Creative Partners
at Large

Markus,the founder, CEO and Creative Director of Gull Gotham, is a veteran story smith, brand architect, content producer and creative director equally at home in the communication and entertainment sectors. He is the creator of Hero Branding^® – Brands Make Heroes, and N.O.A.H, and he continues to forge new paths to amplify his singular understanding of new media/now media implications.

Karolis an Austrian-born American entrepreneur and media industry innovator with broad motion picture, broadcast, print, and Internet backgrounds. Karol provides strategic direction and advisory counsel to a diverse slate of clients and partners. His primary focus common to all engagements is –brand architecture, compelling fiction and non-fiction films, transformative entrepreneurship, story R&D, and immersive video centric content applications.

Karol co-founded Cinelan.com, conditionone.com, indiewire.com, RES Magazine, and FILMMAKER Magazine and has produced or executive produced over 40 award winning feature films and music television programs.

Michelleis a veteran of running media-based non-profit organizations, including Games for Change for three years and IFP for 12. She is currently the principal of Run It By Byrd, and is a recipient of the “Made in New York” Career Achievement Award and sits on the board of The Adrienne Shelly Foundation and the Advisory Board for Women at NBCUniversal.

Lance,a storyteller, entrepreneur and pioneer in mixing storytelling and technology, has designed experiences that have reached millions of people via theaters, mobile devices and online. WIRED magazine named him “one of 25 people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” Businessweek named Emmy® nominee Lance Weiler “One of the 18 Who Changed Hollywood.”

He sits on two World Economic Forum steering committees, is Director of Experiential Learning and Applied Creativity at Columbia University where he teaches on storytelling in the 21st Century and is working on a slate of next gen storytelling projects.

Elias, more commonly known by his pseudonym "Acid Phreak", is widely recognized as one of the original computer hackers of the 1980’s and 90’s – a distinction documented in numerous books, articles, and television segments. Decades later, he incubates ideas at the intersection of technology, financial markets, consumer behavior and digital media.

Tedis a writer, editor and producer of content for film, television, print and digital media. He has worked with many leading international brands including GE, IBM, American Express and BMW. Ted has crafted promotions for networks like AMC, USA, Bravo, Nickelodeon, IFC, Vulcan Productions, Smithsonian, NDR (Germany), MTV and VH1.

Ted was Editor-in-Chief of the innovative international Web-TV hub Babelgum with offices in London, Milan and New York. His writing on film and the arts has appeared in The New York Times and The Boston Globe as well as many magazines.

Colinis an artist-designer with an entrepreneurial bent. Metcalf co-founded RESFEST, the world’s first digital entertainment festival, as well as the acclaimed pop culture publications GUM and LEMON. His collaborators and contributors include David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Daft Punk, Stefan Sagmeister and Chip Kidd among others.

His work is the recipient of numerous awards and has been featured in The New York Times, ID, Creative Review and Communication Arts. He works with companies and agencies alike to bring life and vision to a spectrum of communication needs.

Jeffis a pioneer and recognized leader in the fields of brand planning, agency management and entertainment marketing. His perspective on marketing and culture is based on a uniquely faceted set of experiences working on seminal brands with some of the most important and influential forces of modern marketing.

As chairman and chief executive officer of ConstellationNY, LLC he runs a leading Business-to-Business marketing services company providing growth strategies that use branding, communications and content solutions for diversified industrials, financial services, pharmaceutical and media clients.