The Team
Experienced, imaginative, easygoing, inspiring
Mario Garcia Jr.
Mario Garcia Jr., President of Garcia Interactive, is a news designer with more than 15 years experience in helping newspapers, magazines, and web sites package and present news and information more effectively. He has led online redesign projects for over 100 organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, Newsday, Crains New York and La Tribune (France). He is a regular speaker at news media and design conferences.
John Duncan
John joined Garcia Interactive in 2006 after leading the turnaround of the Observer newspaper in London from 2000 to 2005. John, who has an MBA from the London Business School, was the strategist behind the launch of three award-winning monthly magazines in the paper, and led the Observer's online operation to become the fastest growing part of Guardian Unlimited. John is our head of PreDesign.
Frank Traina
Frank is Garcia Interactive’s project manager, the glue that keeps everything together. Frank has managed projects simultaneously for clients as far apart as India, the United States and Mexico. Frank’s background is in advertising having worked at the production coalface for four years at major agencies.
Jim Valdes
Jim is the engine room of our PreDesign team. Originally an engineer, he was running a Hollywood management/production company and was acknowledged in Hollywood as the expert in multimedia content before joining Garcia Interactive. Jim brings excellent experience in understanding and managing the creative process and holds an MBA from UCLA.
Jared Fager
Jared has that rare combination of design and code skills that allow the best work to come to life. Whilst studying fine arts in college, he taught himself to code. He then moved on to a four year stint as art director at Tricycle Studios in Tampa where he helped the company grow from a small video boutique to a full service creative and marketing firm. He is also the founder of Forkbomb Studios.
Contributing Consultants
Dan Rubin
Dan is a designer, programmer, singer and writer. He is one of the leading voices of modern compliant web design and is a sought after speaker at web design conferences and events. His credits with Garcia Interactive include Mint (India) and Crains New York.
John Miller
John Miller has worked as an art director and editor at numerous publications including Vanity Fair, HarperrCollins and Esquire. He has helped numerous companies re-engineer or create their web presence including the New Yorker and San Francisco Chronicle. He has worked with Garcia Media on projects for clients as diverse as the Department of Defense, Target, Newsday and Gulf News.
Mike Martino
Mike Martino has over 14 years experience designing and implementing sales strategies to sell both print and online advertising using a traditional “feet in the street” sales force. With his leadership, his team designed and executed plans supporting over 20,000 advertiser accounts, involving all aspects of a $3.5 million budget for revenue and expenses, including generating and rolling out new products, training sales forces, designing marketing plans, and managing the challenges of a distributed sales force.
