine, Xerox, and Yahoo!

Maria is also a leader in conducting communication workshops throughout the United States, Asia, Europe and Middle East. Most notably she worked for the Japanese Government creating global cross-cultural communication programs. She's been a distinguished member of National Speakers Association and a lecturer at San Francisco's former Alumnae Resources, Academy of Art College, Catholic University (Portugal), Suffolk University, Boston College, Simmons College and Golden Gate University. Her dynamic energy and passion have also led her to be featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and to speak at Internet World conferences around the globe, including Israel, Portugal and Philippines. An entrepreneur, she has also started several companies and is currently writing several business books. She has a degree in Communications from Boston College and an MBA from Simmons College Graduate School of Management. She also speaks several languages including Portuguese and English.


Jim: Seattle, WA
Jim Day has worked for national and international clients in all phases of marketing and marketing communication. He has managed internal/external market audits and developed high-level positioning strategies for domestic and international companies. He has written business plans, raised capital and developed lead-generation/channel marketing programs for small and mid-sized companies. As a creative director and copy supervisor, he has directed the development of numerous international and domestic advertising and direct marketing campaigns. He has built nationally recognized brands and negotiated distribution contracts with OEMs and domestic product distributors.

Since 1990, Jim has worked strategically and creatively on advertising, direct marketing and integrated marcom programs for Informix Software, Sybase, Hewlett-Packard, Business Objects, Auspex Systems, FORE (Alantec), Octel, Inmac, Miller-Freeman Publications, ASK Computer, Advanced Technology Staffing, Jorgensen/HR, Stevenson Capital Management, Menai Corporation, Accurate Sound, Target Direct and Connelly, O'Leary, Collins Insurance.

Before consulting, Jim was vice president of direct marketing for the business-to-business group at Saatchi & Saatchi/USA in New York. He was also the copy supervisor for S&S Direct/USA overseeing the copy requirements in the Manhattan, Rochester and San Francisco offices. While at Saatchi, Day completed strategic and creative assignments for NCR Computers, Linotype, Gartner Group, Datability, Rochester Community Savings Bank and Rochester Telephone Corporation.


Arun: Portland, OR
Arun Jain joined the City of Portland as its first Chief Urban Designer in December 2002. In this role he advises Portland's Mayor and the city (city council, public agencies, private developers, designers and citizens) on issues surrounding the physical quality of Portland. A key aspect of his work is to integrate public investment in infrastructure and private investment in buildings to create wonderful places. As a frequent member of task forces and advisory committees, Arun's team instigates, creates and directs visions, ideas and solutions to ensure good urban design and an appealing, sustainable public environment in Portland.

He has over 25 years of international experience as an urban designer in practice and academia. Trained as an architect, he holds two masters degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Urban Design Program. He is an invited teacher, critic and speaker at universities, public agencies and development groups around the world. Prior to Portland, he taught for over 10 years at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arun also mentors development issues and creative thinking in several international forums. He was recently elected the US representative to the International Federation of Housing and Planning's (IFHP) Bureau. Professionally and philosophically, Arun continues to search for better balances between the environmental, economic and ethical dimensions of sustainability.


Sue: Sarasota, FL
Susan Marcus, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Argosy University/Sarasota. She teaches courses in research methods, survey design and statistics. She earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth TX, with special emphasis in Multivariate Statistics and Social Psychology. Since 1992, Dr. Marcus has co-directed a business research consultancy for business and non-profit organizations. Projects have included national, local, and regional surveys, program evaluations, focus groups and strategic planning.

Dr. Marcus's research and writing focus on work/life balance and resilience. Her work initially focused on program evaluation of alcohol and chemical dependency programs, studying the impact of social support and other 'extra-treatment' factors on various outcomes. Her academic publications focused on the methodological challenges of conducting applied research.


Andre: New Jersey
Andre Paquin is an independent business consultant specializing in branding, identity, communication and design. With close to 30 years experience in the business of creating and building strong brands, Andre has had the unique point-of-view from the client side of the business and the agency side. Half his career has been as the client working for large Fortune 500 companies like Wells Fargo, Kraft General Foods, RJR Nabisco and International Playtex. Andre has also worked on Madison Avenue for corporate identity and branding giants Interbrand, FutureBrand, Brand Union and Siegel+Gale.

Andre's brand and marketing acumen, along with his design and business sensitivity make him a wonderful aesthetic strategic communicator. Andre can create brand strategies by getting to the heart of what drives the business vision, understanding customer motivations and recognizing what the competitive landscape lacks so as to best position his clients for success. Brand strategies are the foundation for every successful business and Andre lays the groundwork for the creative articulation of that brand essence, bringing to life the concept that will set his client's business apart.

Not only can he create that sound strategy, he can implement it as well. He has implemented brand and corporate identity programs for companies like Texaco, AT&T, BMW and MasterCard International around the world. Aside from his deep career experience with top Wall Street companies and world-class Madison Avenue agencies, Andre boasts an impressive list of clients including Siemens Corporation, Time Inc., Wolters Kluwer Health, Genentech and Radian Group to name a few.


Ephraim: New York City
Ephraim Diament has 20 years of international experience working in technology, media development, and branding. At 21 he helped form the large format projection industry, by being a founder of Adimation Media Laboratories, working for many global brands. As a senior consultant for Tokyo's NEC, he advised their clients on the early adoption of technology-based branding systems. At Unicast Communications, he helped develop their communications strategy by analyzing the effectiveness of their online advertising formats.


Paul: Chicago, IL
Paul Hydzik grows brand value. As a brand marketer and award-winning creative leader, Paul has more than 15 years of experience driving business success from start-ups to blue chips. His strategic resume covers all aspects of B2B and B2C branding from go-to-market to consumer insight to identity development and all forms of marketing communication. Paul's ability to listen, clarify brand essence and communicate its value across every audience cultivates the conversations that build brands. His understanding of business makes his campaigns exceptionally well connected to objectives. Plus, Paul's big-agency creative leadership experience and hands-on talents enable him to implement brilliant, strategically-compelling ideas and creative solutions.

Clients include Ameritech, Accenture, Brady-Wyte, CitiCorp, CNA Insurance, Compaq, Dial, Fleet Bank, Ford Truck, Glidden Paint, Hallmark, Heavenly Sweets, Heller Financial, Kraft, McDonald's, Microsoft, Motorola, NEC, General Motors, Oscar Mayer, Target, United Airlines, Sunwheel, Tioga Energy, U.S. Postal Service and Visa. An adjunct professor at Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart Graduate School of Business, Paul teaches a strategic approach to integrated marketing communi-cations. Corporate and agency leaders have also enjoyed his fun and engaging presentation style in strategic brand marketing, change management and breakthrough brainstorming seminars.


Lynn: Chicago, IL
Jennifer Lynn has over eight years of professional Internet marketing experience working in the high technology, financial, hospitality, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, not-for-profit and retail ecommerce sectors. She presently specializes in the field of web analytics marketing, ecommerce, and management consulting. She is presently the Managing Director of a boutique web analytics consultancy serving global clients from medium and large scale organizations. Within the field of web analytics, Lynn works in helping higher level organizations define their metrics strategies, create concepts, define problems, conduct web analysis, problem solve and execute. She is proficient in creating and delivering successful short, mid and long-term web strategies. She is passionate in utilizing web analytics data to drive smart business decisions.

She has strong entrepreneurial, visionary, creative, organizational, operational and leadership skills. She harbors a passion for driving analytical insights for online marketing and ecommerce, working with great teams, and has ability to bridge the gap between executive non-technical staff and technical staff within the field of web analytics. Jennifer enjoys being a problem solver and educator to contribute experience, expertise and delivering successful results to her clients.

Lynn has experience working with over 100 technology and corporate clients including: Business.com, Childrens Memorial Hospital, Kimpton Hotels, StyleDash, Compcierge USA, Reilly & Associates, Marriott Hotels, PredictWallStreet.com, 4Wow, TagTooga, Inc.com, Magicyellow.com, TheKnot.com, Accenture, Renaissance Chicago, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Pampered Chef, Quest Diagnostics, Allscripts, San Mateo Regional Network, Kimpton Hotels, Embassy Suites, and Avendra Program.


Eliot: New York City
Eliot Sela has twenty years of experience in Manhattan’s corporate identity field. He has worked collaboratively in many environments, developing new brands for UPS, American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Exxon-Mobil, Hilton, The Port of Long Beach and other major corporations. He has a long history of work with several Intel teams designing brands that project Intel’s continuously advancing technologies.

Eliot’s strong architectural and mathematical thinking combined with unique design ideas and expert knowledge of major graphic applications bring a dimension of innovative precision to his work and assist his teammates in moving from initial design concept stages through final deliverable art creation. He has a meticulous attention to details and a strong belief in maintaining client satisfaction.

Brought up and educated in South America, Asia and Europe, Eliot possesses a broad knowledge of historical, geographical and political data, which enables him to independently design and produce major publications for the United Nations.


Melinda: Boulder, Colorado
Melinda Currier is a branding and naming strategist, marketing manager, account director/planner, and writer with broad diversity in branding, design, naming and marketing, across all market segments and with specialization in IT and B2B. She is a principal in the branding and marketing consultancy, riverrun partners in Colorado. Melinda was previously a Corporate Brand Strategist at IBM, a Creative Director for the design practices within the leading firms: Young&Rubicam, Chiat/Day, Landor, Walker Group (now Fitch), and Lippincott.

She received her Masters from Harvard in 1993, in design theory and practice, linguistics and philosophy; did extensive coursework in design, landscape architecture and biology at UCLA; marketing and business administration at NYU; photography at the University of Delaware; and holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Melinda has received awards from: American Center for Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Industrial Designers Society, The Lumen Award (the top lighting design award), The New York and Los Angeles Art Directors Clubs, Society of Typographic Artists, and various medical societies. Her work has been published in Architectural Record, Abitare (Italy), California, Domus (Italy), Harvard GSD Quarterly, Idea (Japan), Industrial Design, The Los Angeles Times, and various medical publications. She has lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Montana, Cambridge, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam, and rural Costa Rica.