Steampunkt Collaborators

Lynn Bolger

Advisor - Sales Strategy and Development

Lynn is an experienced media professional with deep knowledge and broad perspective of the digital media marketplace.

She started her career at major agencies working in media planning and research positions. From there she was swiftly caught in the wave enthusiasm surrounding emerging technologies and believed in its power to redefine the industry. She led the earliest interactive media teams at FCB, Ammirati Puris Lintas and ultimately Initiative Media where Lynn served as EVP, Director of Digital Media Services and Operations. While working on the agency side, Lynn was deeply involved in pivotal industry policy-making that enabled the Internet to break through to the media "mainstream.

Then came the move to the vendor side where Lynn was a key member of the management team. While there she had the opportunity to help comScore build media research tools that met needs of agency planners and buyers. As an EVP at comScore, Lynn focused on sales of syndicated sales efforts, custom e-commerce and behavioral studies, and ultimately advertising effectiveness tools such as comScore's vCE. Lynn is extremely proud of the role she played to help comScore become the uncontested leader in digital measurement.

More recently, Lynn has added mobile media to her repertoire while managing agency sales relations at Medialets, the industry's only accredited mobile ad-server. The mobile ad marketplace is here to stay, and to be successful, its critical to understand the measurement and accountability challenges inherent in the platform.

Over the years Lynn has served extensively on industry committees for the Advertising Research Foundation, the AAAAs, and the IAB, and she speaks frequently at industry events.

Larry Harris

Advisor - Branding, Strategic Investments and M&A

Considered an interactive advertising and mobile media visionary, Larry Harris is one of the most esteemed executives working in media and marketing technology today.

An experienced mobile marketing and advertising executive and noted speaker for more than 20 years, Harris has led integrated marketing and branding programs for Microsoft, Bank of America, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Intel. Harris is the former Chief Executive Officer of Ansible Mobile, an early mobile agency.

Larry served as EVP and Director of Integrated Marketing for Draft, (now Draftfcb), where he built and led the global technology team and oversaw the company's relationship with Interpublic. In 2000, Harris co-founded the digital division of FCBi, the direct, digital and data arm of Foote, Cone and Belding. and web development for clients such as Hewlett-Packard, GSK, Quest, the IRS, Eli Lilly, Chase, Clairol and MetLife.

He began his career in advertising as a creative. His major account was Anheuser Busch and he led the team that developed the Bud Light Frogs, an amphibious first in the advertising industry.

Heidi Chisholm

Advisor - Chief Product Development Designer

Heidi Chisholm is an award-winning creative director specializing in packaging and is responsible for the look and feel and tactical translation of Kathryn's ideas into Steampunkt Lab products. Under her own label, Extra Fancy Co. she produced the first Steampunkt Re:Bag, the Michelle as well as a line of laser cut jewelry. Working for labels like Mr. & Mrs. Somebody, she has produced trend-setting fabrics in Miami and Europe and for South African companies. Her portfolio is here: www.extrafancyco.com.

Heidi was born in a small town in the middle of South Africa and her work is very much influenced by the colors and mashups of patterns of her native Continent. In 2008 she moved from South Africa to Brooklyn and while she very much misses her beloved country, she most recently lived in Cape Town, she is currently inspired by Steampunkt to bring color and functional design to everything from tea boxes to Re:Bags: bags designed for recycling (and just schlepping) that are made of double-faced, recyclable plastic that itself is made from recycled milk bottles. The images on each bag are intended to inspire through the example of a great leader, much the way medieval glass windows did. The first bag is an homage to Michelle Obama and the historic moment that she hula hooped in a school. The second is a celebration of Hillary Clinton and her work among the poor and children. There are also non-political bags such as Sunday in Prospect Park with Piper, a happy and zaftig young woman biking into the rest of her life. She lives with her two kids in Brooklyn who are in public elementary and middle school.

Ramiro Gamboa

Advisor - Product Design, Trade Show Exhibitions and Creative Direction

Ramiro Gamboa channels SteampunktI aesthetics with his companies Boonk and RAW. He has a special passion for working with recycled materials, and one of the reasons he likes to look at old stuff is because there is a story in each of the parts that gives it a special character. He also believes that in this era in which we live now, we need to think about reuse as much as possible.

Many of the pieces he makes use historical reclaimed materials. He upcycles and reuses discarded objects or materials in such a way as to create a product of a higher quality or value than the original and turn it into a new product. His first project was to design the interior of Couleur Cafe 435 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY. He also designed the interior of Cafe' Dada: www.cafedadany.com.

Ramiro came to New York City in 2004 from Mexico City, to work in advertising. He won various international awards for his Hispanic market campaigns for print and TV work for Altoids, Unilver, Pfizer, Citibank, Kellogg and Miller among other brands. (He has worked for Young & Rubicam, Ammirati Puris Lintas, J Walter Thompson and others). In 2009, he left advertising and started Booonk, a custom-made multifunctional bedroom for kids with space saving and creative features. He lives and works in Brooklyn with his wife, who teaches bilingual early childhood art, and their three children who are in elementary and middle school. His websites are: www.raw-woodwork.com and www.booonk.com.

Gerard Broussard

Advisor - Research, Data and Integration

Gerard Broussard is an accomplished advertising research professional with broad experience covering advanced TV, digital media, audience measurement (including set top box) ROI analysis, media strategy and marketplace analysis.

Gerard is the Principal at Pre-meditated Media. Prior to this, he was VP, Media Insights & Analytics, at Canoe Ventures, a cable operator joint venture whose purpose is to build out advanced TV platforms across member MSOs. During his 13-year tenure at WPP/GroupM, he was strategic planning research lead at the MediaEdge operating company and also oversaw research across Beyond Interactive, MEC Interaction and Mindshare Interaction, GroupM's digital and direct operating companies. Before joining WPP/GroupM, Gerard served as Director, Market Resources at CBS television network, leading a research team to competitively position CBS in the marketplace.

Known as a brilliant statistician in the industry, big data is the reality of his career not just the catch phrase of 2013. A native New Yorker, Gerard grew up in Queens and was educated in public schools. He earned both his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from Baruch College of the City University of New York.