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Nasya Kamrat and Ricki Pasinelli spent years watching the same pattern repeat, and recently built MOT: a new growth operating system designed to fix what one-thing-at-a-time consulting never could. Nasya is a recovering founder and CEO with twenty years across brand, story, and experience. She sees the pattern before the spreadsheet confirms it. Ricki spent two decades next to CEOs making sure the...

David McGavran has been leading Maxon as CEO since 2018, following a successful two-decade tenure at Adobe. As Adobe's director of engineering for professional audio and video, he spearheaded industry-transforming projects that empowered film editors, broadcasters, and post-production houses globally. At Maxon, David has driven strategic acquisitions, including Red Giant, Redshift, and ZBrush, sig...

Matt Cornelison is storyteller, entertainer and founder of Fungi Media. He helps complex B2B organizations make content their audience actually wants. His sillier accolades include U.S. Nationl Air Guitar Champion and Robert Goulet Mustached American of the Year :) https://www.fungimedia.com/ Enjoyed this conversation and want to reach out to Valerie via email? Join RevCommunity, the society of ex...

Valerie Madden is a creator, strategist, and innovator blending over two decades of storytelling expertise with the transformative power of AI to craft emotionally resonant experiences that captivate, connect, and inspire. A senior creative leader behind 350+ brand identity campaigns for Amazon MGM Studios and NBCUniversal, shaping culturally defining eras like NBC’s Must See TV and Prime Video’s...

Drew Norton became the top sales representative in a company of over 100 reps, generating more than $4 million in annual revenue. He went on to build and lead a sales team that produced over $20 million in annual revenue. With more than a decade of experience leading and training hundreds of business owners, leaders, and sales professionals, Drew has worked closely with sales leaders, entrepreneur...

Radim Malinic is a creative director, designer and bestselling author. Living and working in South West London, he runs Brand Nu Studio , an award winning branding and creative studio + Brand Nu Books an independent publishing imprint.  Before finding his calling in the creative industry, Czech born Malinic was an ice hockey player, a bassist in death metal bands, an indie DJ, music journalist and...

Jane Morgan is a filmmaker, business owner and spiritual babe. She's in a big transition at the moment finding her way to mixing business and spirit, using the pen and the microphone as the way through. The discussion goes through her extraordinary career trajectory with themes of intentionality, personal calling, and navigating significant life transitions with courage and optimism. Janethedirect...

Bart Hendrikx's journey transitions media, entertainment, and global strategy. His expertise spans feature films (e.g., Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and brand activations (Sonos x Gorillaz). He advised major clients like 20th Century Fox and played a crucial role in launching director Ridley Scott’s European office in Amsterdam. Based in Amsterdam, he also maintains his influential platform, AskTheRightQ...

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Curt Doty propelled two entertainment marketing agencies to 8 figure growth and worked with over 50 Fortune 500 companies, Curt has a proven track record. A former NBC Universal creative executive, Curt is an award-winning brander and marketer. His sweet spot of innovation has been uniting the worlds of design, content and technology. His legacy lies in branding and marketing across various busine...

Lee Hunt is a strategist and industry thought leader for media companies across the globe. His success in launching and positioning entertainment brands, in addition to his groundbreaking work in audience management and competitive analysis, have set many of the standards for our industry. Lee began his career on the client side in the 1980s, launching, branding and executive producing at Lifetime...

Wesley ter Haar is a co-founder and the Chief AI Officer at Monks. Now in year 25, he’s helped grow the company from a scrappy production shop from Amsterdam into a global leader in creative, tech and now AI. With 7000 people working across timezones in 33 countries, the Monks are regarded for high quality work and relentless innovation, and were recently named Adweek's first ever AI agency of the...

Alex James has spent the last 12 years helping B2B service businesses across the globe become experts at conveying their expertise. He believes the go-to strategies of the 2010s, like niching down, solving problems and sharing ideas are no longer enough. Because in a post-AI world (where output is cheap & everyone's a specialist) you can't just share ideas - you need to own one. You need a per...

Melissa Havel is a senior communications strategist, executive advisor, and team coach who blends big-idea thinking with a disciplined approach to problem-solving and delivering results. She has driven powerful storytelling and strategic communications campaigns across owned, earned, and paid channels for organizations of all sizes, drawing on her extensive experience as a senior director at Portl...

Mark Jones is an accomplished educator, producer, and author, known for bridging the worlds of culture, technology, and education. As the Dean of the Faculty of Animation, Art, and Design at Sheridan College and former Director at Seneca Film Institute, Mark has dedicated over 25 years to empowering the next generation of creatives. His book, The Starving Artist Myth , challenges long-standing ste...

Héctor Ayuso has spent the last 30 years chasing ideas and making them real. Call him an artist, filmmaker, creative director, storyteller, or just a guy who can't sit still—labels don’t matter, doing does. From Spain to Mexico, Italy to the U.S., he’s built studios, taught, spoken on stages, and created projects that live outside the usual boxes. For nearly 25 years, he founded and shaped one of...

Marcel Petitpas is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability. In his work as a speaker, podcast host, and consultant, specializing in Agency Profitability Optimization, he's helped thousands of agencies, consultancies, and professional services firms worldwide measure the right metrics and improve their profitability. He’...

Mandi Ellefson transformed her life from battling $175k in debt to amassing a multi-million dollar net worth before hitting 40. As the visionary behind Hands-Off CEO, Mandi isn’t just another success story; she’s a lifeline for consulting agency owners drowning in the day-to-day. Her magic? Transforming million-dollar agencies into scalable enterprises with minimal CEO dependency. Mandi has propel...

Cecilia Owens is an esteemed finance and operations executive with over 20 years of progressive experience in financial reporting, budgeting / forecasting, strategic planning, cash management, business operations, HR oversight, and business relationship management. Cecilia is currently the Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer at Grandview Entertainment, a renowned management company t...

Tony Kadillak has spent 20 years in branding and promotion, servicing today's most recognizable entertainment and sports brands. Currently EP at Versus, he’s been responsible for supporting the strategic growth of his agency teams, while focusing on key clients to drive the value of design-led thinking to their bottom lines. For over ten years, Carson Hood has played a crucial role as the executiv...

Join Esther and Tim for the DDD Catalyst Think Tank at DDD Milan this October. https://ddd.live/programs/catalyst-think-tank ​Esther Weinberg is a business growth accelerator that equips executives in high-growth media and technology industries to create game-changing breakthroughs, increase profitability in declining markets and create successful and sustainable“portable” virtual cultures with ex...

This is a recording from RevThink's The Weekly Briefing from August 7th, 2024.  This discussion was followed by a Q&A which you can watch here:  https://community.revthink.com/c/the-weekly-briefing/resilience-in-chaotic-times-strategies-for-economic-shifts-d3d6ea28-b832-4e00-bf7b-e0aa74fd52d6 Blair Enns is on a mission to change the way creative services are bought and sold the world over. He...

Alana Tompson is a Melbourne cinematographer and the creative director of Said & Done Media. She also hosts a podcast called Said & Undone which interviews creatives about what could be done – and is being done – to increase the diversity of the film, TV, media and advertising industries to make them a more inclusive place. With her career commencing as a camera operator on Animal Planet's...

Kevin Robinson is an award-winning design leader with decades of experience as a director, entrepreneur, executive creative director, strategist, and advisor. Throughout his professional career, Robinson founded and led Juniper Jones, a multidisciplinary studio, and most recently, Creative Dept., a new platform whose mission is to provide access to extremity-vetted talent on a fractional monthly b...

Marlene P. Naicker, a serial fashion entrepreneur and the Founder/Creative Director of MULDOONEYS, epitomizes resilience and innovation. Born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1975, she draws inspiration from influential figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, embodying fearlessness and empathy. Facing adversity head-on, Marlene battled cancer while simultaneously building MULDOONEYS in 200...