Dina Mande

Creative Director
is an accomplished brand strategist, graphic designer, copywriter, editor, visual fx artist and award winning filmmaker. Originally from St. Helena, Dina started her career in the Napa Valley; first in the marketing department at Buena Vista Winery, then at Napa’s leading agency, Balzac Communications. After a stint at Industrial Light & Magic in Marin County to learn animation and visual effects, then a year in the breakneck world of news, she transitioned to entertainment marketing, design and advertising. She spent the next nine years branding and marketing feature films, television shows and DVDs at New Wave Entertainment for clients such as HBO, Warner Bros, Paramount, Lifetime, Disney and designed the entire graphics package for the 2004 Emmy Awards. Her short films have played numerous festivals, including Tribeca and Toronto. Recently, Dina has served as creative director on projects for Sony, Pepsi, Aquafina and Microsoft. She is thrilled to be back among the grapes.

Follow Dina @dinamande

Katie Korgan

Art Director
graduated from Cal Poly SLO with a B.S. in Graphic Communication. She’s an award-winning graphic designer with a passion for print design. Along with an internship at Sports Illustrated magazine in New York City in 2006, Katie has worked as a graphic designer for Barnett Cox & Associates in SLO, and freelanced for various agencies throughout SLO County, including Whizbang Ideas and Downstairs Design. In addition to her background in print, she has experience in copywriting, photography and web design. Katie enjoys traveling; she studied abroad in Australia for 6 months during college, and backpacked through Europe after she graduated. On the weekends, you may find Katie pouring and selling wine at Whalebone Vineyard in Paso Robles.

Drew Ross

Project Manager

is currently studying Graphic Communication and Journalism at Cal Poly SLO and Cuesta College. Drew has two years experience as Editor in Chief of an award winning student-ran news magazine in Northern California. Drew was recognized in 2008 by the Society of Professional Journalists for his work on defending the First Amendment. Drew enjoys work almost as much as he enjoys traveling. He has been all over Central America and the Caribbean and hopes to one day travel around Europe and New Zealand.

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James Lal

Lead Web Developer

has a background in sales, e-commerce and business  along with web development. With a dedication to making your technology work harder for you, he brings 6 years of experience with web technologies such as: PHP, HTML, CSS  and JavaScript to the table.

Currently he is working on cutting edge e-commerce and content management solutions for Wineries.