Mary Franck is a Senior Designer at ESI Design in New York. With a passion for combining spatial design with content to create experiences, in both virtual and physical spaces, Mary Franck is an accomplish creative technologist and experiential designer. Franck utilizes her skills and experiences to converge on subjects such as real-time content and immersive experiences.
Envoy is a connected customer experience consultancy that builds brand and digital experiences. For over a decade, Envoy has helped partners put their competitive advantage at the forefront through imaginative and innovative unified experiences across every touchpoint, providing leadership in brand strategy, digital commerce, websites, digital products, digital environments, and marketing and media.
Neeta Verma is Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design at the University of Notre Dame. A graphic designer, story teller and a social advocate by profession, she has over 25 years of professional experience working exclusively for not-for-profits, museums and cultural institutions in New York, Albuquerque and India. As a graphic designer, she describes her role as a catalyst within a societal context, a solution finder, and an experience creator.
Sara brings two decades of experience managing large-scale integrated experiential projects for museums and cultural institutions. She currently serves as Senior Manager of Integrated Media at the Obama Foundation. Sara brings expertise in the areas of exhibition design project direction, studio leadership and management, web and digital content strategy and interactive and emerging technology. Sara holds an M.A. in Museum Studies with a concentration in Exhibition Development from The George Washington University.
Over the past fifteen years, Jack Spilberg has applied his passion for emerging technologies and experience design in leadership roles at a wide range of groundbreaking companies. He was a founding member of a cutting-edge artificial intelligence startup, and has built and led business development and marketing teams for innovation agencies, technology companies, and major media organizations. At Stimulant, Jack focuses on developing successful partnerships with our quickly growing roster of clients, as well as leading our marketing efforts.
As the Executive Producer at Stimulant, Sherri Nevins’ interest in human motivation drives her passion for storytelling and desire to create meaningful user experiences. Formerly a producer and writer for Antenna International, her former projects have won seven industry awards for outstanding interpretation and user experience design in digital media. Sherri continued on to produce large scale, gesture driven, interactive technologies for museums, trade shows and healthcare.
Josh Santangelo set out on a career in a creative field but quickly turned to technology, becoming Stimulant’s first example of the “creative technician” that has become the hallmark of our engineering team. A seventeen-year agency veteran, he has combined a keen aesthetic sense with a commitment to rigorous engineering practice on countless interactive projects. Josh is responsible for all of Stimulant’s engineering efforts, including software development, testing, deployment, and support.
Tim Larson is the President and a Design Principal at Downstream, a global leader in the development of unique, digitally augmented environments and public spaces.