Team

The Empax team is a unique mix of professionalism and creativity. Peek at our team members’ bios and see who else is in our orbit.

 

Martin Kace

Martin Kace

Martin Kace is plagued with seeing things – mostly he sees unlimited opportunities where others often see obstacles.

 
 
 

Delphine Guenin

Delphine

Delphine has an eye for design, a mind for organization and a heart for social progress. After receiving a degree in journalism in France, Delphine entered the design world. Over the last five years she has worked as a Creative Coordinator a…

 
 
 

Ehud Tal

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Ehud Tal is Empax’s strategist and art director. He was born in Tel Aviv, where he began his art and design education at the tender age of eight.

 
 
 

Holly Lynch

Holly Lynch

Holly is an advertising, strategic planning and communications veteran, with over 11 years experience at agencies such as Ogilvy and BBH. She has worked on the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Self-Esteem fund, has consulted with Procte…

 
 
 

Matthew Goodrich

Matthew Goodrich

Matthew brings both dynamism and refinement to every aspect of design – from web and motion design to exhibits and information projects. After graduating from the University of Washington Visual Communication Design Program, he was cho…

 
 
 

Penney Henry

Penny

Penney Henry

A New Yorker through and through, Penney embodies both energy and organization. She brings commercial and social sector experience to Empax, and masterfully keeps all our systems up and running. Penney’s professional expe…

 
 
 

Veronica Wilson

Veronica Wilson

Born and raised in northern California, Veronica headed east for college, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Photojournalism from Syracuse University, and subsequently has been asked, “Why did you ever leave the west coast for…

 
 

Contributors

 
 

Amir Hadad

Amir Hadad

Amir gets offers everyday for his domain name fuckgoogle.com but still hasn’t received the right one to sell. He is the former art director of Israel’s most widely circulated weekend paper, Seven Days. He is married to Shira and splits his t…

 
 
 

Andy Outis

Andy Outis

After losing his first design job to the fallout of the dot-com bust in San Franciso, Andy Outis started a design studio, Shift 7, to be able to practice design during a time when few design jobs were available. Shift 7 designed identities, pr…

 
 
 

Asi Burak

Asi Burak

As Co-President of Games for Change, Asi leads on the curation, development and execution of programs and services to raise the production, quality and influence of social impact games, and serves as a spokesperson for the organization….

 
 
 

Caroline Zieth

Caroline Zieth

Caroline Zieth grew up in Green Lake, Wisconsin. She brings diversity to Empax in the form of Christmas and a career in which she has so far assisted in research at a top national stem cell laboratory, a national organization committed to the…

 
 
 

Caryn Farber

Caryn Farber

Caryn Farber brings a wide range of talent, experience and a vast network from around the globe.

 
 
 

Clement Wu

Clement Wu

Clement Wu grew up in Boston and moved to New York after completing an economics degree at Harvard. He joined The New York Times as an aspiring journalist and left as a designer specializing in digital media. He has also held design positions…

 
 
 

David Ricart

David Ricart

Raised and born in Barcelona, Spain, David Ricart has a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design from Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts.

 
 
 

Dennis Cahlo

Dennis

Dennis Cahlo is the brains behind the music of Empax. He is also the owner and founder of Aphelion Studios and lives in Brooklyn.

 
 
 

Elana Dweck

Elana Dweck

Elana Dweck is a graphic designer with an MFA in Design from the School of the Visual Arts. Before attending SVA, she worked as a freelance designer and received her bachelor’s degree in communications and graphic design from NYU. Elana lov…

 
 
 

Emily ! Duong

Emily ! Duong

Emily was born and raised in Queens, NY, high schooled in the suburbs of New Jersey, and attended undergrad in sunny Florida.

 
 
 

Esther Wu

Esther Wu

Armed with a degree in Biology, Esther went to work in a lab in New York City doing contraception research. She did some web design on the side and took web classes at night. She took a course in Typography, not knowing exactly what that was. The…

 
 
 

Fred Truman

Fred Truman

Fred materialized from the land of the swamp donkey and loves a good lightning show.

 
 
 

Gwen Waldron

Gwen Waldron

Gwen escaped Connecticut early on. They are still looking for her.

 
 
 

Irina Lee

Irina

Irina is a graphic designer with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Maryland College Park and a Master’s degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts. As a designer, Irina believes in creating positive so…

 
 
 

Jennifer Daniel

Jennifer Daniel

Jennifer Daniel was raised in the red state of Kansas and at a young age she confused the locals by abstaining from driving a car or eating meat. After studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art she moved to New York and began drinking fo…

 
 
 

Jessica Honikman

Jessica Honikman

Jessica Honikman was born in the UK and received a BA in History from the University of Manchester. A few years later she found herself cleaning up page layouts at an ad agency and so began her design career. She has since created printed mater…

 
 
 

Jonathan Nachum

Jonathan Nachum

Jonathan Nachum was born in a manger outside of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. When he was old enough, he escaped to Washington DC.

 
 
 

Julie Tinker

Julie Tinker

Julie spent her earliest years in a small radius of Northern California. Later, she attended Stanford University where she picked up a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and a Master’s in Sociology. Upon graduating she dabbled in the no…

 
 
 

Kathleen Raftery

Kathleen Raftery

Kathleen is a native New Yorker and a graduate of NYU. Fresh out of college she headed west to Oregon where she wrote articles and sold ad space at Yoga Northwest Magazine.

 
 
 

Kimiyo Nakatsui

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Hailing from that elusive nation to the North, Kimiyo wandered into the wonderful world of design via Australia, the Yukon and Uruguay — a fabulously indirect path. Kimiyo has a Master’s in Design from the School of Visual Arts in New…

 
 
 

Lara McCormick

Lara McCormick

Raised in Berkeley, California, Lara McCormick has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UCLA and a Masters of Fine Art in Design from the School of Visual Arts. She’s been working in the industry for over ten years, both as designer a…

 
 
 

Marc Rabinowitz

Marc Rabinowitz

Marc was born in Brooklyn (where he lived the first half of his life) and moved to Miami were he lived the second half of his life. He is currently enjoying the third half of his life in New York City. As a designer in Florida, he worked for studios…

 
 
 

Masood Ahmed Bukhari

Masood Bukhari

Masood Ahmed is an award-winning graphic designer and graffiti artist based in New York City.

 
 
 

Nick Acemoglu

Nick

Nick Acemoglu is a graphic designer originally from Albany, NY. He obtained his MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in 2009. Over the past two years Nick has done work for a wide range of clients including Hunter College, Lou Reed and P…

 
 
 

Ruth Kace

Ruth Kace

Ruth recently got herself through high school in Brooklyn. Now that she can no longer kvetch aimlessly about homework assignments from teachers, she mills about her father’s office bothering his employees and actually doing some…

 
 
 

Steve Haslip

Steve Haslip

Steve Haslip is originally from a quaint little village in the Southern countryside of England. Ambition seduced him into moving to the hustle and bustle of London where he studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins. After graduatin…

 
 
 

Steven Smith

Steven Smith

Steven Smith hails from Texas. And he can see that look on your face so he’d like to point out that a) he was born and raised in San Antonio and b) he left almost as soon as he could. Once in New York, he told jokes at seedy open-mics in and arou…

 
 
 

Uri Leventer

Uri Leventer

From a young age Uri found meaning in story-telling.