Colin O’Brien is currently the digital director for Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, brought in to transition a legacy print publication to digital-first. Before working with BRAIN, Colin has worked with outdoor brands and bloggers including Gear Institute, Chaco, Paddling […]
Pete helps the Roanoke Region leverage its natural assets to attract talent and investment. He developed roanokeoutside.com, founded America’s Toughest Road Marathon, and the GO Outside Festival (which happens to coincide with OBS) to help build brand recognition for the […]
Angel is the showrunner and host of the new outdoor adventure travel TV series, AWOL – Air Water OR Land, premiering on Amazon Prime Video early 2019. He has been a photographer for over 10 years, working initially in the […]
Maddie, a Minnesota native, moved to Montana two years ago to peruse her love for the outdoors and a mountain town lifestyle. She’s spent the majority of her career in the digital marketing world and now runs social media for […]
Bishop hosts Pubtelligence at Google, a Google Certified Publishing Partner Event. He has hosted 3 of the largest digital publishing events ever held at Google offices and is the Head of Marketing for the world’s leading provider of artificial intelligence […]
Derek Wolf started cooking over live fire as a stress relief from his corporate accounting job. He created Over The Fire Cooking as a way to document his adventures cooking in the great outdoor. After two years, he has amassed […]
Daniel Galhardo is the founder of Tenkara USA and the first person to introduce tenkara, a simple Japanese method of fly-fishing to the US. At Tenkara USA Daniel focuses on sharing the tenkara story and engaging an audience through a […]
Josh is an avid outdoor enthusiast and marketer. Starting ReddyYeti in 2015 to help small businesses and startups in the outdoor space grow without breaking the bank with their marketing expenses. To date Josh has worked with more than 150+ […]
Shannon serves as Brand Director for the Virginia Tourism Corporation, acting as “caretaker” of the Virginia is for Lovers brand. She also serves as Diversity and Inclusion Chair for the Public Relations Society of America, Richmond Chapter. Prior to VTC, […]
Regenold is a journalist and former writer for The New York Times. He created GearJunkie in 2002 as a nationally-syndicated newspaper column, growing it over a decade into a publication that now employs 10+ writers, producers, and support staff from […]
