My Portfolio: www.brandingbycontext.com Conceptual. B2C and B2B. I help companies connect with their customers on an emotional level and sell more effectively through strategic brand-personified content. Good strategy drives great creative. I have managed an in-house advertising department for an international lifestyle-action-sports brand and I have worked within numerous traditional ad agencies and design firms as a senior art director/designer throughout my career. I think with passion and sell with emotion. I have acquired many clients since founding my company in 2005, all of whom represent my lifestyle, passion for action-sports, love of art and music and inspire my need to be creative and live young at heart. I have been a guest speaker at the University of Texas, Savanna College of Art and Design, Laguna College of Art and Design and on NPR’s MarketPlace. I love being a mentor and I have tailored a respectable and solid creative career doing what I love most. My other superpowers? I can make beer, shape a surfboard and bowl a 200 (off league).