Team

Meet the makers.

Overview

We asked our team to choose a piece of art that represents them. From Caravaggio to Emigre, from Swiss modernism to Memphis chaos. Different backgrounds, different influences, same high standards.

We asked our team to choose a piece of art that represents them. From Caravaggio to Emigre, from Swiss modernism to Memphis chaos. Different backgrounds, different influences, same high standards.

Alex Athanasiou

Audience & Partnerships

Alex Blumfelder

Managing Director

Antonia Lazar

Head of Program Management

Arielle Kroloff

Associate Director, Strategy

Brian Collins

Co-Founder, Designer

Claire Banks

Program Director

Daniel Ferro

Design Director

Dilayla Solorzano

Office Assistant

Drea Isasi

Program Director

Eigo Cong

Creative Technologist

Elizah Van Lokeren

Executive Operations Associate

Eric Park

Senior Motion Designer

Eron Lutterman

Audience & Partnerships

Evan White

Associate Designer

Hayden Zellers

Program Director

Jae Jeon

Senior Designer

Jaeyou Chung

Design Director

Jeremie Wimbrow

Design Director

Jessica Lai

Associate Designer

John Choi

Senior Motion Designer

Jonathan Katav

Design Director

Katie Branham

Accounting Assistant

Katya Watkins

Creative Operations Director

Kim Unger

IT & Systems Director

Klaudia Gladysz

Senior Director of People Ops

Leland Maschmeyer

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Lucas Howard

Senior Program Manager

Madeleine Carrucan

Associate Creative Director, Story

Marjeta Lloshi

Design Intern

Mason Lin

Designer

Mimi Jao

Designer

Mina Son

Associate Designer

Morgan Light

Design Director

Nicholas Fearnley

Design Director

Owen Oh

Designer

Rebecca Smith

Financial Analyst

Rik Ito

Chief Financial Officer

Rohan Rege

Senior Designer

Rory King

Design Director

Sam Eliot

Managing Director

Selina Wu

Associate Designer

Sergio Lairisa

Senior Designer

Steffi Katz

Business Strategist, Associate

Stephen Dalton

Creative Director, Story

Taamrat Amaize

Chief Strategy Officer

Tom Elia

Executive Creative Director, Story

Vasavi Bubna

Designer

Treehaus

Annual Retreat

Once a year, we step away from the day-to-day. No meetings, no screens, no big agenda. Just time given to each other.

We go to a house we call the Treehaus. No, it’s not in a tree. But the Bauhaus does have deep roots on Cape Cod, and this one fits the name. It’s quiet. A little old. The architect’s roots in Dutch modernism are clear.

We cook. We clean. We eat. We hang out—at the table, on walks, standing by the sink. Drying dishes, it turns out, is where some of the best conversations happen. Maybe because your hands are busy and your mind isn’t.

Some of our favorite chefs come up from New York. They bring crates and baskets and a bunch of ideas they want to try. One night it’s Michelin-level technique. The next, it’s lobster rolls on paper plates.

Midweek, we take the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard. We wander. No one’s in charge. We stop by the “Gingerbread” houses and visit a hand-carved carousel from 1876 that still runs the way it did when Ulysses S. Grant came to see it.

Back on the mainland, we spend time in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where scientists study oceans, pigments, and patterns in nature. They talk about the invisible, the interdependent, the almost-gone. We like the way they think.

Not far from the Treehaus sits one of Buckminster Fuller’s first geodesic domes. Built in the 1950s, when people still believed design could save the world. It’s weathered storms, neglect, time—but the structure holds. Some of us walk over to take a picture. Others head down to the beach.

And that’s the whole point, really. Nothing grand. Just time together.

Photography by Max Kütz