About

Hi, I'm Jess. I help brands visually tell their story and leaders perform on the world's biggest stages. Details are my love language and I'm at my best when surrounded by teams who care deeply about craft.

Previously I worked with Collective Health to build a better US healthcare system, uncovered customer insights at Personal Capital, and helped launch pre-series A startups at Brinc in Hong Kong.

I grew up in an event business and got my early start designing film sets in Hollywood before spending years in industrial design learning the intricacies of bringing physical things to life at a global scale. Hit me up if you need to know where to hand loom an ikat rug or injection mold in southern China. That spatial foundation, natural curiosity, and deep systems thinking shape how I see and work today. 

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Selected Work

Brex Mode

Role: Event Designer

Mode was Brex's Intelligent Finance Summit spanning San Francisco and New York, I worked directly with internal teams to design every event touchpoint. From the main stage to environmental graphics, digital, social, and print, every surface was carefully considered and thoroughly documented to ensure fabrication nailed the delivery.

Check out Mode

Executive Keynotes

Role: Presentation Designer

Part of what I do is help people get on stage. It's intense, it's personal, and it's some of my most rewarding work. I've partnered directly with C-suite leaders at companies including CrowdStrike, AWS, and others to distill complex AI and financial narratives into high-stakes presentations. From Fal.Con and Re:Invent to Slush, Davos, WebSummit, and Fortune Brainstorm.

See Ilan on stage at Slush

Artist and The Machine

Role: Brand Designer

For their AI and Creativity Summit, Artist and The Machine brought together top creatives, brand leaders, founders, and cultural pioneers in Los Angeles. The day-long event featured conversations and keynotes at the intersection of art, technology, and culture. Grimes headlined, and I was invited to extend their brand system across wayfinding touchpoints, building a cohesive visual language throughout.

XoJet

Role: Brand Strategist

XOJET, a world-class private aviation company, needed a brand refresh to match their premium service experience. I joined the agency Novio to conduct workshops with pilots, flight engineers, and senior leadership alongside interviews with high-profile clients to uncover what made the brand genuinely different. Our insights led to "Take Command," launching across the New York Times, city billboards, and the WSJ. The research also included one very necessary private flight. For the work.

Audi Labs

Role: Creative Director / ID

I was invited to join Audi's Future of Driving Lab at Sonoma Raceway, a two-day event where designers, engineers, storytellers, and strategists were given the keys (literally) to an Audi A3. Our canvas was a car we could modify, dismantle, and reimagine from the ground up. The result was an exciting collection of concepts, short films, and radical prototypes showcasing our collective vision for the car of tomorrow.

Collective Health

Role: Senior Brand Designer

Collective Health is dedicated to improving the notoriously expensive and complicated US healthcare system. I collaborated with C-level and cross-functional teams to evolve the brand for its next growth phase, defining a new brand system, creating web prototypes to test messaging and UX, and transforming the homepage from a brand showcase into a sales conversion tool. The result successfully differentiated CH from competitors, with much of the system still in use today.

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