Team | 9 You can't put us in a box, agency, firm, shop, band or crew. We rip off the labels so we can find your simple truth like that (snap) and splash it all over the place. Directors Susan Bennett Partner, Executive Creative Director Simple: The leader of our design team and champion of our creative spark; 20-plus years of design experience and industry recognition. Truth: When intuition speaks, listen deeply. > View More Karen Berman Group Account Director Simple: 20 years of creative problem solving; mover and shaper of our account service perspective. Truth: Never underestimate the value of common sense. > View More Mark Drozd Partner, Executive Creative Director Simple: Over 25 yrs writer & ECD experience including FCB in NYC, London and Chicago Truth: Subtleties shout. > View More Rhonda Kokot Managing Director Simple: Answer lady, problem solver, creative collaborator. 16+ years experience in making every client a great client. Well, almost. Truth: For every experience in life, there's an appropriate Simpsons quote. > View More Mande Mischler Account Director Simple: Top shelf agency and marketing consulting experience, degrees from Stanford and Duke, enthusiastic mezzo-soprano, world-class mom. Truth: Be kind, passionate and humble; assume positive intent. > View More Mark Rowland Director, Digital Experience Simple: Making the internets …for politicians, corporations, associations and non-profits. Truth: Why is bad taste ubiquitous? > View More Creatives Mike Altier Associate Creative Director - Voice Simple: Voted trendsetter in high school, M.A. in Advertising/PR, and five years of hard and fast digital experience – hey, it's all good from here. Truth: Nowhere to go but all over the place. > View More Steve Batterson Associate Director of Brand Voice Simple: 10 years crafting sound, fury, rhyme and reason for clients like there's no tomorrow. Truth: If you will it, it is no dream. > View More Frances Close Designer Simple: Design and refine for clients in business, organizations and education. So what's next? Truth: Avoid being idle. > View More Tina Fassett Senior Content Manager Simple: More than 12 years of plaguing copywriters and pleasing clients as an eagle-eyed editor and protector of precise language. Truth: Ad Astra Per Aspera > View More Sharon Heil Associate Creative Director Simple: 20+ yrs writing experience, consumer and B2B. Feeds monster brands even if it means sticking her hands in the cage. Truth: Eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary can speak. > View More Jason Kronewitter Copywriter Simple: Over a decade of delivering deft and daring copy that is distinctly different and disarmingly down to earth. Also a lover of alliteration. Truth: There is no spoon. > View More Drew Larson Senior Designer Simple: Identity to print, advertising to interactive. 17 yrs of using design to help clients make the intangible, tangible. Truth: Live It, Love It, Learn It… Design It! > View More Brea Malloy Design Strategist Simple: BFA + MSIMC. Enhancing business by designing to what they really need. Truth: 1 part right brain/1 part left brain > View More Marcus Norman Associate Creative Director Simple: University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. VSA Partners. Design Kitchen Inc. And finally arriving at my Simple Truth. Truth: The journey is where we find our unique selves. > View More Cesar Orozco Systems Administrator Simple: Apple Certified, but also skilled in web development, print production and color management. Truth: IT can be cool. > View More Mick Pavlik Senior Designer Simple: One of the senior statesmen of our original design team, his experience and outlook belie his youth. Truth: Life needs more orange. > View More Kimberley Terzis Associate Creative Director Simple: One of our brand communication pioneers. No knotty problem too small for this lover of clarity. Truth: Measure twice, cut once. > View More Services Cathy Fields Account Supervisor Simple: Wrangler of clients, creatives, deadlines and budgets, a master of making projects happen, no matter what. Truth: I ♥ the details. > View More Jennifer Halpern Account Supervisor Simple: Eleven-plus years of B2B and B2C marketing experience and she still keeps coming back for more. Truth: Stand in someone else's shoes and lead from their perspective. > View More Elizabeth Johnson-Meisner Account Executive Simple: Applies a range of corporate and non-profit experience, along with compassion and trust, to every client project. Truth: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted. > View More Paul Milinsky Senior Planner Simple: Provides consumer research, strategic knowledge and new ways of discovering rich insights. Truth: Laugh a lot. Laugh often. > View More Jen Pollock Account Supervisor Simple: Helping brands big and small communicate to the world in the ways they should. Truth: Be straightforward. > View More Janice Slater Controller Simple: Over 20 years accounting and finance experience, plus a master's in Kinesiology suggests that astute finance starts with breathing. Truth: Listen more. > View More