CMN Appoints Board of Advisors
COREY MCPHERSON NASH ANNOUNCES BOARD OF ADVISORS
BOA Includes Notable Names in World of Business, Technology and Design
WATERTOWN, MA - Feb. 25, 2003 -- Corey McPherson Nash (CMN/ http://www.cmndesign.com), an award-winning integrated design firm providing branding, advertising, print and interactive services, today announced it has appointed a Board of Advisors. The Board of Advisors members include Matthew Carter, a type designer with more than 40 years of experience in typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts; Barbara Johnson, a business leader who has spent nearly 15 years in CEO or COO positions for both start up and emerging companies; Felice Kincannon, co-founder of Marketspace, a company responsible for the development of the various media channels including print, Web and video; and Christopher Meyer, vice president and director of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation. The Board of Advisors will meet with CMN partners on a regular basis and will serve CMN in helping it define its corporate direction to keep pace with shifts in business, design, technology and the overall global landscape.
"We are honored that a group of such experienced and visionary leaders has agreed to be part of our Board of Advisors," said Andrea Naddaff, CMN partner. "Our philosophy at CMN is based on creating thoughtful design in branding, interactive and print. The guidance provided by our Board of Advisors will ensure our work continues to be fresh, compelling, provocative and meets the needs of our client base across a variety of industries."
About the Corey McPherson Nash Board of Advisors
Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter is a type designer with more than 40 years of experience of typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies, Matthew was a co-founder in 1981 of Bitstream Inc., the digital type foundry, where he worked for 10 years. Matthew is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., designers and producers of original typefaces.
Matthew's type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian (for newspaper text), Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter, and faces for Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Devanagari. For Carter & Cone, he has designed Mantinia, Sophia, Elephant, Big Caslon, Alisal and Miller.
Carter & Cone has produced types on commission for Apple, Microsoft (the screen fonts Verdana and Georgia), Time, Newsweek, Wired, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times and the Walker Art Center.
Matthew speaks frequently at conferences, colleges and chapters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He is a Royal Designer for Industry, a member of AGI, chairman of the type designers' committee of ATypI and a Senior Critic on Yale University's Graphic Design faculty. Matthew has received the Frederic W. Goudy Award for outstanding contribution to the printing industry, the Middleton Award from the American Center for Design, a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the AIGA medal and the Type Directors Club medal. He holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts.
Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnson has spent nearly 15 years as the CEO or COO of New York-based companies, holding top jobs in a Fortune 100 company and startups. She has raised more than $225 million in private equity and managed the sale of two companies. Barbara has conceived and created products, negotiated joint ventures with multinational companies and operated businesses with 50 to 700 employees. She has had hands-on responsibility for virtually every business function, from sales and finance to product development, branding, legal affairs, systems and human resources. In addition to her work with new companies, Barbara is a partner in a venture capital firm and director of public and private companies.
Barbara and her entrepreneurial work have been the subject of features in Fast Company, People, USA Today, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Industry Standard, VentureWire, Editor & Publisher and CNET.
Felice Kincannon
A Marketspace co-founder, Felice Kincannon is responsible for the development of the various media channels, including print, Web and video, that Marketspace employs to deliver its services.
Before coming to Marketspace, Felice ran her own interactive-media strategy practice, advising clients in the catalog, training, financial services and grocery industries on e-commerce issues. As a consultant to Omnicom, she led the strategy that resulted in the advertising conglomerate's investments in the Web-development companies Agency.com, Organic, Razorfish, Red Sky Interactive and Think New Ideas.
Before becoming an independent consultant, Felice worked for 15 years at Boston-based advertising agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopoulos, where she focused on international markets, headed up the media department, managed the startup of the direct-marketing profit center and spent two years managing the Boston office.
Felice is an advisory board member of Internet-based database management company Veridiem and holds board positions with Burst Media and Circle Lending. She is a member of the MIT Council for the Arts.
Christopher Meyer
Christopher Meyer is a vice president and the director of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation. The Center is charged with identifying the issues that will be challenging business in the future, and defining responses to them; as director, Chris is responsible for establishing the Center's research agenda. His own current research interests include the development of a New Theory of the Firm, the implications for management of new discoveries in complexity and self-organizing systems and the development of the "connected economy."
Chris is an authority on the evolution of the information economy, the innovative use of information, and its impact on strategy, shareholder value, and "informationalization" of the firm. Chris established the BIOS Group, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's initiative to develop complexity-based solutions for management. He has more than 20 years of general management and economic consulting experience. With Stan Davis he co-wrote BLUR: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy (Addison-Wesley, 1998), FutureWealth (Harvard Business School Press, 2000), and It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (Crown, 2003).
About CMN
Now celebrating its 20th year of business, CMN provides thoughtful design solutions for branding, print and interactive communications for clients including Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols, Eastman Kodak, Clear Channel Communications and Cubist Pharmaceuticals, among others. With capabilities in print and interactive media, CMN analyzes and enhances brand equity throughout all applications. For more information, contact Andrea Naddaff at 617-924-6050 or email anaddaff@cmndesign.com.