Credits

These are the people who make Ignite Phoenix happen. If you see them, give them a hug or buy them a drink!

If you want to get involved, let us know. We’re always looking for new voices and ideas to help Ignite Phoenix evolve.

Core Team:

Jeff Moriarty – Founder

Jeff’s driving passion is connecting people with ideas in new and interesting ways. He loves creating, exploring, and causing general shenanigans. It’s only through pushing our own limits, and challenging our preconceptions, that we really discover everything the world has to offer.

He consults with companies on social media through Improv Media, offers education and training to authors entering the world of digital publishing at ePublish Unum, and may or may not be involved in pranks and flash mobs around the Phoenix area.

Brian Carson – Speaker Coach and Audio/Video Manager

Honored with a Volunteer Of The Year award in 2008 by The Phoenix Business Journal, Brian Carson truly believes that you can accomplish anything in life as long as you’re prepared to serve others first. He is exercising that belief as our Speaker Coach for Ignite Phoenix. When Brian is not busy growing his Video Production Company, teaching as a Professional Speaking Coach, or consumed by his day job as a Media Producer at Intel Corporation, he enjoys working with his wife Linda to raise two ordinary kids who are accomplishing extraordinary things.

Alan Dayley – Speaker Selection Guide, Ticket and Venue Coordination

Alan aspires to be an atypical father, husband and software engineer. Be careful about bringing up terms like “Scrum,” “Agile Development” or “Linux” because his passion might come out! The Dayley Agile blog chronicles his agile development experiences. Passion for the wonders of human creativity and interaction fuel his drive to support communities like Ignite Phoenix.

Oden Hughes – Project Manager

Oden is your average amiable IT manager, wrestling requirements, timelines and unruly resources into manageable mild mannered projects. Enthusiastic about providing a happy and fulfilling workplace, she delights in lightening the workday with singalongs, emotional intelligence trainings, outdoor meetings and the occasional laser tag battle. When not in a nearby coffee shop fueling her caffeine addiction, she can often be found writing in a local book store or working on projects for one of the many community groups she supports.

Jana Knapp - Sponsor Wrangler

Jana Knapp has been working with nonprofit organizations in the valley since 1999. With a BA in Theatre Management and a MA in Organizational Management, she’s well equipped to help creative individuals and organizations achieve their goals. She specializes in herding (creatives, small children and Clumber spaniels) and in making things better (more formally know as process development and improvement). Her driving belief that Phoenix can be better is what brought her to Ignite.

Andy Woodward – Stage Manager and Presenter Herder

During Ignite Phoenix events, Andy is the king of backstage. In addition to coordinating all of the behind-the-scenes activity, he ensures that the speakers are in place and ready to go. This requires a tremendous amount of skill, along with the ability to use judo moves to take down presenters attempting to flee in fear before they go on stage.

In his spare time, Andy enjoys herding animals which are easier than Ignite presenters to deal with, particularly wildebeest and cats.

Erika Delemarre – Racket Rouser

When asked what she’s passionate about, Erika will hit you with a broad spectrum of obscurities from international travel and nature photography to live music, rowing and sustainability. She seeks truth and soul in everything she does and her unwillingness to sit still has led her on some incredible adventures. She’s quick to smile, quick to shout and guilty of occasionally taking life way too seriously.

For the past three years she has spent much of her time fleeing the lack of community in Phoenix. Though her restlessness made for a good excuse to travel the world, Erika knew she’d never be content at home unless she got her hands dirty and did something about it. With a background in marketing, design and music promotion and freshly inspired by Ignite Phoenix #7, Erika joined the team with the goal of integrating local music into the event. Working with local artists, she coordinates the live music and soundtracks for Ignite Phoenix.

When she’s not wayfaring, Erika is the Marketing Coordinator for Entertainment Solutions, Inc.

Fred von Graf – Web3Maven and Video Pusher

Fred is a principle driven person, with diverse interests in business, communications and technology. He melds his executive, people and project management background with 15 years of enterprise technology experience and a passion for the social to deliver real and attainable actions and strategies for businesses, organizations and individuals to use in engaging their communities and building stronger relationships.

Fred founded SocialMediaAZ.org, the driving force behind the premier Social Media for Business event in Arizona. He is active with several organizations including being on the board of the Business Marketing Association, ImprovAZ, Project Management Professionals, Western Pyrotechnics Association and the Arizona Interactive Marketers Association.

Fredis also a managing partner with Web3Mavens, LLC. a company specializing in helping businesses use new technologies and digital marketing to maximize returns.

Extended Team:

It takes a huge amount of time and effort to make Ignite Phoenix happen. These people are the ones who make sure there is always fuel for the fire by helping out in countless ways.

Andrew Ryno – Website Development

Yeager North – Website Design

Previous Credits:

We also want to make note of hard working individuals who, while not currently on the main team, have contributed massive amounts of time and passion to make Ignite Phoenix what it is today.