Digital Agency Entrepreneur

Founder Firstborn & Freedom + Partners

  • 1997 - 2011

    Worked in traditional advertising in Chicago and discovered the Internet in 1995. Moved to NYC in 1997, co-founded a digital agency, and for the next 14 years oversaw execution for hundreds of digital design and technology projects — corporate websites, eCommerce, branded games, social media content, mobile apps and ad campaigns — for the most high-profile brands in the world, primarily in Beauty, Fashion, CPG and Entertainment.

Firstborn and Freedom + Partners

Co-founded Firstborn in 1997 and founded Freedom + Partners in 2002. Both agencies are recognized as early pioneers of digital branding, design and eCommerce and are featured prominently in Taschen’s ‘Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World, 1990 to Today’, published in 2020.

Freedom + Partners

2002 - 2011

Adobe, American Express, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Comedy Central, Converse, Dasani, Donna Karan, Estée Lauder, Fox Searchlight, Fruit of the Loom, General Mills, Godiva, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, John Frieda, Kellogg, L’Oréal, Lucas Arts, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mountain Dew, NBC, NFL, Pearl Jam, Penguin USA, Prescriptives, Procter & Gamble, Ralph Lauren, Saturn, Sony Music, State Farm, SyFy Channel, Tom Ford, Toyota, Universal Pictures, USA Network, Victoria’s Secret and Volkswagen

Firstborn

1997 - 2002 Antonio Fusco, The Beatles, Business Week, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Clarins, Comedy Central, Dell, Dragoco, Estée Lauder, Federated Merchandising Group, Gucci, John Frieda, L’Oréal, Lancome, Macromedia, Mademoiselle, Madonna, Michael Kors, Mizani, New Line Cinema, Ralph Lauren, Red Bull, Redken, Sergio Rossi, Universal Music, Yigal Azrouel and Yves Saint-Laurent