PINWHEEL - Key Persons
Hailey has always been captivated by the visual arts - particularly design, illustration and photography. While getting her BFA from BYU-Idaho, she snagged a job with her alma mater in the PR department designing media and marketing materials for the Office of the President, administrative functions, and various academic colleges. She's been freelancing ever since. Hailey has meticulous attention to detail and the ability to push design concepts into new realms while still projecting the original idea.
Job Titles:
- Creative Director, Design
Like many designers, John is hell-bent on teasing apart signal from noise, amplifying the bejeezus out of the signal, then giving it an OCD level of polish. John cut his teeth in myriad small Bay Area agencies as a production artist, designer and art director. John digs working with small agencies and start-ups who set out to make the world a better place. He lives in the Bay Area with his Catalan wife and two beautiful girls
A Senior Designer with extensive experience in brand and visual design systems and responsive web design, Katie has worked at hot design shops like Method (SF), Code + Theory (London), and Meta Design (Zurich). In her spare time, she's helped develop young design talent as an instructor at San Francisco's Academy of Art University. She lives in Portland with her husband and 5-(and a half!) year-old daughter.
Laura got her MFA in fiction at University of Montana and has written one novel that's tucked away on an old hard drive somewhere in her basement. She wishes she still had her 1957 Ford F100 pickup, but fulfilled another vintage vehicle dream when she purchased a 1958 Shasta trailer. She has a crazily talented husband and a 13-year-old daughter who loves skateboarding, tadpoles, and Tyler the Creator. Laura is a one of a kind writer who can easily switch back and forth between marketing writing and journalism and still be excellent at both.
A Suma Cum Laude graduate of Barnard College in New York, Melissa spent most of her professional career in the broadcast and marketing worlds working in production, project management, strategy, client handling, and user interface design. She has managed teams, run departments, led the production of award-winning ad campaigns, produced a syndicated sports call-in show and her first book was published in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Executive Creative Director
Todd is a life-long student of the persuasive arts. An award-winning copywriter with 25 years of experience, he has run creative agencies, worked for them, and managed them on the client side. His agency stays include marquee shops like Ogilvy, Y&R, and JWT and he's had leadership stints at global media companies CBS and Yahoo. And while he's worked on big brands like Coca-Cola, J&J, and Amazon, he very much enjoys launching and growing plucky young startups.