Mitchell B. Fox
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mitch’s career spans 30 years and almost as many publications. He joins 8020 following nearly 20 years at Conde Nast, where he served as the Group President and Publishing Director of Conde Nast Publications, and managed many publications and websites including W, WWD, Golf Digest, Bon Appetit, and the entire Bridal Group including Brides.com. He has also been President and CEO of the Golf Digest Company, Vice President and Publisher of Vanity Fair (where he oversaw five straight years of record growth and the magazine’s best year ever in 1999), and publisher of Details. A native of New York, Mitch enjoys golf, film, and has more frequent flier miles than the rest of 8020 combined.
Devin Poolman
Chief Operating Officer
Devin has experience working with product management and operations at startups including BitTorrent, Grand Central Communications, and Zero G Software (acquired by Macrovision), and he even helped start a European sports management company. He enjoys taking pictures and the occasional rubber of bridge, and gets up to Tahoe as often as possible for the snow and sunshine. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Laura Simkins
Vice President, Consumer Marketing
Repeatedly beaten down by her toddler son, Laura escapes by working as a consumer marketing professional. She was an integral part of Dwell magazine’s circulation success story and has also worked on building audience for Health and Mother Jones. Before finding her true calling she ran a winery, made tacos on Nantucket and worked the window at OTB. She longs to see the white horses of Vienna.
Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in chief, JPG Magazine
Laura Brunow Miner was a self-taught and award-winning designer and hopes to be a self-taught and award-winning editor. While her hobbies conveniently include photography, travel, and the internet, she also enjoys printmaking, Scrabble, collecting UV rays, being in water, watching British television, and grocery shopping.
Lindsay Conerly
East Coast Media Sales Manager
Lindsay’s experience in interactive media sales has brought her to the 8020 team to manage east coast sales from our NYC office. She also moonlights as a professional bridesmaid and wedding attendee. A native of south Mississippi, Lindsay is a graduate of Ole Miss, where she studied psychology, history, and football. She is a dance enthusiast, choreographer, and student.
Seth Familian
Director, Product Management
Seth is an avid traveler, photographer, creative thinker and digital media strategist fascinated with the future of media in a digital world. He has applied that passion to companies big and small—from Apple and Bertelsmann Media Worldwide, to Zinio Systems and Faith Popcorn’s Brainreserve—and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. When not delving into all things digital, you might find Seth snapping photos, binding books, creating bizarre sculptures from binder clips, or indulging in outdoor adventures. That’s why he loves living in the Bay Area.
Devin Hayes
Senior Engineer
Devin has been a tinkerer since day one, taking things apart and putting them back together. He’s been obsessed with the internet since there was one. He’s built hundreds of web sites and applications, contributed years of time and code to the open source community, and continues to study emerging trends and technologies. Devin “cut his teeth” in IT in the financial industry, where he not-so-singlehandedly maintained the health of 26 bank branches and various other sensitive networks. He eventually moved into commercial web development and e-commerce when he realized his long-time obsession was in demand. Devin enjoys analyzing trends, experimenting with new technologies and building “neat stuff.”
Sigmund Naah
Director, Business Development
Having started his career in media planning at the agency formerly known as J. Walter Thompson, Sig was exposed to the buy side of all the major advertising vehicles: TV, radio, print, online and outdoor. Now as a part of the 8020 Publishing team, he can say he has been on the sell side of every one of those vehicles too. A photo enthusiast and wanna-be globetrotter, Sig feels at home with JPG and Everywhere. Though he still longs for the days of sittin’ on the porch with his family, singin’ and dancin’ down in Mississippi.
Jason Schupp
UX Developer
A Chicago native, Jason left his ad agency gig and moved to San Francisco without a job lined up, all on a hunch. Two months later, he began a several-year stint as a web developer for Yahoo! Mobile. When not coding for 8020, he’s probably exploring queer identity, virtual worlds, lo-fi photography, collaborative and pervasive gaming, benign spectacle-making, psychogeography, pirates, or any point where two or more of these intersect.
Alessandra Cellini
Design Intern
Ali grew up in Kenya, and moved to the USA to go to college, where she studied Graphic Design and Photography. She has many obsessions; mostly drawing, singing, dreaming, hippiedom, tattoos, old things, the ’70s, ocean colors and sushi. She would like to meet someone who can do magic.
Christina McNeill
Marketing Intern
Christina’s true passion came to her in the early days of high school and has followed her through her successful and growing career as a photographer. She has won numerous awards, including a 2003 first place award for her documentary “lifestyles of the poor and infamous” from the International Photo Awards, and other awards from IPA & PDN. Christina’s primary love is a Hasselblad 501cm, and she continues to use it regularly for both freelance and personal shoots. When she’s not shooting, you might find her on the soccer field, in an airplane, or interning at 8020.
Paul Cloutier
Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Paul started out in photojournalism and quickly developed a great interest in design for the web. After spending years consulting as a designer he became the managing director of Deepend, an award-winning web consultancy. He later founded Theorem, a design firm specializing in interactive product development and social software. He also worked as the lead designer and architect for Current TV, and brought Surface and Thrasher magazines online.
Rob Kligman
Vice President, Media Sales
Rob’s career includes experience both on the west and east coasts managing sales, marketing, business development and product planning in both mature and start-up organizations. A graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas, Rob is an avid Koi fish collector.
Rannie Balias
Designer
A native of both Houston and Greece, Rannie Balias loves design, fashion, bike-riding, karaoke, and pugs. She last designed for ReadyMade magazine and has a background in Advertising. Rannie’s spirit animal is a wolf.
Mimi Dutta
Creative Director
Born in Kolkata, India and raised in America, Mimi has spent her award-winning career primarily on the two coasts. Her stints in New York City include gigs as art director of Vanity Fair and creative director of Sports Illustrated Women, and during her San Francisco days she’s been creative director of Business 2.0 and Ode Magazine. A graduate of Washington University with a background in architecture, her off-line obsessions include travel, wine, kayaking, and pretty much every police procedural on television.
Christi Ginger
Marketing Associate
Christi grew up in Austin, Texas before moving to San Francisco for the sea breeze. She studied anthropology and business at UNC-Chapel Hill and enjoys cross-processed photography, gardening, and playing the banjo.
Brian Hunziker
Designer
A design director at Deepend San Francisco and later at Theorem, Bri has designed and developed interactive media for clients ranging from Citibank and Bacardi to Surface Magazine and the Mill Valley Film Festival. He holds a BA in media arts with an emphasis in cinema, and recently took his second BA in Japanese following a year of study in Tokyo. He enjoys taking pictures of typography, and he has a particular fondness for power lines, topographical maps and uneven numbers.
Ryan Matsumura
Front-End Developer
A childhood Legomaniac and skate rat, Ryan’s been building stuff up, only to tear it down to “make improvements” from the early days. Lego and half-pipes have given way to web apps and web sites. His experience spans publishing, advertising and oodles of hands-on web development, culminating in a showcase script that automagically logged his co-worker in so that he wouldn’t get busted by “the man.” Today, Ryan prefers gadgets to Lego (most of the time), his snowboard to his skateboard, and dreams of carving turns on a different hill every day, then going back to the really good ones over and over again.
Kristine Rudkin
Senior Engineer
Kristine brings to us over 15 years of software programming experience in communications and internet applications. Her experience includes system architecture, multi-tiered server applications, website usability, and consumer-facing product development. Along with a six-year stint at Yahoo as a search and travel web developer, Kristine’s career has included engagement with scientific research programs at Lockheed Space Sciences Division and network communications products at Hewlett-Packard. She holds a BA from the University of Wyoming, and an MS in Computer Science from Cal Poly.
Elie Berkowitz
Marketing Intern
Elie is a new graduate with a BS in Business Management and Marketing. Originally from the SF Bay Area, he now lives in New York City. His great passion is theatre and he’s been both performing and behind the scenes since he was very young. When not marketing or performing, Elie can be found in Photoshop; taking photographs; watching movies, TV shows and theatre; reading and interning at 8020 in New York.
Laurel Moorhead
Editorial Intern
Laurel grew up in Berkeley, California and couldn’t bring herself to move very far. Laurel studied Communication at San Francisco State University, which she followed up with post-graduate work in psychology at The New School for Social Research. Laurel has experience working at creative firms on both coasts, and when she’s not writing or planning her next adventure abroad, she enjoys ski weekends in Tahoe, going on bike rides, watching Eddie Izzard stand-up, and eating Thai food.