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Colin Mangham CEO & Founder
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Colin founded the Daily Brand Group on the belief that life is too short to waste a single day on anything that doesn't bring about a positive change, big or small ... "if it's worth doing, do it daily." Professionally he’s a senior strategist, creative director, writer, producer and entrepreneur. Above all he’s an integrator with an unbridled passion for connecting great people, ideas and resources, often during critically important formative stages and always somehow/someway for the proverbial Greater Good.

Colin’s 20+ years of expertise in transmedia branding, integrated marketing, design and entrepreneurial business development has supported the successes of household-name corporations with global wingspans (including 8 of the Fortune 100) as well as innovative start-ups equipped more simply with compelling ideas and visionary leadership. Clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lucent Technologies, FOX Broadcasting, Procter & Gamble (Tide), Boeing, Foot Locker, Howard Johnson, DirecTV, Perfect water, Amgen, Delta Air Lines, Casio, United Airlines, EAU Technologies, Polycom, Speed Channel, Verizon, Dime Savings Bank, Oxygen Media, The EPA, Warner Bros., IOGEAR, Sprint, Israel Ministry of Tourism, Speed Channel, Nextel, WaMu, Castle Arch, Madison Square Garden and The New York Yankees.

Passionate about cinema, music and the visual arts, Colin has served as Vice Chairman of a Hong Kong based arts foundation (MOCA China), programmed films for the Aspen Filmfest and US Comedy Arts Festival, booked and promoted recording artists, written screenplays professionally, and published over 100 arts and entertainment articles. He has consulted non-profits including HENAAC (which he rebranded as Great Minds), the Los Angeles Archdiocese (created first-ever campaign for 227 elementary schools), the US Department of Health & Human Services (Let’s Move) and C5 Youth Foundation (formerly Camp Coca-Cola). He currently serves on the boards of C5 (LA), Beverly Hills Good Shepherd School and Project-Peace on Earth.

He has worked as senior staff with agencies including Christy MacDougall Mitchell, LLKFB and The Centrifuge Group (as President/Founder) as well as in alliance with Saatchi & Saatchi, RPA, RPMC, Direct Partners, Mediacom and others. He has received awards from the Financial Communications Society, Western Publications Association, Macromedia, NewMedia/Invision, Step Inside Design, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Promax and the Broadcast Design Association, for which he has twice served as a judge for the annual awards competition. Additionally, he serves on corporate Advisory Boards for Centri Technology, PeopleJar and Roys & Associates, and is an active member of Net Impact, the AIGA and other professional organizations.

Colin was awarded his MBA with an emphasis on International Marketing from the University of Liverpool, England. His Master’s thesis, “The Luxury Brand and Its Growing Demand in China,” investigated trends toward more individualistic Chinese consumer behavior as a function of dramatically increasing affinities for luxury products and services. He is developing the 125-page dissertation into a Flip Thru Book entitled "The People's Daily Brand." He holds a B.S. (Honors) in Marketing with a Minor in English Literature from Louisiana State University, where he also served as President of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

More personally, Colin enjoys asking (and answering) "what if", turning an idea into a company, making something out of nothing, filling a white sheet of paper with a Sharpie, traveling (particularly in Southeast Asia), shuffling 25,000+ songs in iTunes, cruising PCH with the top down, cranking the Telecaster to 11, beginning his day with “I get to…” instead of “I have to…”, and hanging out pretty much anywhere/anytime with his wife, daughter and son.

Tracy Ritzwoller Managing Director [Austin]
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Tracy Ritzwoller is the Managing Director and a principal in Daily Brand Ventures, where she continues to extend her track record of success leveraging her extensive international network of professional colleagues and clients to source capital and fuel business development. She has over 15 years of experience in financial services, trading and capital markets, including her work with JPMorgan in energy, currency, cross commodity origination and marketing, as well as corporate finance deals servicing a diversity of clients.

Tracy has marketed crude and traded its derivatives extensively, plus developed and implemented hedge/risk programs for the full gamut of the energy sector, including refiners (petroleum feedstocks), producers (crude, natural gas), merchants, utilities, chemical (petrochemical, plastics, PVC, pharmaceuticals, and coatings) and transportation (shipping, airlines, freight, trucking, and automotive). She has also negotiated domestic and international physical oil purchases and financial transactions working for and with the 5th largest investor-owned utility, as well as top-tier investment banks, universities, hospitals, global financial and real estate service groups, and multi-national fortune 500 companies. With Daily Brand Ventures, Tracy continues her high-degree of involvement in joint ventures, venture capital, private equity, and private and public placement projects seeking financing.

Tracy demonstrates an unbridled enthusiasm for challenges, adventures and any opportunities to think creatively outside the box. She has an entrepreneurial mindset that has positioned her as a leader in each industry in which she has been involved. As an accomplished jack-of-all-trades, she played her 'Trump card' to be picked out of a group of 1,000 candidates for The Apprentice by Donald Trump himself live on The Today Show. She is an avid sports fan who loves to not only watch, but also play many different sports. Her competitive and creative nature has helped her excel in her diverse financial services career.

A founding partner in a carbon offset company and a long-standing member of Greenpeace, Tracy is dedicated to the green causes and the environmental movement, and is intricately involved in various alternative energy projects. She holds a B.A. in Consumer Finance and a minor in Economics from the University of Missouri, though she proudly hails from Houston. She is an avid traveler, and lived in New York for five years before making the move to Santa Monica, where she can pursue her passions for surfing, snowboarding, cycling, triathlons and all the benefits of beach living.

Dan Hirsch Managing Director
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Dan Hirsch has over 15 years business development experience specializing in creating and implementing revenue enhancing programs. He has been instrumental in the success of businesses in numerous industries including travel, finance, autos, healthcare, hotel, and clean technology. Specialties include digital media, consumer insights, strategic partnerships, and sales programs.

Dan’s online media expertise commenced with five years of senior management roles at AOL. Functions included General Manager of AOL’s communities, finance, autos, travel, health, and women’s businesses where he developed products that combined lifestyle content, community interaction, and lead generation tools to drive incremental revenues. He pioneered a new model for monetizing online communities by developing community-based product launch marketing programs for the music, auto, and finance industries. Dan was recruited by AOL’s Steve Case to become Head of Business Development and Corporate Strategy for Miraval Resorts, a top-rated luxury resort and award-winning spa. He was tasked with developing brand expansion initiatives including new product partnerships, locations and online experiences that captured the unique health and wellness community served by Miraval.

Most recently, Dan was a senior consultant for American Laser Centers, a 200-clinic cosmetic medicine company, where he fully revised the franchise’s acquisition marketing program primarily by leveraging digital marketing tools and co-marketing partnerships – his strategies reduced the cost per sale from $506 to $424 in only four months. Currently, while actively consulting a select number of predominantly technology and media companies, Dan is the acting President of Advanced Algae, a greenhouse gas remediation company pioneering new technologies that convert greenhouse gases into energy for medium-sized stationary source emitters. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Spreezio, a location based real time local merchant offer service designed for mobile consumers, and as a strategic advisor regarding co-marketing programs for V-me Media, the fastest growing Spanish language media company in the U.S.

Dan started his career as a lawyer at McKenna and Cuneo. Later he went into investment banking as Senior Vice President of Operations and General Counsel for MASA, Inc. Dan received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University and his B.A. in Economics with Honors from U.C.S.D.

Dariush Khansari Director & Studio Manager

Brian Henry Associate Creative Director

Roby Bates Senior Interactive Designer

Hilary Stunda Special Projects

Alana Smithee Executive Assistant

Betty Johann Controller

Tilsia Acosta Office Manager

ASSOCIATES

Jason Keiles [London] Broadcast Media & Asia-Pacific Strategy
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Jason Keiles is the Daily Brand Group's official representative in the UK (based in London) and conduit to EU clients. He is currently the Chief Representative, North and South America, for Virgin Radio International as well as a senior business development consultant to ITV, the oldest (1955) television network in the UK and the BBC's primary competitor.

Jason is a highly global media executive with a solid track record in formulating and implementing new business and growth strategies and operating businesses across the US, UK, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. He has deep and wide experience in corporate and business development across major Hollywood Studios, start-up new media companies, independent production companies, broadcasters, non-profit and government entities. He builds relationships at Board and C-levels to deliver results, and brings to Daily Brand a proven track record of joint venture and acquisition deal structuring, negotiation, capital raising, business restructuring and operations/P&L oversight.

Prior to his current role with Virgin Radio International, Jason was stationed in Singapore where he was responsible for the launch and development of Virgin Radio in Asia as well as the restructuring of the company's radio operations in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"). While in China he concluded a three-year assignment structuring, negotiating and launching a new joint venture company for Vistage International, the world's largest CEO membership organization. Additionally, Vistage engaged him to identify opportunities for the organization to launch a radio program and/or channel in the US targeting small- to medium-size business owners and employees. Prior to Vistage, Jason advised FOX Television Studios on the establishment of local television production companies in territories outside of the U.S.

Additional initiatives in China included engagement by Stellar Media, a Chinese content distributor, to assist in the development of a content strategy for multiple content delivery platforms (such as satellite, digital television, telephony and internet) in the PRC. Similarly, in coordination with High View Media, Jason was brought on to co-develop a strategy and business plan for the launch of a video-on-demand (VOD) service for a German telecom company's broadband customers. Jason has also served in other senior international business development roles for Massive Media Group, Universal Television Group (the television arm of Universal Studios), and Twentieth Century Fox. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from UC Irvine, and an MBA from The University of Chicago.

Randy Smith [Los Angeles] Branded Entertainment & Sponsorships

Koan Jeff Baysa, MD [New York] Life Sciences & Scent Marketing

ADVISORS

Harry Koenig [New York] Former COO Siegel+Gale, TPG Direct, LLKFB, Lowe Direct

Howard Alperin [Los Angeles] Corporate Counsel, Eisner, Frank & Kahan LLP

Jayme Albin, Ph.D. [New York] Behavioral Psychology & Research

Mark Stone [Orange County] International Travel & Hospitality

Dumas Ting [Shanghai] Former CFO of Shanghai & Chairman Shanghai Aviation

INTERNS

Elliott Stone Production Assistant