Team

Adam’s design skills and uncanny ability to remain calm under pressure have led him to the perfect job handling all aspects of our clients’ website needs. He will be your primary point of contact for all things web, both during the buildout and after your site launches.

Fun Facts: Adam has worked as a dairy farmer, ballroom dance instructor, in childcare, as a bartender, lumberjack, a full-time drummer, and as a caving guide.

Andy has been deep in the design world for over 10 years working as a designer, print manager, creative director, and design director. He helped build a marketing agency startup and has had his hand in every facet of marketing throughout his career. His passion truly lies in the strategy of design – taking an idea, dreaming of its possibilities and seeing it come to life.

Fun Facts: When not elbow deep in Adobe, Andy loves to research and learn, sitting down at his piano, a good (or bad) sci-fi movie, camping year-round (winter too!), and enjoying a big bowl of ice cream. Despite how painful it may be, he is a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Vikings.

Brad is a coder with a design mind and a designer with a code mind. He is a WordPress guru and builds and maintains multiple sites for KBD clients.

Fun Facts: Brad is an urban gardener and our resident foodie. He also has a ton of houseplants.

Born in San Francisco and raised at the north end of Silicon Valley, Gino is very familiar with the Bay Area vibe and cultural and business climate. Throughout Gino’s 27 year career he has handled many time-sensitive projects for clients small and large. With a laser-focus on service and finding creative ways to bring print projects to their timely conclusion, he has a relentless pursuit of meeting clients’ needs and often exceeding them.

Fun Facts: Gino loves history, really comfortable shoes, 70s music and world-class Italian food starting with great pasta dishes. When not working, you will find Gino, reading, hiking, relaxing with a great bourbon and he loves being near the ocean or in the mountains.

Jim honed his design skills in the food, fintech, and e-commerce industries before joining the KBD team. Jim has over ten years of experience in branding, UI, motion, photography, and front-end development, and he loves the challenge of learning new disciplines and solving creative problems.

Fun Facts: Jim is an avid musician, amateur woodworker, occasional road biker, and former band geek. On weekends, Jim can be found on a trail, in a tent, or somewhere by the water with his wife, 1-year-old son, yellow lab, and golden retriever.

Josh has 22+ years of experience in the creative industry with a specialization in visual, digital, interactive, and motion design. Throughout his career, he has held various positions as an art director, creative director, and senior designer. He is passionate about helping a client along their storytelling journey through branding, messaging, and visual design systems.

Fun Facts: Some of his hobbies include going to Disneyland with his four kids and wife whom he has been happily married to for 15 years. He also enjoys CrossFit and rooting for the Los Angeles Dodgers – Bleed blue!

Katie has led marketing and design initiatives for enterprise startups and venture funds since starting the firm in 2001, and has helped bring dozens of startups from seed to exit. Katie holds a BFA from Georgetown University, is the founder of the Georgetown Technology Alliance and recipient of the university’s Gaston Award. She serves on the boards of a number of non-profits and early stage startups and speaks regularly as an advocate for women in the technology community.

Fun Facts: Katie loves to bake and spends most of her free time reading cookbooks and testing recipes in the quest for the perfect cookie. Proud fan of 70s music and retro TV shows, much to the chagrin of her husband and two kids.

Lauren is a thoughtful designer, a great listener who is adept at pulling ideas together into a cohesive whole — with a touch of whimsy, when called for. This tree-hugging, bird-obsessed Pittsburgh native has worked in advertising, publishing, package design and landscape design, and brings over 20 years of design experience to our team.

Fun Facts: Lauren spends most of her free time birding, hiking, hunting for mushrooms, gardening with native plants, growing vegetables and trying to make the world just a smidge more beautiful and safer for people and wildlife. Warning: Her pet pigeon, Simon, retains veto power over Lauren’s creative output.

A team-oriented designer, Matt loves to think outside the box and collaborate with his teammates to come up with killer designs. He brings a client-comes-first attitude and enjoys going the extra mile for them. Matt is a multi-award-winning designer with nearly 20 years of experience, working primarily in the food, retail, health & wellness, and technology industries.

Fun Facts: Matt apologizes in advance for his cat, George.

Matt develops creative strategies, executes design, and supervises a wide range of projects for KBD clients. In his 25- year career he has directed design teams on many successful projects including new company launches, corporate & product branding, web design, print collateral programs and event design. Throughout Matt’s career he has focused on branding hightouch, boutique corporate incentives, large-scale user conferences, corporate meetings/forums and in early 2020 pivoted to virtual events.

Matt has created memorable solutions for Align Technology (Invisalign), Alcatel-Lucent, BCD Meetings & Incentives, Earth Fare, Gap Inc., Genesys Labs, Gigamon Inc., Health Evolution, Intelsat, IT Revolution, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Whole Foods Market and Zymergen.

Fun Facts: Matt is not fun.

An early curiosity for graphic design and development started in high school, where Rob was able to build websites and design in computer class. After graduation he jumped into the professional field, learning from creative directors, and early mistakes–luckily nothing catastrophic.

From his entry-level days to his senior roles–he’s led projects for Fortune 500 companies and won awards. Each project never leaves him satisfied, he has a desire to expand his knowledge in multiple fields, and general understanding.

Fun Facts: Rob loves learning Python algorithms/Machine Learning for trading on the stock market, he used to aggressive rollerblade at the skatepark (aka fruitbooter), and he is a cigar aficionado.

Sam is a versatile Web Developer, who has been working in the Backend and Frontend. Throughout his career, he has helped to develop web projects for different types of companies. Sam is passionate about giving his best to the project and the team, he likes to research the latest trends in web development and see how to apply them to the projects. Sam has been curious about technology and computers since he was a child.

Fun Facts: He loves listening to the Business War from Wondery podcast, and his favorite TV Show is Lie To Me. Moreover, he enjoys traveling with his wife meeting new places and doing outdoor activities. In his free time, he likes learning about new tech and programming languages.

Stacey holds a B.A. in environmental engineering from Montana Tech and is a natural problem-solver and storyteller. Prior to KBD, she founded multiple companies and was a founding partner of a micro-accelerator for female founders. She is well-versed in startup methodologies and human-centric marketing strategies and loves helping clients craft digital stories.

Fun Facts: Stacey loves spending time outdoors hiking, biking, paddle boarding, and lives in the beautiful state of Montana. She has 3 cats Babadook, Tabouleh, and Monkey – each was named after revealing their personalities. And yes, Tabouleh is the foodie.

Steve has been developing websites professionally since 1999 and as a hobby since the days of Internet Explorer 3. Steve holds a Masters of Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  Steve is the creator of ACF Builder, a popular open-source PHP library for defining WordPress Advanced Custom Fields quickly in code.

Steve gets excited by all new tech, which is part of the reason he loves being a web developer so much. The field is constantly evolving. He is also addicted to the instant gratification of creating something and watching it come to life, or finally solving that seemingly impossible problem.

Fun Facts: When not working, Steve likes to bike and play games with his wife and their two boys from their massive Nintendo and board game library.

Hailing from Los Angeles, Tess is slowly adjusting to the weather in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Critical Theory and Social Justice. After graduating in 2016, she worked as a paralegal for an IP firm focused on tech start-ups in California. She quickly realized that the legal field was not for her and is now thrilled to be surrounded by creative minds at KBD!

Fun Facts: When she’s not working, Tess spends her time making pottery, rock climbing, tending to house plants, and walking her rambunctious pup, Juno.