Team

  • Simple Truth Team

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