About Curren Calhoun

Curren has worked in various capacities within the photo industry over the last 25 years. From photo assistant, photographer, educator, and consultant for both photo production operations and related technology. For the last 13 years, he’s focused on e-commerce photo & video production of product and digital marketing assets, managing in-house photo operations for a variety of organizations ranging from a multi-channel retailer (TV, brick & mortar, catalog, and eCommerce channels) to flash sale, as well as luxury fashion. For the last 4 years, Curren has been with Gap, Inc. where he oversees photo production and technology composed of photography, styling, retouching, and technology teams who focus on producing visual assets for Gap, Gap Factory, Banana Republic, Banana Republic Factory, and Athleta brands.

About Lindsey Di Ruscio

Lindsey is the Photo Studio Manager at Trove Recommerce Inc, a startup that enables brands to own their resell channel. Lindsey has been working both in-house and freelance at photo studios for the past 16 years. She started her photo production career at Gap Inc. in merchandising and marketing where she supported a variety of photoshoots from national TV ads to product photography. At Stitch Fix, Lindsey was the initial Photo Studio Manager and built their first photo studio and photo team from the ground up. Lindsey cultivates a positive and fun working environment that fosters creativity and she thrives on collaborating and bringing a vision to life through photography.

About JASON WHEELER

Jason is a Director of Operations with a long history of working in the experiential marketing and advertising industry. With a deep knowledge of commercial art creation and applications, Jason deploys his skills across a wide range of disciplines including creative studio operations, business management, and strategic thinking.

About Karli Foster

Karli has managed e-commerce photo production teams for over 15 years and built photo studios from the ground up throughout the US. She has helped in e-commerce redesigns and managed photography for brands like The Frye Company, Stetson, Lululemon, Rag & Bone, among others. Karli is passionate about building scalable processes and results-driven teams.

About Sef Mccullough

Sef is a high-end commercial retoucher in Portland, Oregon. His career spans over twelve years, shipping campaigns for the most influential global brands. He takes a picture worth a thousand words and cooks it down to 17 syllables to make it into a haiku. Sef is the founder of Aesthetic Machine, the premier artisanal imaging studio of the Pacific Northwest. His team is up before sunrise making sure desire gets manufactured every day.

About Erin Pederson

Erin is an experienced Creative Director, Art Director, and Editorial Photographer in the Fashion, Beauty, Wellness, and Digital Marketing spaces. A natural problem solver, she has over 10 years of hands-on experience in the industry within high-profile retailers and freelance clients. Currently, she heads Creative at Nasty Gal.

About Alex Davidovich

Alex is a serial entrepreneur with over 8 years of experience in product, design, and e-commerce. After building his first company at just 16 years old, Alex went on to launch Squareshot in 2017 as the premier destination for ordering product photography online. Squareshot is the easiest way to get product images and is used by over 2,000 modern brands.

About Mercedes Castaneda

Mercedes holds a lifelong passion for captivating aesthetics, digital creation, and branding. With a background in Fine Art, Graphic Design, Marketing & Advertising, her experiences have allowed her opportunities to work with top brands including Blaze Pizza, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, Urban Decay, Too Faced Cosmetics, Wet n’ Wild, and Dermalogica. Mercedes currently works as the lead Photo Retoucher for Fabletics Men and continues to freelance within the Prestige Beauty & Cosmetics industry.

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About Mark Duhaime

Mark has over 30 years of experience bringing emerging imaging technologies to market. He has worked as Marketing Director for Hasselblad, one of the world’s premium brands of professional camera systems, as they made the transition to digital. Over the last 10 years, Mark has focused his efforts on helping e-commerce studios solve their challenges of image production deadlines, time, costs, quality, and consistency of content, by integrating image capture automation into their workflow.

About Benjamin Grimes

Benjamin has spent over a decade working as a production equipment expert and systems integrator for companies in the midwest and now as General Manager for the pro equipment and CinemaWorks division of Samy's Camera in Southern California. Benjamin works closely with the largest e-commerce production studios in the world as well as premier equipment manufacturers to help clients test, configure, and acquire any and all equipment related to studio production. His additional experience on set as a studio manager and digital capture technician has enabled him to have a unique partnership with his clients as they look to equipment solutions for even the more technical tasks in their production workflows. Benjamin is also an acting manager for a multimedia animation studio in East Hollywood where they curate and organize unique live music events alongside managing client relations for larger animation and advertising projects.

About Chris Snyder

Chris is Community Lead at Shopify where he supports LA merchants with his wealth of knowledge and experience in e-commerce operations. After spending 15 years in small business and corporate management Chris has owned and operated nearly a dozen small businesses both in the United States and internationally. You can find Chris helping his customers at Shopify Los Angeles located at ROW DTLA.

About Daniel Jester

Daniel is a multi-faceted creative production professional who has managed production teams, built and launched new studios, and produced large-scale projects. Creative-minded while also being able to effectively plan for and manage complex projects, Daniel bridges the gap between spreadsheets and creative talent. You can find him having interesting conversations with industry professionals as the host of the E-commerce Content Creation Podcast by Creative Force.

About RYAN ROBERTS

Ryan is a right and left-brain problem solver with a holistic view of production processes and how they interact with one another. His interest in identifying core operational inefficiencies translates into cost reductions and actionable productivity-enhancing solutions for his clients. Having worked on all sides of the content creation and asset implementation processes for top studios and brands, Ryan approaches projects with a deep understanding and appreciation for the needs of all stakeholders.

About Jakob Østerby

Jakob Østerby is COO at Pixelz after originally being brought on 7 years ago to streamline and scale the global production in Asia. Since then, Jakob has also played an integral role in product expansion including the latest addition of Editorial Retouching and he has built the global customer success team. The well-being and success of his team has always been a part of Jakob’s DNA as a former professional handball player.

About THOMAS LADEFOGED

Thomas is CEO at Pixelz and has spent numerous years as board member and leader within creative industries. For Thomas, everything is possible with true cooperation and structure. As a leader of innovative and creative companies, he knows the ins and outs of building successful teams and managing complex changes and transitions. Most importantly, Thomas knows that no team is successful without some laughs and smiles along the way.