Angus Glover Wilson—President

Angus is a former executive at NBC-iVillage, and has managed dComm since its inception. He brings over ten years of digital media and marketing experience, both start-up and corporate, from both sides of the Atlantic. In his prior tenure at iVillage Inc., his roles included management of multi-million dollar revenue generators such as the company’s email marketing and e-commerce businesses, and the iVillage UK subsidiary. Angus studied for his BSc in Geology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Chris Harris—Creative Director

Chris is an ad veteran and filmmaker who began his 15-year career in brand advertising creating winning campaigns for clients such as Ford, McDonald’s and Hunt Wesson. Along the way Chris spent time at top agencies and spot production companies in New York, Boston and San Francisco where he became expert at the art and business of visual storytelling for television and online. Chris’s diverse portfolio of work includes having partnered with ESPN at the launch of the brand’s broadband channel, ESPN 360, and VOD platform to create original video programs featuring celebrities and athletes. Chris also partnered with Mercedes and its ad agency to create original video content for online featuring celebrity spokespersons such as choreographer, Mark Morris, around the launch of the Grand Sports Taurer. At dComm, Chris and his team have developed a powerful formula for advertisers called, Brand Smart^® direct response video, an award-winning approach seen in action for The March Of Dimes, DirecTV, Hooked On English by Hooked On Phonics, Total Gym and others. Chris is a graduate of Colgate University where he received a B.A. in English/Art, and captained the soccer team.

Lauren Leisenring—Senior Account Manager

Lauren began her direct response marketing career in the beauty buying office at QVC where she worked on such successful brands as Proactiv, philosophy, Dr. Denese, Clientele, L’Occitane, and Victoria Principal, to name a few. Additionally she worked in the health & fitness categories, on such high-profile accounts as NutriSystem and Total Gym. After 5 years with QVC, Lauren went on to work for international natural beauty-care giant, Yves Rocher, where she managed all direct response customer acquisition efforts for North America across the print and television online marketing channels, including the development and successful launch of the brand’s first U.S. DRTV program. The focus of her career has been marketing products directly to consumers via an integrated, multi-channel approach.

Marina Shafiro—Digital Media Director

Prior to joining dComm, Marina worked at several New York City based advertising agencies, implementing integrated media plans from planning to buying to optimization. She’s worked with blue-chip clients such as Colgate, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Milk as well as DR accounts such as Guthy-Renker; Proactiv and Sheer Cover, Scholastic, Pace University, Fred Alger Management, and more. In the digital arena her focus has been on integrated online marketing initiatives.

Edwin P. Garrubbo—Chairman

As CEO of dComm’s parent, Creative Commerce, LLC, Ed assists with strategy and planning. Prior to forming Creative Commerce, Ed was the CEO of American Telecast Products, LLC. His oversight and insights on more than a dozen celebrity-driven direct response television campaigns, including Christie Brinkley and Chuck Norris for Total Gym, Suzanne Somers, Cher, Victoria Jackson and Jane Fonda among others, helped make ATP into a premiere multi-channel marketer of consumer products. While at ATP, Ed negotiated the sale of ATP’s $100 million media buying subsidiary to a private equity firm. Currently, Ed serves as the Immediate Past Chairman for the Board of Directors of the Electronic Retailing Association, in Washington, D.C. and is a founding Board member of ERA Europe. Early in his career, Ed worked as an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable, LLP, in its Advertising, Marketing and New Media Practice Group.