Mentors: WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Summary of Qualifications A tech startup veteran with a diverse background in economics and music, Luke Rabin is an expert in the very first steps of turning ideas into excitingly simple products. Luke Rabin has had the rare opportunity to spend much of his career in the very first steps of some of Richmond’s most heavily funded tech startups. These hard-earned experiences on top of his background in economics from UVA and a stint in the music industry have made him extremely well prepared to help new teams navigate the uncertainty of creating new companies and products. After being both an in-house Product Manager and a consultant, Luke and his design partner Brandon Lewis started BLDR to put all of their lessons learned the hard way into an accelerated service for creating and validating new products. Luke’s experience and skillset are vital when it comes to problem and market validation, prototyping, messaging, and proving measurable traction without investing in code. Want to meet with this mentor? Talk with your Lead...
Summary of Qualifications Anne-Stuart is a marketing account manager for a local agency. She has worked in various fields, in both large and small businesses, which gives her a unique perspective. Her love of the Richmond community is what drives her to help local business grow. Anne-Stuart works for Addison Clark. Her job includes running multiple social media accounts, brand management, website development and fulfilling a myriad of other client needs. She is responsible for dozens of clients and has a knack for organization and managing priorities and expectations. For the social media accounts she runs, she generates original content, creates Facebook advertising campaigns and manages audience interactions. Another job responsibilities she has is maintaining websites, which includes creating content, website organization/set-up and other general maintenance. She also consults on branding for her clients. Other tasks she has enjoyed doing for her clients are: creating concepts for newspaper ad campaigns, newsletter generation and concepts/development for print materials, including brochures, rack cards and various other material like pens, notepads, etc. Before coming to Addison Clark, Anne-Stuart worked as an intern at the Retail Merchants Association. That experience introduced her to hundreds of local businesses and fueled her passion for local RVA businesses. Previous to that, she worked for Nordstrom as a department manager. Throughout her three-year management career with Nordstrom, Anne-Stuart gained valuable knowledge on team relationships, management styles and how to run a business, as running your own department is similar to running a small business. Anne-Stuart’s passions include, meeting interesting people, supporting local events, stores and other businesses, the world of social media, running and developing websites and...
Summary of Qualifications Andrew Davies’s multifaceted interests have taken him from small beginnings in advertising at the largest agency on the island of Barbados, to the bowels of Mississippi where he helped build the ad agency now known as MadGENIUS Creative Fusion. In between, he managed to throw in some stints at The Weather Channel, Eyevox Film and Video Production and co-found award winning, multi-disciplined design firm Paragon Design Group to boot. As “the most Jamaican person at Paragon”, Drew now leads the creative team where, in addition to speaking to groups on matters of design and creativity, he straddles the worlds of print, web and motion graphics, working in concept and production of all three. He’s also managed to convince venues like the One Showcase, Layers magazine, American Corporate ID, Hoffstra University Press and the Travelling Caribbean Film Festival to show his work, somehow. He’s recently released his own DVD of animated Jamaican folk stories while working on a few high falutin’ projects for clients like American Express, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, CNN International, Gulfstream Aerospace and Anthem Healthcare, along with some top-secret ones that he can’t even mention. While those are fun, he likes to stay grounded by changing the world, working for non-profits like TEDxCreativeCoast, Deep Center, AWOL (All Walks Of Life) Inc. and CAVU (Clear Air Visibility Unlimited). Ready to meet with this Lead Mentor? Schedule An...
Summary of Qualifications Larkin is the Chief Imagination officer of 804RVA, a Richmond based technology coworking space. She is a civic instigator, a professional community curator and a full stack ecosystem builder. Larkin is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for small businesses, growing the technology sector in Richmond, and community building. Larkin has a diverse background with careers and businesses in real estate, the spa industry, construction, and technology. Within one year of graduating, she purchased her first business, James River Tile & Stone Art which she owned and operated for eight years until 2012 when she caught the startup bug and decided to closed down to focus full time on launching 804RVA, a technology coworking space. As the founder of 804RVA, Larkin has proven her business acumen and professional community building skills by turning 804RVA into a sustainable business. Within two years, 804RVA has become a leader and educator in the technology sector. Larkin has grown the membership base to 80 paid members and hosted over 350 meetup events with a growing community of more than 1,300 attendees. Ready to meet with this mentor? Schedule An...
Summary of Qualifications Andrew is a Co-Founder of Workshop Digital, a Richmond-based digital marketing firm. Andrew’s career began at The Martin Agency where he developed a specialty in digital media planning and transitioned to the CarMax Home Office to oversee web marketing strategy. Andrew launched Your Search Advisor in 2007 and merged with Dynamic Web Solutions to form Workshop Digital in 2015. Throughout his career, Andrew has worked with Fortune 100 brands and startups with a pragmatic approach that emphasizes Strategy, Testing, Analysis, and Results. When he is not buying clicks, Andrew can be found outdoors or tinkering in the garage workshop. Ready to meet with this mentor? Talk with your Lead...
