Shaun King
CEO - Founder
Shaun King is one of the most respected social entrepreneurs and humanitarians in the world. His social media and web projects have raised over $5,000,000 for charity, received over 100 million web hits, and recently won the Mashable Award for Most Creative Social Good Campaign.
Rai King
Director of Operations
Rai, a proud graduate of Spelman College, is a meticulous organizer and helps keep the day to day operations of HopeMob on the right track. An experienced educator and mother of five, she is also a master at Words with Friends!
Chad Kellough
CTO - Co-Founder
Chad Kellough has served as Chief Technology Officer & Lead Designer for some of the most effective, popular, creative, and celebrated online social good campaigns of the past five years. His award winning work has appeared on Ellen, front page of Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Mashable and CNN.
Blake Jordan
Developer
Blake Jordan is the Lead Developer at HopeMob and understands the need for better developers in a non-profit world. Blake has a passion for making what seems impossible, possible. Like everyone else at HopeMob, Blake is probably walking around right now with 3 or 4 different versions of HopeMob on a scratch pad in his back pocket.
Chad King
Designer
Chad King is a designer / strategist / marketing visionary with an eye for details while still understanding the 30,000 foot view of campaigns and projects. Not only has Chad been instrumental in creating the graphics and brand of HopeMob, his work can be seen all over the web and major print pieces including USA Today.
JC Lopez
Designer
JC Lopez is a designer and strategist for an accomplished marketing agency in Charleston, SC which focuses their creative efforts helping non-profit organizations and ministries. He utilizes his artistic talents ranging from photography to musician / songwriter to bring designs to life. JC infuses his work with a passion for creativity and design diversity.
Andrea Burns
Social Media Coordinator
Andrea Burns is an activist at heart, Andrea has a Masters Degree in Market Research and has worked for several award winning companies, startups, and humanitarian ventures. She helps masterfully manage the HopeMob social media presence.
Lucas Donat
Lucas is a founding partner of dw+h and oversees creative development. His campaigns have generated over $1 billion in sales for clients including 21st Century, TrueCar, eHarmony, LegalZoom, Hotwire, Mattel Toys, Columbia, MGM/UA and Sony. In addition, Lucas has directed and produced scores of television commercials throughout his advertising career. He was the primary architect behind the advertising success of eHarmony and is credited with making it a household name.
Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons is an activist for cultural innovation and has traveled the world as a leadership coach & social entrepreneur. He has launched amazing communities of change on four continents. Dave is a celebrated strategist and has served on the board of several award-winning non profits – including World Vision.
Penny Hunter
Formerly the Vice President of Communications at International Justice Mission (IJM), Penny is a widely respected strategist and grassroots marketing specialist with over 20 years of experience helping to mobilize people in the social good space.
Claire Diaz-Ortiz
Claire Diaz-Ortiz leads social innovation at Twitter where she has worked since 2009 and was recently named by Fast Company as one of 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Claire manages Twitter’s philanthropic, social good, and cause marketing initiatives, including the Twitter for Nonprofits and Twitter Ads for Good programs. She also works closely with religious leaders and organizations. She is a frequent international speaker at such diverse conferences as South by Southwest, BlogWorld, Personal Democracy Forum, and United Nations events. She is known for developing the TWEET model — a framework to help organizations and individuals best excel on Twitter.
Claire holds an MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Skoll Foundation Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship. She also holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University.
Joey Leslie
Joey is currently a Principal in the Causemedia Group and President of StudioGood.
Joey brings over 17 years of award winning experience creating and managing unique social good campaigns for major entertainment studios, large national charities and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He’s directed online and offline cause campaigns that have raised over $100 million for non-profits across the United States. StudioGood clients include: WeberShandwick, UNICEF, eBay, PayPal, Pepsi, Be The Match, Points of Light and hundreds more.
Joey brings over 17 years of award winning experience creating and managing unique social good campaigns for major entertainment studios, large national charities and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He’s directed online and offline cause campaigns that have raised over $100 million for non-profits across the United States. StudioGood clients include: WeberShandwick, UNICEF, eBay, PayPal, Pepsi, Be The Match, Points of Light and hundreds more.