About Big Pink Ribbon

Asa Mathat
An artist in a long family line of artist has traveled the world, photographing the elite and the celebrated including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Lance Armstrong, Al Gore, George Bush and the Dalai Lama. His photographs have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post and with personal clients home and abroad.

Asa crafts his distinct style of fine art portraiture combining the intimacy of photography with his own creative vision and expertise, bringing passion and compassion to each and every shoot.

He has had the exclusive position to document the most coveted and prestigious technology events like TED, WSJ's "D" all things digital, EG Entertainment Gathering for decades.

Michael Girgis
At an early age, Michael entrenched himself in the entertainment business achieving "radio personality" status at 18 years of age and fronting a popular band and successful album and CD release by the age of 19. Michael founded and opened a popular restaurant/bar and entertainment complex at the age of 21 and operated it for 8 years. During his run with the hospitality industry, Michael developed a live comedy series, music festivals and brought the likes of The Second City touring group and Yuk Yuk's to Kingston's entertainment scene. Michael later went onto complete the RTA program in 1998 where he met and collaborated with his present business partners who now own and operate Fourth Wall Media and the Onestop Media Group, two award-winning and industry leading companies in the digital and interactive industry.

Featured by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the world's Top 35 under 35; Michael's principal function is directing Onestop Media Group's (OMG) long-term growth, which entails the strategic management and positioning of the company. Michael is a founding partner of OMG and sits on its board of directors where he leads the company's efforts in the establishment of long-term partnerships and strategic business. Michael is accountable for setting the company's principal business and financial objectives, including the ongoing assessment of such measures. One of Michael's main duties is to oversee the company's long-term growth strategy, vision and business development activities.

Michael is recognized by the international media community as the seasoned expert in the Out-of-home digital marketplace. Having received several awards on the behalf of OMG, Michael is frequently called upon to speak at industry events and conferences. Furthermore, Michael participates as an industry advisor for nextMEDIA, The Toronto Film Festival Industry Programming Group and as a jury member for the Digital Marketing Awards, The Canadian Marketing Awards, and The Canadian New Media Awards. Michael is the founding chair of the Canadian Out-of-home Digital Association (CODA). Michael is also a re-occurring speaker at the Digital Retailing Expo, the Retail Council of Canada's annual conference, The Shulich School of Business and Ryerson University.
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Lia Lorenzano-Kennett
Lia Lorenzano-Kennett has worked on the cutting edge of the personal technology industry almost since its inception the 1980s. Initially, she will assist Mr. Mathat with the intricate sculpture project and events.

Early on, she was a member of Apple Computer's famed evangelism group, for which she produced Apple's first-ever Worldwide Developers Conference and a series of creative events for Apple's third party developers. A graduate in art history, she has completed the prestigious Executive Leadership Program at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Ms. Lorenzano-Kennett has produced a host of high-end, high-impact events for technology product rollouts including Agenda, Demo, DemoMobile (now DemoFall) and Netscape's DevCon, Vortex. Today, now an independent producer, she thrives on crafting forums and developing opportunities for high-end discussion. Her clients include Dow Jones, Harvard Law School, International Data Group, Reed Business Information, Stanford's Institute for International Studies and August Capital. She also produces Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital.
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Kathi Lutton
Kathi Lutton combines business, marketing, and legal acumen with a passion for helping others succeed. Kathi came to the law with an engineering and management background and now manages Fish & Richardson as a member of its seven-person Management Committee. She also serves as the firm's Global Head of Litigation, managing the firm's largest practice group of 250 lawyers in 11 offices worldwide. When she took the helm at the age of 38, Kathi became the first woman to run the United States' largest intellectual property litigation practice.

Kathi's legal practice focuses on advising companies on intellectual property matters and leading high-profile, high-stakes, and high-tech patent litigation involving a myriad of technologies. Her clients run the gamut from Silicon Valley start-ups to Fortune 100 and other top companies throughout the world. Kathi has been named as one of the most influential women in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. She also has been recognized in varying ways as one of the best litigators in California. A full listing of recent awards and additional information on her practice can be seen in Kathi's law firm bio. Kathi is a frequent speaker on women's topics and serves on the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

While Kathi is widely acknowledged as operating at the top of her field, she is known to friends and in broader circles for her work outside the law, including her strong support of women's causes. Kathi is actively involved with Freshwater Haven and helping Michealene Risley and renowned human rights activist Betty Makoni expose the brutal treatment of young girls in Zimbabwe. Additionally, as a member of Fortune's Most Powerful Women network, Kathi spends a month each year mentoring a business woman from another country. See 1 and 2. As a follow up to the Fortune program, Kathi currently lends ongoing support to her first mentee, Susan Rammekwa, who runs an orphanage for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In addition to her commitment to women's causes, Kathi is an amateur photographer, guest food blogger, frequent marathoner - and mom.
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Pat McGovern, Jr.
Pat McGovern, Jr., an experienced marketing professional with many of the country's top technology-based companies, will serve in the packaging, sales and marketing of many of the Company's enterprises.

Mr. McGovern is the Vice President, Community & Services, for Splunk, Inc., a cutting-edge IT search company; the CEO/Vice President of WhereApps, Inc., a stealth startup that focuses on Location Based Services (LBS) on mobile devices; as well as the Chief marketing Officer (CMO) of Skout, Inc., a mobile, real-time, location-based dating platform that enables singles to meet and share photos and other user-generated content with other singles in their communities.

Mr. McGovern has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of San Francisco. His past positions include Director, SourceForge, the world's largest open-source development website; director, e-commerce, VA Linux, a build-to-order website selling Linux servers and workstations; and president & CEO, My-Website, Inc., and Netjet Communications. His father, Pat McGovern, Sr is the founder and chairman of CIO's parent, International Data Group, a $400 million technology publishing and research empire.
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Chris Shipley
Chris Shipley is chairman and CEO of Guidewire Group, Inc., a global analyst and advisory firm focused on early-stage technology companies. (www.guidewiregroup.com ). A leading technology and product analyst for 25 years, Chris is dedicated to the success of technology entrepreneurs, focusing exclusively on identifying market opportunities and building value into the most promising young companies. As the executive producer of the reknowned product launch conference DEMO from 1996 until September 2009, Chris identified and helped bring to market more than 1,500 products, including WebEx, VMWare, salesforce.com, TiVo, Xfire, Ribbit, and Ironport.

Chris has covered personal technology since 1984 and has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology and consumer media. She has won numerous awards for her writing and often has been cited as a leading influencer. Fortune Small Business Magazine called Chris one of “ten small business thinkers worth paying attention to” and the San Jose Business Journal named her a "Woman of Distinction."

She is on the board and past chairman of the Forum for Women Enterpreneurs and Executives, and is a board member and advisor to a number of early stage companies. Chris holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Literature and Communication Arts from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.
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Rick Smolan
Rick Smolan is a renowned professional photographer and businessman. He will work closely with Mr. Mathat on the Company's publishing projects.

Best known for his work as co-creator of two popular television series--A Day in the Life and America 24/7—he is the CEO of Against All Odds Productions, which Fortune magazine has called “one of the coolest companies in America.” Mr. Smolan specializes in the design and execution of large-scale projects that combine compelling storytelling with state-of-the-art technologies. His clients include Time, Life, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and National Geographic magazines. He has sold more than five million books, including The Obama Time Capsule, America at Home, UK at Home, Blue Planet Run, America 24/7, One Digital Day, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, Passage to Vietnam, The Power to Heal, and From Alice to Ocean.
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