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Ronnie was born in Ukraine, raised in Ghana. A college dropout who moved to America with $3,000. Despite the odds, built a tech-startup that sold for $40M, and is now building Meaningful Gigs where they’re creating 100,000 skilled jobs for Africans and redesigning the future of creative work in a remote world.

Melanie Brook started her professional life producing events and has now worked with creative teams for almost a decade. Though the majority of her career has been in creative project management, in recent years she shifted her focus to building the creative operations function within her teams. Her most recent teams have been in-house at Kiva (nonprofit), Intercom, and now LegalZoom. She loves creative ops because it holds endless opportunities to leave people and organizations better than you found them.

With over 18 years of hands-on experience in the creative field, Lisa brings a distinctive perspective to Design Operations. Her rich background as an art director, product designer and successful small-business owner (which she owned and operated for over 10 years) has shaped her unique approach. Lisa is spearheading the development of the design operations discipline at Realtor.com, where she has been a driving force for the past 2.5 years.

Angel started his professional career in social work and that shaped how he manages and grows teams. Mentorship and relationship building have been the tenets on which he has based his 20+ years of experience creating, managing, and strategically improving marketing operations. Specializing in project management and production, process and efficiencies are at the core of his approach to operations. He holds a strong belief that healthy, diverse work environments are the fundamental building blocks for any successful organization.

Jonathan Davis is an award-winning creative executive with nearly 20 years of experience in creative marketing, live-action production, and development of long, mid and shortform content.

In his current role as VP of Creative Marketing at A+E Networks, he oversees all consumer-facing creative comms for A+E Network, as well as for the emerging media division responsible for FAST channels, AVOD and SVOD products.

He values the process and the result – building partnerships, leading creative vision, and overseeing the teams that develop and execute award-winning work.