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Mark Sejvar brings more
than 20 years in agency and corporate public relations experience to his
role as CEO of the marketing communications firm HypeHouse. Keenly experienced
in crisis communications and situation management, his proven, award winning
writing and ongoing editor contacts with top trade, consumer and broadcast
media worldwide, has effectively established him as a key media relations
professional in the lifestyle industries, including fashion, hair and skin
care, furniture, travel, health and environmental communication.
A career in communications came naturally to Sejvar, an outgoing, self-starter
who ran his high school’s publications while also working for the
local NBC news station. Always one to multi-task, Sejvar completed his
master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications while launching
the new Iowa Tourism Building. No small assignment, this state-run venture
required Sejvar to fill the empty building with interactive information
and entertainment while promoting the new facility to the media and public.
The 1990 launch was a huge success and he spent the next few years with
both in-house marketing departments and independent PR firms working with
well-known companies such as Sunglass Hut and Target/Dayton Hudson.
In 1992 Sejvar was hired by Aveda Corporation, the world’s largest
producer of pure flower and plant essence products, to establish and implement
a marketing and public relations plan for their spa. He created an impressive
success story by raising Aveda Spa sales 160 percent within a year. This
success established Sejvar as a strategic business entrepreneur and motivated
Aveda, based in Minneapolis, to expand their facilities throughout the
world. During his first five years with Aveda, Sejvar was also Aveda Founder
and CEO Horst Rechelbacher’s personal media relations coordinator,
traveling together to major store openings and events as well as providing
marketing consulting for new ventures.
Sejvar moved on within Aveda to co-found an experimental venture with
Aveda Co-President Nicole Rechelbacher. Sejvar’s responsibilities
included strategic business planning, marketing communications, and team
management for “Anatomy”, a cutting edge concept devoted to
producing environmentally and socially responsible clothing and accessories,
and challenging the fashion industry with a strong educational message.
This unique business lab allowed Sejvar to combine his proven marketing
skills with his entrepreneurial drive, growing his expertise and knowledge
in market projections, business planning, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution
and people management. An idea ahead of its time, recent designer lines
have benefited from the fashion forward technologies of recycled fabrics
and sustainable accessories introduced by Anatomy.
In 1996 Sejvar co-founded marketing and design firm HypeHouse, Inc. where
he continued to work closely with Aveda, launching their Intelligent Nutrients
line of supplements and providing strategy and management of Aveda’s
public relations during their 1997 acquisition by the Esteé Lauder
Companies.
Sejvar re-located HypeHouse to Los Angeles in the summer of 1999, where
he immediately expanded his list of clients to include technology, high-end
retail boutiques and distinct individuals like author Libby Gill, LastMinuteTravel.com
and The Cotton Box (founded by super-model Kelly Emberg), while continuing
to service beauty industry luminaries like Vidal Sassoon and Cosmoprof,
the industry’s largest global event. Sejvar’s proven methodology
for creating strategic Marketing and PR plans consistently places his client’s
in major consumer and BtoB media including placement on top television
shows on Discovery, E! and FOX.
Further realizing his unique expertise, Sejvar co-founded HypeHouse Media,
Inc. (HMI) in 2004 to create, develop and implement innovative media content
strategies that connect the talent, products and trends of the beauty industry
directly to consumers. HMI has already achieved a number of exciting firsts
with a new ground-breaking television show called Beautyphile: the first
television show to be endorsed by The PBA (The Professional Beauty Association)
and the first time that television viewers meet the people, products and
trends of the professional beauty industry from the perspective of the
industry itself, including Vidal Sassoon, Tigi, American Crew, Paul Mitchell,
BioIonic and Trevor Sorbie.
Sejvar’s extensive portfolio includes placements in The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, LA Business
Journal, LA Times, Business Week, Fox News, CNN Headline News, US News
and World Report, Extra, People, InStyle, Architectural Digest, American
Salon, Modern Salon, In Furniture, Good Day LA, USA Today, Vogue, W, Teen,
Elle, WWD, Cosmopolitan and syndicated stories with Associated Press.
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An international brand communications executive with more than 18 years of
experience, Anne White has provided her creative and marketing expertise
to clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and luminaries
in the entertainment industry. White’s career bridges technology, commercial,
film, television and consumer projects with clients as diverse as Prince,
Steven Spielberg, SC Johnson, CBS, TiVo, Medtronic, Aveda, and entertainment
companies in Asia, Europe and North America. White’s exposure to these
various industries, cultures and business models serves as a key to her strategic
business acumen.
As Principal and Managing Director of TAG, White was a primary force in
charting the 2001 launch of the creative brand solutions company as well
as responsible for overseeing creative and strategic projects including
corporate identity and brand development in the emerging technologies,
entertainment and commercial areas of entertainment. Clients include Hallmark
Channel, TBS, SOAPnet, WB, Sony Pictures Television, NDTV, Club, Celestial
Pictures, Zone Vision, Astral Media, Buena Vista, DIY, E!, and MGA Entertainment.
Prior to the launch of TAG, White was an Executive Producer and Head of
Business Development for 3 Ring Circus where she utilized her team-building
abilities and marketing expertise to successfully diversify their services
and client base. She led the company’s diversification into new areas
of growth at the onset of one of the most dynamic entertainment landscapes
of our times, securing and leading multiple projects simultaneously with
budgets ranging from $50,000 to $4 Million for clients such as Canal+ US
Technologies, DIRECTV, Target, TechTV, Netscape, CreativePlanet.com, DreamWorks
Pictures, DES, Transamerica, AOL and Fox Family.
White was recruited to Los Angeles in January 1999 from HypeHouse Inc.
in Minneapolis, a marketing communications and design firm she co-founded
in 1996. Prior to HypeHouse, she mastered a variety of disciplines, including
award-winning design, creative direction, postproduction, motion graphic
effects, news promotion for NBC and ABC affiliates, as well as ad agency
experience. As a creative director and producer, White has implemented
concept-to-content strategies in film, video and print for companies such
as Coca-Cola, US Banks, Honeywell, Pillsbury, 3M, Rollerblade, Room and
Board, and Best Buy.
White has recently proven to be a discerning entrepreneur in touch with
current and future trends, co-founding HypeHouse Media, Inc. (HMI) in 2004
to create, develop and implement innovative media content strategies that
connect the talent, products and trends of the beauty industry directly
to consumers through engaging and informative entertainment. White is the
creator and executive producer of the first television show to be endorsed
by the Professional Beauty Association, “Beautyphile”.
A frequent public speaker on design and key issues facing the broadcast
design industry, White holds an adjunct faculty position in the Digital
Media department of OTIS College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. White
serves as Vice Chairperson on the Executive Board of Directors for PROMAX,
as well as being immediate past Chairperson of BDA. The recipient of numerous
BDA awards, White has served on their Board of Governors since 1997. PROMAX & BDA
are the world's foremost professional organizations working on behalf of
those involved in promotion, marketing and design of electronic media.
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