Karen Jacobs

Managing Partner/Production

Big D. DMB&B/London. JWT/SF. And thankfully, ATX. Production wunderkind. Honorary rollergirl. Painter. Brad owner. Photon. White wine. Johnny Cash. Personal chef husband. A smart mother of smart children. Karen is experienced in making things move faster and better.

Jonathan Silverstein

Managing Partner/Business

A product of the Summer of Love. Schooled in Boulder. Educated in New York. Wall Street survivor. 18-year lover of the brand biz. Cold beer drinker. Drove a Fiat before J-Lo was cool. Jonathan is the biggest fan of his wife Jill and his daughters Brooke and Carly.

John Trahar

Managing Partner/Creative

Aussie from Rye. Prince of Roanoke. Portfolio Center graduate. Ogilvy, New York. Revived by Texas. Beard. Scotch. Jamie. Cal. 4/5/67. The Giants are Super Bowl Champs. John first makes things make sense, then he makes them resonate. John the Resonator.

Zach Rener

Creative Lead

Guitars. Field. Stream. Devoted fan of things brewed and distilled. Orangeblood. Writer. Future inventor of some sort of time machine. He’s heard of Portfolio Center. Proud husband and father. Your friend indeed. “Zach and I should really hang out more than we do.” - Steve Martin someday probably.

Nicole Holle

Content Producer

Native Austinite. Music curator. Football heiress. Reigned a year in Oz. Lover of dark nail polish and white string lights. Survived the Octagon. Lebowski disciple. Swine flu couldn’t stop her, and neither can you. Nicole is as smart and nice as she seems.

Erin O'Connor

Creative

UGA Bulldog. Portfolio Center grad. Board game expert. Left-handed writer of great copy. Organizes by rainbow. Always has the most perfectly inappropriate joke at the most perfectly inappropriate moment. Erin will eat all the chocolate before you have a chance to realize there is chocolate.

Ryan McLaughlin

Creative

Sooner. Portfolio Center grad. Casually serious motorcyclist. Face hair farmer. Conqueror of Mt. Scott. Master wayfinder. Received his design powers during a tornado. Dippin’ Dots’ most valuable team member – night shift. For some reason he has a finance degree. And if you tell him not to dance, he just won’t listen.

Tyler Crelia

Production

Native Austinite. Aged in CA and NYC. His bike is his horse. Loves boards on wheels and water. Watch him eat a fish right out of Town Lake. Big fan of beaches, mountains and other places you would shoot a beer commercial. Tyler would have pitched in the minor leagues if he had ever played baseball.

Elvira Marin

Office Manager

First Gen Chicana. Derby fans call her Shanx-a-lot. Sci-Fi Nerd major with an X-Files concentration. Knives. Nunchucks. Seeker of the good and positive. Doesn't care for cheese at all. A legend at Legend of Zelda. If there is corn being popped, she'll appear like a ghost.

Joel Henderson

Content Producer

Humble, TX. Pride in NY. Sweet tooth. Eagle Scout. Marathon man. Knife juggler. Longhorn. Quality human. Lover of Jack Daniels and math. Inventor of Casual Mondays and Business Fridays. Was once bitten by a shark. The shark will never forget it.

Melisa Smith

Accounting

San Diego Native. Exchanged to France. Fell in love with accounting at 19, so the rest is well-documented history. BS in Accounting, but not at all interested in your bs. Then, became a Master. Two sons. Avid traveler. She knows cakes.