Israel Sushman has over twenty years of experience in information technology and operations management (The Nature Conservancy) and Enterprise IT sales (Inacom, Compucom). His passion for everything digital has now morphed into a love of social media curation, blogging and digital marketing . He holds a B.A. degree in Music from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Some of his more interesting achievements include playing horns in funk & soul bands in and around Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and driving overland from Istanbul to New Delhi back-in-the-day. His interests include hiking, rare book collecting, music, and philosophy.
Nancy Murray is a marketing and communications executive with a thorough understanding of marketing, social media, content, customer engagement, and community building strategies. She has extensive sales and marketing, research, and communications experience at Fortune 500 companies such as MGM and Turner Broadcasting. She’s a strategy wonk with a proven ability to drive sales gains and increase brand awareness. Nancy began her sales and marketing career in second grade when she took out a phone book and cold-called people to read them a story. She holds a B.A. degree in Sociology from Pitzer College and completed an M.A. program in Art History with a focus on art criticism at Hunter College, CUNY. Her interests include hiking, cooking, writing and art.