Who

WE’RE FOCUSED ON MAKING THINGS BETTER.

We’re strategists, communicators and connectors.
A diverse but tight-knit team formed to do good stuff on a daily basis.

Colin Mangham CEO & Founder  
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Colin founded the Daily Brand Group on the belief that life is too short to waste a single day on anything that doesn’t bring about a positive change, big or small … “if it’s worth doing, do it daily.” Professionally he’s a senior strategist, creative director, writer and media producer. He’s also an entrepreneur, angel investor, and presently the acting Chief Marketing Officer for Biomimicry 3.8 (www.Biomimicry.net). Above all he’s an integrator with an unbridled passion for connecting great people, ideas and resources, often during critically important formative stages and always somehow/someway for the proverbial Greater Good.

Colin’s 21 years of expertise in branding, integrated marketing, design and entrepreneurial business development has supported the successes of household-name corporations with global wingspans (including +5% of the Fortune 500) as well as innovative start-ups equipped more simply with compelling ideas and visionary leadership. Clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lucent Technologies, FOX Broadcasting, Procter & Gamble (Tide), Boeing, Foot Locker, Howard Johnson, DirecTV, Perfect water, Amgen, Delta Air Lines, Casio, United Airlines, EAU Technologies, Polycom, Speed Channel, Verizon, Dime Savings Bank, Oxygen Media, The EPA, Warner Bros., IOGEAR, Sprint, Speed Channel, Nextel, WaMu, Castle Arch, Madison Square Garden, the United Nations and The New York Yankees.

He has worked as senior staff with agencies including Christy MacDougall Mitchell, LLKFB and The Centrifuge Group (as President/Founder) as well as in alliance with Saatchi & Saatchi, RPA, RPMC, Direct Partners, Mediacom and others. He has received awards from the Financial Communications Society, Western Publications Association, Macromedia, NewMedia/Invision, Step Inside Design, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Promax and the Broadcast Design Association, for which he has twice served as a judge for the annual awards competition. Additionally, he serves on corporate Advisory Boards for Centri Technology, PeopleJar and Roys & Associates, and is an active member of Net Impact, the AIGA and other professional organizations.

Passionate about cinema, music and the visual arts, Colin has served as Vice Chairman of a Hong Kong based arts foundation (MOCA China), programmed films for the Aspen Filmfest and US Comedy Arts Festival, booked and promoted recording artists, written screenplays professionally, and published over 100 arts and entertainment articles. He has consulted non-profits including HENAAC (which he rebranded as Great Minds), the Los Angeles Archdiocese (created first-ever campaign for 227 elementary schools), the US Department of Health & Human Services (Let’s Move) and C5 Youth Foundation (formerly Camp Coca-Cola). He currently serves on the boards of C5 (LA), Beverly Hills Good Shepherd School (Board), Project-Peace on Earth (Chair of the Advisory Board), and most recently a United Nations agency regarding humanitarian aid and development missions in the Middle East.

Colin was awarded his MBA with an emphasis on International Marketing from the University of Liverpool, England. His dissertation, “The Luxury Brand and Its Growing Demand in China,” investigated trends toward more individualistic Chinese consumer behavior as a function of dramatically increasing affinities for luxury products and services. He has also begun writing an inspirational business book he’s co-authoring with an acclaimed psychologist. He holds a B.S. (Honors) in Marketing with a Minor in English Literature from Louisiana State University, where he also served as President of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

More personally, Colin enjoys asking and answering “what if”, turning an idea into a company, making something great out of something good, traveling internationally and off the beaten path, shuffling 25,000+ songs in iTunes, cruising PCH with the top down, cranking the Telecaster to 11, hanging out with the wife and youngins, and beginning his day not with “I have to” but “I get to…”

 

Tracy Ritzwoller Founding Partner | Daily Brand Ventures
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Tracy Ritzwoller Dombek is a Director and Founding Partner in Daily Brand Ventures, where she continues to extend her track record of success leveraging her vast international network of professional colleagues and clients to source capital and fuel business development. She has almost 20 years of experience in financial services, trading and capital markets, including her work with JPMorgan in energy, currency, cross commodity origination and marketing, as well as corporate finance deals and business development servicing a diversity of clients.

Tracy has marketed crude and traded its derivatives extensively, plus developed and implemented hedge/risk programs for the full gamut of the energy sector, including refiners (petroleum feedstocks), producers (crude, natural gas), merchants, utilities, chemical (petrochemical, plastics, PVC, pharmaceuticals, and coatings) and transportation (shipping, airlines, freight, trucking, and automotive). She has also negotiated domestic and international physical oil purchases and financial transactions working for and with utilities, as well as top-tier investment banks, universities, hospitals, global financial and real estate service groups, and multi-national fortune 500 companies. With Daily Brand Ventures, Tracy continues her involvement in joint ventures, marketing, business development, venture capital, private equity, and private and public placement projects seeking financing.

A founding partner in a carbon offset company and a long-standing member of Greenpeace, Tracy is dedicated to green causes and the environmental movement, and is intricately involved in various alternative energy projects, either involving herself within a company helping to grow it organically or helping with business development or fundraising for new ventures. She holds a B.A. in Consumer Finance and a minor in Economics from the University of Missouri, though she proudly hails from Houston. She is an avid traveler, and lived in New York for five years, then Santa Monica for four before making the move back to her roots where she currently resides in Austin, Texas.

Tracy demonstrates an unbridled enthusiasm for challenges, adventures and any opportunities to think creatively outside the box. She has an entrepreneurial mindset that has positioned her as a leader in each industry in which she has been involved. As an accomplished jack-of-all-trades, she played her ‘Trump card’ and was chosen out of a group of 1,000 candidates for The Apprentice by Donald Trump himself live on The Today Show. She is an avid sports fan who loves to not only watch, but also play many different sports. Her competitive and creative nature has helped her excel in her diverse financial services career.

 

Dariush Khansari Managing Director | Daily Brand Media

Chris Davis Motion Graphics

Hilary Stunda Special Projects

Barrett Weller Executive Assistant

Betty Johann Controller

Tilsia Acosta Office Manager

ASSOCIATES

Koan Jeff Baysa, MD [New York] Medical Advisor & Design Curator
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Kóan Jeff Baysa, MD is a physician, writer, Whitney Independent Study Program Curatorial alumnus, and a member of AICA, the association of international art critics. He has curated exhibitions for the Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, and The United Nations, and has organised more than a hundred art and science events throughout the US and internationally.

Dr. Baysa has lectured at the Whitney Museum and MoMA in New York, the Philips Collection in Washington DC and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University in Virginia. He is on the boards of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University, as well as the Art Omi International Artist Colony where he was the 2006 critic-in residence and will be the 2011 curator emeritus. In 2007 he received a Ford Foundation grant to conduct a curatorial workshop at the Hanoi University of Culture in Vietnam.

In addition to being an active Associate and collaborator with Daily Brand Group, he also advises 5DAY Missions, the Streaming Museum, Art and Med, and Medical Avatar. Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles, and segued from an allergy practice in lower Manhattan to clinical research on memory disorders. His curatorial projects bring together creativity, science, and technology in salons organised for medical and science conferences like MMVR and AChemS, and educational exhibitions, including a recent show on neurodiversity at MoMA Ukraine.

 

Jason Keiles [London] Broadcast Media & Asia-Pacific Strategy
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Jason Keiles is one of Daily Brand Group’s UK and EU representatives. He is currently Vice President of Business Development for Getty Images. Previously he was Chief Representative, North and South America, for Virgin Radio International as well as a senior business development consultant to ITV, the oldest (1955) television network in the UK and the BBC’s primary competitor.

Jason is a highly global media executive with a solid track record in formulating and implementing new business and growth strategies and operating businesses across the US, UK, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. He has deep and wide experience in corporate and business development across major Hollywood Studios, start-up new media companies, independent production companies, broadcasters, non-profit and government entities. He builds relationships at Board and C-levels to deliver results, and brings to Daily Brand a proven track record of joint venture and acquisition deal structuring, negotiation, capital raising, business restructuring and operations/P&L oversight.

Prior to his current role with Virgin Radio International, Jason was stationed in Singapore where he was responsible for the launch and development of Virgin Radio in Asia as well as the restructuring of the company’s radio operations in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”). While in China he concluded a three-year assignment structuring, negotiating and launching a new joint venture company for Vistage International, the world’s largest CEO membership organization. Additionally, Vistage engaged him to identify opportunities for the organization to launch a radio program and/or channel in the US targeting small- to medium-size business owners and employees. Prior to Vistage, Jason advised FOX Television Studios on the establishment of local television production companies in territories outside of the U.S.

Additional initiatives in China included engagement by Stellar Media, a Chinese content distributor, to assist in the development of a content strategy for multiple content delivery platforms (such as satellite, digital television, telephony and internet) in the PRC. Similarly, in coordination with High View Media, Jason was brought on to co-develop a strategy and business plan for the launch of a video-on-demand (VOD) service for a German telecom company’s broadband customers. Jason has also served in other senior international business development roles for Massive Media Group, Universal Television Group (the television arm of Universal Studios), and Twentieth Century Fox. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from UC Irvine, and an MBA from The University of Chicago.

 

Randy Smith [Los Angeles] Branded Entertainment & Sponsorships

COUNSEL

Howard K. Alperin [Los Angeles] Corporate Counsel,Blecher & Collins
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Howard K. Alperin is a partner with over 20 years of litigation and trial experience in state, federal and bankruptcy courts. Mr. Alperin also has an extensive transactional practice, giving him the unique ability to handle all facets of his clients’ ongoing litigation and transactional needs.

Mr. Alperin’s litigation practice includes the representation of individuals and corporations in entertainment, intellectual property and complex business litigation matters, including those relating to unfair competition, false and deceptive trade practices, media torts (including misappropriation of name and likeness, defamation and invasion of privacy), securities/consumer fraud class action litigation and a broad range of other corporate and commercial litigation matters. Mr. Alperin has also successfully prosecuted and defended S.L.A.P.P. (strategic lawsuit against public participation) motions, and he has been involved in the representation of both companies and individuals in employment litigation matters.

Mr. Alperin has represented numerous defendants (and has counseled numerous others) in connection with litigation involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Corporations in securities/business fraud cases. Additionally, Mr. Alperin has handled numerous federal and state court appeals relating to these matters.

Mr. Alperin’s transactional practice focuses on the representation of talent agencies, entertainment production companies, recording artists, as well as advertising, marketing and promotion companies. He handles a large variety of business matters for his clients, including the preparation and negotiation of various entertainment industry agreements and employment agreements. Mr. Alperin also advises and counsels clients in connection with their acquisition and sale of businesses.

Bar Admissions: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, New York, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court Central District of California, U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit.

 

ADVISORS

Harry Koenig [New York] Former COO Siegel+Gale, TPG Direct, LLKFB, Lowe Direct

Jayme Albin, Ph.D. [New York] Behavioral Psychology & Research

Mark Stone [Orange County] International Travel & Hospitality

INTERNS

Elliott Stone | Production Assistant