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Drawn to photography from a young age, a career involving cameras was a natural progression that would inspire Rodney Evans to travel the world, eventually leading to China in 2005.

With over 20 years of experience, Carrie is passionate about building teams and developing intelligent, data-informed creative executions in high-volume, growth-focused organizations. Prior to Beachbody, Carrie led the design and build of a 10,000-square-foot studio for HelloFresh in Industry City, Brooklyn, following her leading the first-ever performance creative team for the HelloFresh portfolio of brands. Previously, Carrie worked agency side for innovation brands at Mars Wrigley, Revlon and at Caastle, a fashion rental subscription platform.

Ashley Edwards has 15 years of experience as a project & production manager and has previously held positions at West Elm, Etsy, and Cole Haan. She is passionate about making creative operations a common practice within design teams, with a focus on streamlining processes and implementing new tools that support the design process. 

She has a B.A. in English Literature from Reed College with a focus on poetry & poetics, and is currently working towards her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Gary Goldsmith is a Design Program Manager on the Design Learning & Development team at Facebook. Gary focuses on making knowledge and learning opportunities more accessible for the Design community through centralizing resources, streamlining approaches to scaling high quality educational programming and providing consultative services focused on team engagement, community building and program management excellence.

Kalee Dankner (she/her) leads Horizontal Design Operations at LinkedIn, which consists of design and research program managers working on design systems, trust, accessibility, tools, content design & research. The team thrives on empowering creative, collaborative, and productive Design teams to create world class member experiences. Originally from Gainesville, Florida, Kalee earned her MS in Advertising from Boston University. She recently moved to Denver, CO and is passionate about exploring her new city, local food systems, travel and spending time with her family. 

Jilanna leads Design & Research Operations at Zendesk, where she has pioneered the development of the Operations Program over the last 5.5 years, scaling from a team of 1 to 18. Spanning across both Product and Brand Design, she is responsible for all Design and Research operations and programs including: resourcing, production schedules, community building, learning & development and business operations. She acts as a strategic partner to the Design Leadership team, developing the infrastructure that will enable and inspire the Design teams to do their very best work.

James Sanderson leads ICP’s Creative Operations and Creative Production capabilities. He joined ICP from Wunderman Thompson where he founded and was global head of Wunderman Thompson Inside, WPP in-housing solution. Previously James has was COO of Oliver, President of Digitas UK and COO of digital agency Glue Isobar, at the time the UK’s most celebrated digital agency.