Lyndsie Dittberner

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Lyndsie finds excitement and delight in the opportunity to wear many hats at Agency 50. Creating, collaborating, leading, strategizing, organizing, re-thinking—“doing it all” is her passion. It is her dream to foster a unique work environment that invites individuality, exploration, and creative growth within our truly amazing team.

SKILLS

• Winning
• Problem-solving
• Never backing down

Raul Varela

MANAGING PARTNER

Raul has been a design professional in Dallas, Texas for over 30 years and brings diverse design and business experience to every project he touches. He is also a serial entrepreneur that has helped launch half a dozen successful startups from the ground up in the past 20 years. He is currently cofounder and investor at PICKUP, a contactless, same day delivery service operating over 70 cities nationwide.

Adept in all communications channels from print to digital, his approach is introspective and methodical. Over the years, he has mastered the design and production process, ensuring that deliverables are executed flawlessly and deftly balance strategy with creativity. The result is marketing communication materials that are both intuitive and compelling.

SKILLS

• Mind reading
•Anticipating everything
•Multi-tasking

Levi Ness

SENIOR DESIGNER/DEVELOPER

Levi wears many hats throughout his day. He brings a unique position to the HB Team—operating with both the creative and analytical sides of his brain. Levi mixes a logic-motivated approach for problem-solving with a robust creative toolbox. This hybridization of skills allows him to have a distinctive vision of tasks and procedures. Strategic planning, design/brand implementation, and development are all part of his daily routine.

SKILLS

• Playing it cool
• Dodgeball
• Ingenuity

Danielle Shermer

SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR

Danielle is a driven marketing and sales professional with fifteen years of proven experience in client acquisition and management—a true creative with vast expertise in creating and implementing marketing strategies for clients over multiple platforms. She is a “big picture” thinker and loves designing and strategizing a plan to optimize all that social media can do for your business. She likes to think this profession in social media “keeps her young.”

Danielle is a people person and “connector” by nature and takes pride in networking with clients, acquaintances, friends, and family.

SKILLS

• Planning
• Multi-tasking
• A true wiz at reels

Shanice Burgess

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Shanice is a light-hearted creative that likes bringing the best out of any brand. Not easily rattled, she enjoys concurring any new challenges that come her way. Regardless if she is doing it alone or with a team, discovering impactful design solutions is her passion. When Shanice is not designing, you can find her excessively doting on her goldfishes and beta fish, or hanging out with family and friends.

SKILLS

• The appearance of tranquility
• Perfecting a design layout
• Snacking on the job

Jane Pak

SENIOR DESIGNER

Jane is a creative designer who specializes in logos, branding, web, and informational design. She graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design and has over 16 years of experience in the field. When not in front of the computer designing, Jane enjoys watching good movies and tv shows and going on adventures with her little sidekick.

SKILLS

• Creative problem solver
• Illustrator
• Data visualizer

David Hopson

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR

David was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began his career in Advertising as an Art Director and eventually became the Creative Director for the largest Hispanic agency in the USA.

To David, music and art have always been in his soul and he is focused on creating strategic marketing ideas, innovative creative concepts, art direction, and design to build brands. Developing highly creative work, inspiring and motivating creative teams, and delivering on-time projects with exceptional production value is the key to success.

SKILLS

• Winning awards – all of them
• Leading the charge
• Motivating creative teams

Dustin Collins

VP/BUSINESS DIRECTOR

Dustin brings 15 years of business development and executive-level sales team management. He has led numerous “Napkin to Transaction” initiatives with his vision and ability to take a client’s idea from notes on a napkin to a functioning, profitable operation.

He has demonstrated expertise in cultivating relationships, raising over $60M in funding for public and private clients in eight different industries, and has generated over $500M in revenue. He recently built a sales team for Norwood Energy and won 88 accounts in his first seven months.

SKILLS

• Listening and self-evaluating
• Leadership through empathy
• Sales, sales, and more sales

Jan Lohmann

CONTACT & ACCOUNT MANAGER

Jan protects her clients like a cougar. Wrapping them in her protective cape, she deflects marketing jargon, cliches, and vagarities of every kind, ensuring that communication projects thrive, sing with sparkling clarity, and hit their deadline. Spotting trouble before it arrives, Jan leaps into action to focus on a solution. Often she just encourages clients to see through the eyes of their readers. With lots of stakeholders on any given project, those cat-like reflexes result in better communication and trust between client and agency and better outcomes for all.

When she’s not crusading for a client, Jan is organizing and editing content. Her family teases her that she's spotted every typo on every menu and billboard in Texas. It’s a curse, but someone has to bear it.

SKILLS

• Active listening
• Ghost writing
• Logical thinking

Ryan Herget

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SKILLS

• Mind reading
• Multi-tasking
• The power of friendship