Gretchen Walker is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Gretchen have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.
Gretchen Walker is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Gretchen have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.
Gretchen Walker is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Gretchen have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.
Mark Borden helps House both write and tell its story. He was creative-at-large at The New York Times, editorial director for Droga5, and a senior editor at Fast Company. Every summer he builds a harbor tank with local Cape Cod marine species in an effort to learn from and control nature. He's good at finding the edge of comfort zones.
Kevin Laurino is a Southern California native. He attended Chico State University to study Graphic Design. Over the past 15 years, Kevin has worked as a Screen Printer, Production Artist, Creative Director and Print Production Manager within a number of entertainment ad agencies.
In 2016, he joined the team at Netflix as their first Print Producer. Currently, in his fourth year at Netflix, he leads the Art Finishing and Retouching team.
Kevin lives in Santa Clarita, California with his wife and four children, ages 1, 3, 4 and 6.
Tom Foley is a Creative Type Director for Monotype, responsible for leading a team of type designers creating fonts for the Monotype Library and corporate brands. Words and letters are in Tom’s blood - his great-grandfather was from a family of stonemasons that specialized in letter carving and his uncle was a sign painter.
Tom studied Graphic Design at the world-renowned University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. He also studied type design under Freda Sack of Foundry Types to supplement his graphic design coursework.
Prior to Monotype, Tom spent seven years at type foundry Dalton Maag where he progressed from font developer to creative director.
Alice Palmer is the Vice President of Marketing at Monotype, where she’s focused on empowering the world’s top brands to be authentic, powerful, and consistent. With more than 15 years of marketing experience at publicly traded, global organizations, Alice is a customer-focused marketer who has managed top B2B brands and led global functions, including strategy, product/industry marketing, demand generation, customer marketing, public relations, and content.
Alice is a graduate of Duke University and has an MBA from the F.W. Olin School at Babson College, where she was valedictorian. She is a passionate advocate for working parents and enjoys food, wine, and travel. Alice lives just outside of Boston with her husband and four children.
Vincent Garcia is VP of Design at Dailymotion, bringing two decades of design expertise to the table. He leads the company’s design strategy across all touch points, ensuring alignment with product technology and business goals while deepening user engagement and strengthening design as a core company value.
Prior to joining Dailymotion, Vincent was a service design lead at Fjord Stockholm, driving projects for Nordic and international brands and businesses across a wide range of sectors such as telecommunication, banking and aviation.
When Vincent is not looking to the future for his next design idea, he spends his time with his family in Stockholm, playing ice hockey and building Lego sets with his son.
Caterina Bianchini is the founder and creative director of Studio Nari, a design studio established to bridge the gap between design and art.
Her passion lies in conceptual thinking and bespoke lettering, with a creative process that draws the focus away from the “do’s & dont’s” of textbook graphic design and practices a humanistic and artistic approach. This has caught the attention of some of the world's leading brands, including Apple Music, Vogue, Somerset House, Selfridge & CO, Barbican, Nike and Levi's.
Brand Talks events bring together the best and brightest minds in design, marketing and branding. Attendees examine the trends impacting their industries and explore real-world strategies from leading brands. Brand Talks attendees gain practical and valuable knowledge from experts in design, network with other creatives, and walk away ready to tackle their most important branding challenges, all through a series of short, engaging and inspiring talks from the world’s largest and most influential brands and agencies.