Eric Horton | Founder, CEO - DigNit, Inc.

A native Californian, Eric has lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains his whole life. He has built a career using skills as an artist and designer, recording engineer, videographer, animator, programmer, photographer, and all around geek. His colleagues and peers know him as a multimedia wizard, and pretty decent guitarist to boot!

Eric’s clients through the years have included national and international brands from Discovery Channel to The National Jockey's Guild. Eric’s clients stay with him year after year, because he has become their one-stop-shop for everything from video to print design, branding and logo design. Because the relationships span so many years, Eric is intimately aware of the details and nuances of his clients’ business, and is able to deliver the right designs on time.

All of this is experience now being poured into DigNit. Every discipline of Eric’s twenty-plus year career in multimedia is being brought to bare, and it shows in the thought and vision that is www.DigNit.com. 

Lynn Christiansen Esquer | Vice President, Marketing - DigNit, Inc.

Lynn Christiansen Esquer is an expert practitioner in advertising, marketing and public relations, and a former newspaper journalist and editor. Her more than 20 years of experience include her recent role at The Open Group, the world’s leading IT standards organization, as the Marketing Communications Director. Previously, Lynn’s experienced included her work at Peppercom San Francisco, where she handled accounts for Yahoo! and Wilbur-Ellis Co and established the MarCom division; her executive role at marketing agency Shennum Green, Inc., where she handled special projects, particularly in the interactive division; and e-agency, Inc., where she served as Vice President of Account Services.

In her previous life as a journalist, Lynn was a reporter and editor at The Contra Costa Times, The Oakland Tribune, and other publications in the Bay Area and Los Angeles regions. She also founded the Central Coast Press Club to provide media support and continuing education for both television and print journalists, and public relations professionals, in the Monterey County/Santa Cruz County region. Lynn studied print journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications, with a minor at USC’s School of Cinema-Television.

www.DigNit.com

Roger Jennings | Vice President, Video Arts - DigNit, Inc.

Roger Jennings is a Silicon Valley video producer, editor, and director of photography. His projects range from video production to print/graphic design to computer programming. He survived the Desktop Publishing Revolution of the early 80s where the untrained took pride in the obnoxious – the use of every available font on a single page. History repeats, he says: “Today’s YouTube is the nightmare of the past where anything and everything is thrown at the eye without conscious thought toward message, taste, clarity, and harmony.”

Roger graduated from San Jose State in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. He now resides in San Jose, California with wife and daughter. His passions include camping, travel, mixology, and photography.

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Felipe Luna | President & CEO - Concert Global Group Inc.

Before forming CONCERT in 2005, Felipe worked as a Corporate Vice President with UBS and managed offices in San Jose and San Francisco. Prior to his time with UBS, he served as Vice President at Smith Barney where he helped build a unique office in Palo Alto, California dedicated to servicing and financial planning for high net-worth individuals.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Felipe came to Silicon Valley in the early nineties. He now lives in San Jose with his wife Elizabeth of 12 years and there three children. Felipe enjoys coaching his children's soccer teams, swimming and is engaged with the Pastoral Counsel at St. Claire Church.

www.ConcertGlobal.com

Dean Markley | President & CEO - Dean Markley Strings, Inc.

The folks at Dean Markley help musicians who have come unstrung. Dean Markley Strings primarily sells strings for acoustic, electric, and classical guitars, as well as basses and other instruments, with a roster of endorsing artists that is a veritable who's who of rock n' roll legends. It also sells pickups, tuners, and accessories.

The company evolved when music store owner Dean Markley began experimenting with string designs and selling them in 1972 from his storefront. Markley's first taste of success came after he invented the Voice Box, a vocal effects processor, and rocker Peter Frampton featured it to orgiastic effect in his hit, "Show Me the Way." The Voice Box also brought the Markley name to the attention of distributors. Markley owns and runs Dean Markley Strings.

One of Dean Markley's recent notable innovations are "Blue Steel" guitar and bass strings, which are cryogenically frozen with liquid nitrogen, to make them last longer.

www.DeanMarkley.com