Tamara Birdsall  Chief Creative Officer, Real Girls Media Network, Inc

Tamara was fond of stringing words together long before she became a copywriter. She now has over 20 years of experience building brands and shaping customer interactions. The fact that RGM allows her to focus on the narrative of women's lives suits her perfectly.

As a VP Associate Creative Director at both Saatchi & Saatchi and McCann Erickson, Tamara created award-winning TV, print and radio campaigns for Meredith Publishing, Hewlett Packard, Blue Shield, AT&T and The California Milk Advisory Board.

About seven years ago, she saw more interesting things happening on the digital side of the business so she crossed over. As VP, Creative Director at Carat Fusion, a digital marketing agency, Tamara created web experiences for clients such as adidas, Kodak, Revlon, Napster, Philips, Hyundai, Wachovia and Lifetime. Among her awards, Tamara is most proud of a silver Effie for Meredith Publishing and a "Best of Show" award at the San Francisco Show for Hewlett Packard.

Tamara believes in singing, writing, traveling to relatively obscure places and, always, thanking her lucky stars.

Barry “Bear” Whitfield President / Creative Director whitfieldbarret, San Diego, CA

Barry “Bear” Whitfield played football player at San Diego State, perfect training for the rough and tumble business of advertising. He started his advertising career over 15 years ago, at the award-winning San Diego agency Phillips-Ramsey/McCann Erickson.
Currently he’s running his own award-winning shop whitfieldbarret. “I believe in doing work that touches and moves people”, says Barry. It is this philosophy that has landed whitfieldbarret local, national and international recognition as well as helping clients sell their products and services.

Terry Marks Terry Marks is principal of tmarks design, a multi-disciplinary design firm in Seattle, Washington.

The work of tmarks spans clients from DC Comics to Weyerhaeuser Angel Fire Resort. His work has been recognized by Print, Communication Arts, Critique, HOW, Neenah, Potlatch and a few others including his fourth grade 4-H. Mr.Crumbly Dreams A Tiger, which he wrote and illustrated in collaboration with Rule 29 was one of the ten “Perfect 10” projects in a national competition sponsored by HOW. His latest collaboration will see a layman's introduction to wine, recalling a series of chef-prepared, winemaker-supplied, four-course meals in Napa, St. Helena and Healdsburg, California. His first book, Color Harmony: Layout, was released by Rockport last year.

He is an Advisory Board member for AIGA, Seattle having served for seven years as a Board Member, the last four as a Vice-President. Terry serves on the Link Executive Board, having helped found the Link art outreach program in Seattle. He co-chaired the Oodles of Doodles For Your Noodle project: an award-winning activity book for hospitalized and seriously ill children for the non-profit foundation Art with Heart. tmarks supports the work of the Autism Spectrum Treatment and Research Center.