With nearly two decades of experience as a creative director and designer, Rachel Latkolik brings a sharp, strategic, and people-first approach to brand building. Her work focuses on brand strategy, identity development, and packaging—helping brands tell distinctive visual stories that are authentic to them and built to connect.

Rachel has carved out a niche across the food and beverage and health and beauty sectors with work recognized by leading industry platforms, including HOW Design, Graphis Archigraphia Redux, David E. Baker’s Big Book of Logos, Communication Arts, The Dieline, Packaging of the World, and the World Brand Design Society.

As Executive Creative Director at Crew Marketing Partners, she believes that when the team thrives, the work follows. By fostering an environment where creatives feel supported, challenged, and trusted in their craft, she helps teams take bold risks and translate unique thinking into impactful brand work.

Outside the office, she’s married with two kids, three cats, and a lizard. When she isn’t lint-rolling her sweater, she’s binge-watching episodes of Schitt’s Creek—a reminder that great storytelling, like great branding, always starts with heart.

www.crewmp.com/

Phil Mimaki is a Creative Director and multidisciplinary designer with more than 20 years of experience building brands across advertising, lifestyle, and consumer products. His work spans identity systems, packaging, photography direction, video, digital campaigns, and large-scale creative platforms for global audiences. He has worked at major advertising agencies including BBDO and Ogilvy, as well as boutique firms such as BooneOakley, and early in his career served as a personal assistant to legendary designer Paul Rand, an experience that shaped his approach to concept, clarity, and visual communication.

Phil spent over a decade as Creative Director at INTEX Recreation Corp., where he led global branding and integrated marketing efforts for more than 2,000 products sold across major retailers and international markets. Today, he runs an independent creative consultancy, partnering with clients across consumer goods, wellness, and public-interest projects. He is also the creator of Quiet Americans, a digital storytelling project focused on overlooked Japanese American histories.

www.philmimaki.com

“Make stuff people care about.” 

When Jeff Goodby, one of Lesly Pyle’s mentors, said these five words, they changed everything for her. They became a beacon for how she approaches writing ads — and living life. Sure, Lesly’s worked at companies she’s proud to namedrop, like Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Apple, FCB, The Richards Group, and Saatchi & Saatchi. But the thing she’s most proud of is “Pyle of Memories,” a best-selling book of amusing short stories she co-authored with 35 of the best storytellers she knows as a fundraiser for dementia research. Because dementia is something 55 million people care about.

www.wearesaatchi.com

Rob started as a small boy and has grown taller since that time.  He is currently a Creative Director at DeVito/Verdi in New York City. 

Rob has worked at some of the top agencies in NYC over the past couple of decades  - including  Chiat/Day, Ammirati and Ogilvy. Creating campaigns for national & international accounts like Burger King, Ad Council, Reebok, Legal Sea Foods and BMW. But he also had the pleasure of co-owning and running his own small agency in Connecticut for years.

Some fun facts about Rob: He is a 4.0 tennis player (if that means anything to you) and has broken 80 in golf. (Golf skills on great decline as this is being written.) He’s directed over 25 commercials and is a SAG member who has done voice-over/announcer work for years, as well as silly character voices, like singing fish. Rob is also a guitar player/singer/songwriter who has released 3 full-length albums of original songs - under the super-secret name, Rob Morton.(Shhhhh. Don't tell DeVito/Verdi).

Rob has won many industry awards - other people say it, so must Rob - including One Show Pencils, Clios, Addys, Addy Best of Show, 20+ Tellys, and a Cannes Lion. Rob wants to thank you personally for reading this blurb, as he is writing it in the third person.

www.devitoverdi.com/, www.robslosberg.com

Chris Turner is an Executive Creative Director with over 25 years of agency experience, split between New York and Chicago, where he’s tackled everything from sausage to software. He has flexed as an art director, writer, designer, photographer, and global team leader, always partnering strategically to deliver impactful work. As a multiple Cannes Lion winner, Chris also lends his expertise as an art school instructor and ad show judge. Beyond the agency world, he’s a husband, father of four, a native Michigander who’s slightly above average on the hockey rink.

At Ogilvy, Chris has dedicated over a decade to Dove’s iconic "Campaign for Real Beauty," which Ad Age named the #1 campaign of the 21st century, and recently earned the 2025 Cannes Grand Prix for long-term Creative Strategy. He orchestrated Workday’s first-ever Super Bowl “Rock Star” spot, which not only landed in the Top 10 of USA Today’s Admeter and garnered over 4 billion impressions but also secured multiple gold Cannes Lions and Effies. Maybe more importantly, Workday’s “Rock Star” campaign has given Chris a selfie with Ozzy Osbourne. During his eight-year tenure as creative lead for the Chicago Blackhawks, his work earned two Emmy nominations, coinciding with the team’s three Stanley Cup victories—a feat he totally takes full credit for.

Christurnercreative.com, www.ogilvy.com