Designer

Producer

Tim Barker is a senior video producer at LHC who claims to have “never had a real job”, and is “good at Internet stuff”. Tim began his career as an assistant on feature films such as Argo, and Silver Linings Playbook. He was a director of photography for VICE news on HBO, and has produced countless commercials over the span of his decade-long “career”.

CFO

Account Director

Mallory is an experienced marketing strategist and manager with a successful track record of implementing complex marketing strategies in fast-paced, high-growth environments. With over 15 years of experience, her most recent position was at Amazon Pay, where she served as the Global Head of Marketing Operations. Before that role, she specialized in launching, resourcing, and scaling marketing programs targeted at creating demand for both B2B and B2C audiences, both at Amazon and other SaaS companies. Her expertise includes integrated cross-channel demand generation, account-based marketing, event management, and brand strategy. Mallory is known for her innovative thinking, operational expertise, and her capacity to balance overarching strategy with a focus on tactical details. Mallory lives in Chicago with her husband and their two dogs, Stevie (Nicks) and Baker.

Animator

Content Strategist

Project Manager

Miriam is an experienced, solutions-oriented program and project manager with a background in communications, digital marketing, and creative team operations. With over 15 years of experience, she has measurable program successes for clients spanning the government, venture capital, tech, and non-profit advocacy spaces. Her most recent role was at IBM, where she managed the restructuring and redesign of the user journey and visual experience for all IBM product offerings, as well as any new acquisitions. Her expertise includes integrated project management, digital and web content creation, and cross-functional team operations. Miriam is known for her organizational prowess, team leadership, problem-solving, and ability to play a key role in both strategy and implementation. She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband, son and French bulldog, Pepper.

Social Strategist

Laura Brothers is a writer and editor with more than a decade of experience spanning journalism, branded content, and content marketing. She believes in clean, engaging copy and loves the Oxford comma and em dash equally. Hailing from Western New York, she now lives in Brighton, UK (but travels often).

Head of Content Strategy

Jesse Brukman is a recovering lifestyle writer and editor specializing in travel & hospitality and all things food & drink. Most recently, he was the Executive Director of Content & Strategy at Time Inc., overseeing digital media and branded content campaigns for brands such as Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and Departures. In previous lives, he built and operated a branded content studio at Thrillist, was the founding editor of successfully acquired BSC Media, and interviewed Lebron James at a press event for a tractor company. He lives in the West Village with his much smarter book editor wife and only a little bit smarter daughter.

Head of Demand Gen & Revenue Marketing

Kelsey is a digital marketing and operations leader with 15 years of expertise in paid media, demand generation, and sales and marketing operations. Kelsey honed her technical skills and pioneered digital marketing functions at a series of B2B and B2B2C digital marketplaces, including LivingSocial (acquired by Groupon), WeddingWire (acquired by The Knot) and Axiom Global. Her expertise includes search engine marketing and optimization, cross-channel lead acquisition strategies, and the setup and maintenance of Sales/Marketing tech stacks that enable business intelligence. Kelsey, a lifelong East Coaster, is a recent transplant to Santa Barbara, CA and loves exploring the West Coast with her husband and dog, Maverick.

Director, Editorial

Langa is a writer, editor, and strategist. Her background in literary publishing nurtured her passion for the craft of storytelling. As a strategist, Langa distills industry and internet trends into blog posts, social campaigns, and everything in between. At LHC, she leads SEO and social teams to create compelling narratives across platforms. Outside of LHC, she can be found apologizing for absconding from NYC to LA (and, worse, liking it).

Partner

Guy Cimbalo a partner at Lighthouse Creative who focuses on content. While Head of Content for Uncubed, he created branded video and editorial content for brands like IBM, Amazon, and Buzzfeed. Earlier in his career, he created the first official web presence for “The Simpsons”, and edited the A&F Quarterly, Abercrombie & Finch’s groundbreaking magalogue. His experience in digital content dates back to before it was even called “content”, and his freelance writing has appeared in New York, Entertainment Weekly, Playboy, The Village Voice, Complex, and Maxim.

Senior Strategist

Web Developer

E. James Ford been working on the web since 1997. His first job involved buildin g websites for tourism boards in the Caribbean and Africa. Since that time he has developed websites and online strategies for many companies in the non-profit, higher education, governmental, creative arts, and fashion/nightlife industries. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his dog Freya. Hmmm

Partner

Heather Freiser is Lighthouse Creative’s VP of Client Service. She has more than 15 years of experience building award-winning content and social programs for enterprise brands including Bank of America, Marriott, Amazon, and more. She was instrumental in the development of the JPMorgan Chase News & Stories initiative, Johnson & Johnson’s revolutionary employer brand platform, Shine, and spearheaded episodic video content for brands like Hilton, Nike, and Stop & Shop. She’s a journalist at heart, having previously led Bloomberg Television’s flagship closing bell show, Street Smart. Among her other accomplishments are running a literary-themed restaurant in Long Island, being mom to three amazing kids, and once getting into a fight with Elon Musk.

Copy Editor

Lesley Gibson is a writer, editor, and content strategist with more than 15 years of experience creating marketing communications for universities and arts organizations, including NYU, Northwestern University, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, among others. She lives in Harlem with her husband and their aggressively affectionate toddler, where she spends most of her free time watching old episodes of Frasier. People love to tell her that she “asks a lot of questions.”

Social Media and Content Strategist

I’m a full stack marketer with 13 years of experience in content strategy and management, content operations, social media strategy, brand storytelling, and integrated marketing for both B2B and B2C audiences across tech, hardware, and entertainment sectors.

My proven track record includes strategic multi-channel social media and content management for tech, OTT media, e-commerce marketplaces, and community platforms with large audience sizes of 100k to 10MM. I excel in creating compelling narratives for both consumer and enterprise audiences, balancing B2B thought leadership with B2C engagement strategies.

I’ve made significant impacts at Google, Amazon, Indiegogo, Refinery29, 500px, and Fandor, developing expertise across both B2B and B2C contexts. I was also a finalist for Best Use of Instagram at the 2016 Shorty Awards for a social media campaign with BBC Earth.

Video Editor

Marika Hacking is a New York based editor, director, cinematographer, illustrator and co-founder of the production company, Unarmed Media. Along with her commercial editing work for a diverse range of clients from Verizon to NPR, Marika has traveled the world shooting narrative and documentary film. She is passionate about storytelling and bringing to life the personal journeys and issues faced by underrepresented people and communities.

Designer

Project Manager

Nina Hazard has more than a decade of experience working in media, marketing, and project management in the technology and finance industries. Prior to joining Lighthouse Creative as the lead project manager, she worked at a mutual fund and a family office managing prospective investors and deal flow. Prior to her time in financial services, she was a senior account executive at Outcast, in San Francisco, and RacePoint, in Boston, both technology and healthcare PR agencies. Nina graduated from the University of Texas when South by Southwest was still just a music festival.

Co-Founder

John Hazard is a content strategist and the co-founder of Lighthouse Creative Group. He is the former VP of Enterprise Services at Contently, where he was an early employee who helped design the software experience and built the Contently Freelancer network. John has led content strategy engagements for global brands, including JPMorgan Chase, Philips, Sallie Mae, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He studied history at Rutgers University but ended up as a journalist when he took a weekend job writing obituaries for a local paper and fell in love with newsrooms.

Developer

Developer

Senior Designer

Director, Editorial

Dasha is an editor and writer with more than two decades of experience creating content. She started off as a humble print journalist, then turned to broadcasting and spent eight years as a BBC News producer covering revolutions, wars, politics, and a handful of happier topics. Before joining LHC, Dasha rekindled her passion for coding and helped tech startups and established brands translate their innovations into plain English.

Designer

Content Strategist

Kenzo Nakawatase is a creative content specialist at LHC who for 2+ years has been responsible for a range of B2B marketing initiatives as an editor, copywriter and project manager. He specializes in crafting customized content in a range of formats: blogs, emails, white papers, ad copy and social media. Previous to LHC he had an eclectic professional background, most recently spending time as the director of The Lenfest Center, a non-profit community center that provided programming and services to young people and their families. His work in media includes time at Comcast, on-air and website management for community radio stations, and the requisite blogging of the mid 2000’s. He graduated from UMass-Amherst with a BA in history and a minor in Understanding Massholes.

Bookkeeper

Alison has more than a decade of bookkeeping experience in the hospitality and construction industry. Like most great bookkeepers, she also has a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. She lives by the beach with her husband Rich, son Vincent, daughter Giada, and dog Sioux. Alison is a big fan of music, comedy, Stephen King, and margaritas.

Senior Project Manager

Yanina has more than 15 years of project management, creative operations, product management, and general operations experience. Prior to working for LHC, Yanina worked for BDG and was responsible for the creative operations for brands such as Bustle, Elite Daily, Nylon, Scarymommy, Fatherly and The Dad and more. As an operations leader, Yanina knows how to support creative excellence while managing to the needs of the business and her clients. When Yanina is not busy optimizing workflows, she loves engaging her colleagues in pop culture discussions, including, but not limited to any Real Housewives franchise.

Account Manager, Head of Photo

Jac is a photographer, creative director, and senior project manager. A multidisciplinary visual artist, she has experience leading teams and creating innovative visuals for clients such as Baxter Street Gallery, Peloton, and more. She anchors every project in beauty, creativity, and the understanding that a brand’s visual identity keeps it moving forward. At LHC, she has brought this insight (and her camera lenses) to shoots in Buenos Aries, Rio, Dallas, Long Island, and more — including LHC merch campaigns in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. You can also find her running off the clock, or enjoying live music (probably Fred Again..) and documenting life on film.

Social Strategist

Producer

Francesco Saviano has been working in New York’s film industry for fifteen years as a writer, director, producer and cinematographer for both studio productions and his own independent production company. His films have appeared in premiere festivals both in the United States and abroad, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and the New York Television Festival in NYC. Through his production company Unarmed Media, Francesco has been directing and producing films and commercials all over the world. He is currently directing Out of the Ring, a feature documentary on professional boxers and the long-shot nature of becoming a champion in one of the most unforgiving of all sports.

Senior Designer

My focus over the years has been tackling steep learning curves when implementing new technology in my designs. I began my journey in the creative industry in advertising, where I developed my 3D skills and explored AR and VR practices. Next, I developed a personal interest in web3 through the rise of NFT’s, leading me to a role as a senior designer at a social token Web3 startup. There, I delved deeper into 3D animation, web3 graphic design and motion graphics.

Writer

Tamara (wearer of many hats) is a writer, storyteller and educator, with a background in the performing arts and learning design. At LHC, Tamara proudly wears a copywriter cap and pens SEO pieces, blog posts, guides, and more on tech, design, and finance. Before joining LHC, Tamara served as the Creative Content Director for startup Supernow, producing, writing, directing (and occasionally performing in) super awesome children’s edutainment content. Out in the wild, she’s a multi-hyphen creative who writes movies and poems, reads fortunes in coffee grains, and collects languages to add to the six she speaks fluently.

Dev Manager

General Counsel

Digital Strategist

Senior Designer

Designer

Brianna is a designer and multidisciplinary creative with a background in architectural design. She has a keen eye for detail and a passion for crafting compelling design narratives. Her education in architecture has allowed her to hone skills in spatial design, composition and problem-solving and this foundation has equipped her with a deep understanding of form, function and aesthetics which she integrates in her design work. She takes inspiration from textiles, music, Japanese and Scandinavian design, and, of course, architecture. When she’s not designing, she enjoys sewing, film photography, tennis, running and interior design.

Head of Design

Rich Tong is a designer and developer with more than 20 years of experience building digital products and companies. Most recently, he was the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of P00LS, a platform empowering creators to create their own cryptocurrencies. Previously, he also founded Fohr, one of the world’s first influencer marketing platforms, and Weardrobe, a fashion community that was acquired by Google. He’s also built products for a variety of teams and individuals, including SKIMS, Amazon, Andela, Chanel, The New York Times, and more.