Meet the Team

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  Kate Greene

  CEO

  As CEO, Kate Greene wears many hats but the role that informs all the others is that of problem solver. At the helm of Owl’s Head, she’s always looking at the big picture to get to the heart of what a client or project needs. With nearly 20 years of experience in all aspects of design and communications, Kate has developed expertise in branding, concepting, art direction, client management and team leadership. An entrepreneur by nature, Kate started her own design firm, Think Greene Creative, just five years after graduating from college. In 2012 she expanded it with a software development division and a new name, Owl’s Head Solutions. As Owl’s Head has grown—and pivotal in helping Owl’s Head to grow—Kate has moved beyond her creative capabilities, developing an overarching vision for the agency and realizing that vision by building and leading remarkable teams. Today, Kate and the company she leads offer clients full-scale design and technological solutions to any creative communications challenge, with particular experience and capabilities in the healthcare field, including health advocacy, public health, and sexual/reproductive health. Known for out-of-the-box thinking, smart design, cutting-edge technological solutions, outstanding execution and close, and enduring client relationships, Kate and Owl’s Head’s mantra is simple: “We can always find the perfect solution.”

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  Scott Rackliff

  COO

  With a deep background in the precise world of technology, COO Scott Rackliff is the perfect choice for keeping things humming at Owl’s Head. Having built our technology division in the agency’s early days, Scott now oversees IT, operations, HR and finance. Even when he was immersed fulltime in the language of coding and was building his impressive technology credentials, Scott was always a big-picture guy, and he continues to step back from the systems, spread sheets and design details to focus on finding the broad solutions. He has always had a rare ability to communicate with the non-tech world, which is invaluable in helping our clients become comfortable with the solutions our team crafts for them. Scott approaches these interactions with insight and understanding, which has been acknowledged and appreciated by our clients again and again. At the core of Scott’s leadership at Owl’s Head is his belief in flexible, effective solutions that gracefully fuse form and function. He has a particular interest in healthcare and sees tremendous opportunities for using design and development to make the world a truly healthier place.

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  Jennifer Lopardo

  Creative Director

  When she joined Owl’s Head Solutions, Creative Director Jennifer Lopardo already had more than a decade of experience as a graphic designer and art director, working with an impressive roster of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to major universities to giants in the financial and pharmaceutical worlds. Her passion for design was nurtured at Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she earned a BFA in Communication Design. Jen knows the power of great design, believing that it can be truly transformative, influencing both thinking and behavior. A highly strategic designer, she never loses sight of the fact that design is communication and that nothing matters except communicating a client’s message clearly and eloquently. Among the things Jen likes best about her work with Owl’s Head is the opportunity to work on projects that provide meaningful change, particularly in the healthcare field. She also values her role as mentor, discovering and nurturing talent as she builds her design team. Whether working with centuries-old institutions or renegade startups, Jen always produces design solutions that intrigue, inspire, illuminate and inform.

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  Corryn Young

  Director of Engineering

  Director of Engineering Corryn Young (aka Corey) came to Owl’s Head along an unusual path. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Arizona, Tucson in astronomy, Corey spent 10 years working on historic sailing ships for several non-profit organizations and foundations, developing and teaching history, STEM-based education classes and team-building programs. (We can say unequivocally that Corey is the first person in the Owl’s Head universe who has ever held the titles of Able Bodied Seaman and Chief Mate, or has ever sailed a Viking longship from Norway across the North Atlantic!) Corey’s decade on the water deeply informs the way she leads our engineering department, a management style she sums up as “Semper Gumby” (“always flexible”), as one has to be in dealing with the unexpected at sea. She teaches her team to anticipate potential problems or bottlenecks so when they can’t prevent them, they’ll have a plan of action perfectly in place to solve them. She believes the key to dealing with technical challenges is not just to look at the “what” of the issue, but to look deeper and discover the “why.” Corey has truly seen the world from a unique perspective, which helps her connect authentically with many of the healthcare-centric projects we work on. She leads a team with outstanding capabilities, an all-hands-on-deck attitude and the highest standards of excellence in helping our clients solve real-world problems.

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  Yihsuan Lu

  Senior Graphic Designer + Illustrator

  When looking at the precise, powerful icons, logos and illustrations created by Senior Graphic Designer and Illustrator Yihsuan Lu, it is hard to imagine that her artistic life began in the messy world of oil painting. But it is easy to see how her visual thinking and conceptual communication skills have served both disciplines. Born and raised in Taiwan, Yihsuan earned degrees in both illustration and graphic design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She draws on her love of reading—fiction, history, mythology and folktales—in crafting the logo and branding solutions, vector illustrations, icon designs and infographics that are her specialty. Yihsuan’s talents are particularly well suited to Owl’s Head Solutions, notably to healthcare projects where complicated, scientific or medical information must be accurately distilled and translated into a simple yet hard-hitting, instantly understandable image. That’s the heart of what Yihsuan does, bringing her unique talent to this vitally important aspect of our work.

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  Kristin Mozes

  Graphic Designer + Animator

  Looking back, Graphic Designer and Animator Kristin Mozes sees that her career path was set at about age 8 when she started writing little stories and creating illustrations to go with them, discovering early on how words and images work together to communicate. She didn’t know then that what was just childhood fun would become her life’s work. She built on this interest while studying painting, printmaking and art history in college, working for her university’s Office of Communications and Marketing and on the school newspaper, rounding out her fine art studies with on-the-job experience in print and digital design and production. Since joining Owl’s Head, Kristin has grown her skill set to include motion design and animation, user interface and user experience design, augmented reality interfaces, advanced layout techniques, and many other design capabilities. What’s most meaningful to Kristin about her work with Owl’s Head is the opportunity to be involved in projects that target real-world needs, taking complex material and mindfully presenting it in easily accessible ways. She also values the Owl’s Head culture, one built around high standards, respect, support and humor, all of which, she believes, combine to produce better results for our clients.

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  Taylor Morris

  Graphic Designer

  For Graphic Designer Taylor Morris, design is all about empathy and impact. While she welcomes any interesting design challenge, she gets truly fired up by projects that have an extra level of meaning—a bridge to community, a chance to improve sustainability or an opportunity to advance a not-for-profit’s mission. Her studies in both graphic design and photography at the University of Central Missouri are embraced in her work, reflected in projects such as creating the branding for a safe-driving program fundraiser, overseeing a sustainability-focused redesign of the university’s newspaper or photographing a private event with the incisive eye of a photojournalist. A childhood cancer survivor, Taylor brings an added dimension of understanding and purpose to her work with Owl’s Head’s healthcare-focused projects. With her expansive skillset, her dedicated problem-solver’s attitude—not to mention her passion for college football, roller coasters and true crime shows—Taylor is a valued member of the Owl’s Head team whose contributions help elevate everything we do.

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  Jason Powell

  Software Engineer

  Software Engineer Jason Powell’s journey toward the tech world began in childhood when he wanted to learn to code so he could create his own video games. While he may have known then that a career in software development was ahead, he took a few side trips on the road there. One of these was a major in Japanese language and culture at the University of Rochester that included spending a year in Japan where he later returned to teach English and soak up Tokyo’s live music scene. Another detour included work as a hospice caregiver, a character-building experience that resonates as Jason works with Owl’s Head’s healthcare clients. When Jason decided to “go pro” in development, he joined the Software Engineering Immersive program at Fullstack Academy, then became a Fullstack Teaching Fellow. After work at JPMorgan Chase writing financial software, he was ready to use his talents a little differently. Jason values the Owl’s Head culture where engineers and designers work side-by-side in a fusion of left-brain and right-brain thinking that produces elegant, creative solutions to help people and environments around the world.

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  Jan Michell

  Copywriter

  Jan Michell loves to tell stories…other people’s stories. She relishes taking complex, multi-tiered or even murky information, diving deep and turning it into a cohesive, clear message. With so many Owl’s Heads projects in healthcare or health-related fields, she has lots of opportunities to wrangle with scientific, medical or layered themes where that talent is a real asset. A graduate of Skidmore College, Jan’s writing journey began as a grant application writer and fundraiser for dance companies, where she honed her ability to present projects in compelling yet concise ways. From there she transitioned into advertising and ecommerce, working on everything from magazine ads to print catalogs to websites for startups and rebrands to internal marketing documents, now focusing more on branding, voice discovery and major messaging. Jan defines her work as crafting words that cut through the clutter of information that constantly bombards us; she’s always striving to find that emotional connection that makes it hard for the reader to move on. Working closely with our design team, she celebrates the collaborative process that is at the heart of the Owl’s Head ethos and feels fortunate to be able to support organizations whose work really matters.

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  Kendra McDonald

  Account Coordinator

  As Owl’s Head’s Account Coordinator, Kendra McDonald, keeps things humming. We call her the organizer-in-chief for her amazing ability to take every project and create an easy-to-follow road map for our team and our clients. Kendra studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology before beginning her professional journey in New York, with work in account management, sales, social media and customer service for several fashion houses and apparel retailers. She thrived in the fast-paced, multi-faceted fashion environment and loved being part of an industry that combines business and creativity. But after six years in the New York fashion world, she was ready for a place that was “quiet and green,” moving to Portland, Maine to manage a custom jewelry company and then an art gallery. When our Owl’s Head team first met Kendra, we knew that she was perfectly prepared to wrangle the daily details and challenges of our growing agency with her experience in business, her understanding of the creative process and her expertise in the “customer” part of customer service. Kendra helps us run things with grace, poise, can-do enthusiasm and humor, keeping everyone in our orbit calm and focused.

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  Job Opportunities

  We’re always looking for remarkable talent, and we know that remarkable talent is always looking for new opportunities. If you’d like to work with our exciting team on a full spectrum of challenging creative and development projects, we’d love to hear from you, wherever you may be. (Don’t worry, you won’t have to move… we work virtually!) Please get in touch if you have interest and experience in the following areas: Design | Illustration | UI | UX | Development | Video | 3D | And More Email Us!