Advisory Board

Mr. Reese is one of the few people who can boast 35 years of experience in the field of Information Processing. He owned and operated an independent business for 18 years with projects ranging from major mainframe systems to smaller mini-computer-based systems for clients including national banks, a financials reporting and member firm of NASD, wholesale suppliers, and accounting firms. After closing his business for personal reasons, Mr. Reese developed registration systems for Promise Keepers that grew from a few thousand participants to several million in a period of 3 years. For the past 10 years, he has been developing advanced web applications and websites for Lipper, A Thomson Reuters Company.

Ms. Shine is the Chief Operating Officer of Brightgeist Media, Inc. She manages the development and improvement of the systems that deliver Brightgeist's products and services. Prior to joining BGM, Ms. Shine was Director of Business Development for Reuters' HedgeWorld.com, where she led the acquisition transition team and was instrumental in significantly increasing revenue and client retention. Previously, Ms. Shine was Global Business Manager for Lipper Inc., introducing services that yielded 8-figure revenue while bolstering margins.

Mr. Clark is a freelance designer, developer, speaker, and educator. He is a passionate advocate of web standards, code frameworks, and open source/GPL software development, seeing the open-source model of development as promising and far-sighted. As a consultant, he recommends and utilizes such tools to build a solid yet progressive framework for his clients. He lives with his wife, Iryna, and his two children in Northern San Diego.

Ms. Clark is the founder and director of studioFIMKA, a San Diego-based Branding, Marketing, and Design agency. She has managed branding and marketing for several firms, including the visionary biotech Innovive, Inc., and the European furniture retailer Hold It Contemporary Home, as well as designing identities from the ground up- most recently with Mamaisms Gear, LLC. Iryna also contributes pro-bono work for non-profits, branding and marketing Asi Crecemos- which creates revenue for impoverished workers in Colombia- and email marketing support for the Just Like My Child Foundation, raising money and awareness for children in Uganda.

Mr. Lee earned his degree in Public Relations from the University of Miami. He still spends a great deal of time on campus as he works for the UM Law School. In addition to helping us promote Ink Plant, he also generates press releases, brochures, pamphlets, advertisements, and other P.R. writing for our clients.