Adam Ziskie

Bryan Hunt

Bryan has over 10 years experience working in the Motion Design, Visual FX and Compositing fields of post production. Over the years, Bryan has worked for clients such as: Verizon, Diageo, Dell and 3M. While not working on commercial projects, Bryan is interested in pursuing his passion for film making. In 2011 he won an award for his Visual FX work on the short film “No Record”.

Cody Lee

Cody is an experienced digital marketing and content strategist with specialities in SEM, social media and conversion optimization. He began his career copywriting before moving into managing multi-million dollar advertising budgets for Software Advice, a Gartner company. When not obsessing over driving results for clients, Cody can be found playing soccer, buried in a book, or at the movie theater.

Dani Adelman

Dani has been a great organizer of things and corrector of grammar since she was a wee child. (Nicely, though. She’s from Minnesota.) Her professional journey started in the Publishing industry and quickly evolved to Marketing and Advertising. She’s implemented Project Management departments from the ground up at multiple small agencies, and she’s managed projects for companies like Cadillac, Dow Jones, and Medtronic. When she’s not busy wrangling team members, she’s likely nostalgically binge watching 90s television shows, making food, or vintage treasure-hunting.

Dwight Fisher

Equal parts producer and North Carolina gentleman, Dwight Fisher left a career in finance to follow his big screen dreams to Austin, TX. The seasoned film/television producer has worked for the likes of American Crime, Shipping Wars and the indie feature Seven Chinese Brothers before coming to EO. In 2014 he wrote and directed, Murder Trust, a short film screened at the Kansas City Film Festival.

Ellen Bartling

John Papola

The big man, El Jefe, our fearless leader. John Papola leads the EO team with equal parts passion and rigor. John began his career broadcast TV, creating award-winning feature content and developing industry-leading branding practices for networks like Spike and Nickelodeon. As our CEO and ECD, John drives EO’s core purpose — serving mission-driven brands.

Josh Meyers

A 15-year veteran of broadcast television, Josh leads our post-production team to discover creative solutions that refine and advance brand stories. As a post-production supervisor in New York, Josh produced numerous award-winning campaigns for brands like Nicktoons, Spike, and World Wrestling Entertainment.

Josh Hilliard

Justin Pierret

Lisa Versaci

Talent scout. Unstoppable force. Lisa Versaci is a veteran producer who launched her career writing and producing long form Nickelodeon specials while shaking things up with her successful branding and marketing ideas. Passionate about animal rights and the food we eat, Lisa single-handedly brought a vegetarian burger to the national Burger King menu and co-wrote and co-produced the critically acclaimed documentary, At the Fork.

Marshall Walker Lee

As a copywriter, project manager, and consultant Marshall has worked with global brands including Ford, Prudential Financial, Walgreens, Dun & Bradstreet, Thrillist, and The Kellogg Foundation. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where the frigid winters forced him to spend most of his time reading joke books and writing thinly-veiled autobiographical novels.

Michele Roi

Michele’s role spans from managing projects and client expectations, to the behind the scenes business at EO in an accounting and human resources capacity. Michele hails from a post prodcution background where she was executive producer at charlieuniformtango, a post production facility in the southwest. She also owned and operated a children’s educational DVD business for 5 years where she developed skills in managing small businesses.

Mike Roberson

Syed Zafar

Syed is passionate about data science, visualization, and statistics education. He strongly believes in the importance of scientific and responsible data analysis in every area that uses data as a source of insight or to solve problems. Offline, he tries to avoid the screen as much as possible. He enjoys cooking food, traveling and biking.

Teryn Fogel

As a creative executive and producer, Teryn has overseen all facets of production from modestly budgeted independent films to large studio movies. She learned the ropes running development departments for Sony, Fox, and Disney and her expertise was honed in the world of documentary filmmaking, with the award winning SKID ROW. Teryn’s journey took her to EO where she’s running production and producing ABUNDANCE in partnership with American Enterprise Institute.

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