December, 2006 - NIA Creative grows design and sales teams

NIA closes out 2006 with the acquisition of two key positions – Nicklaus Deyring as Art Director and Mickie Tagle as Sr. Account Director.

Nicklaus Deyring comes to NIA with over 10 years experience in interactive media and motion graphics as well as experience with advertising, branding and collateral design. As Art Director, Nicklaus will work closely with Creative Director Chris Finetti in developing concepts, executing interactive, animation and video projects from concept-to-completion and also will work directly with clients. Nicklaus will play a key role in leading the design team as well as managing production. Prior to joining NIA, Nicklaus was an Interactive and Motion Designer with DMNA in San Francisco, and also worked as a freelance designer. He also senior positions at Zinda Video and The Human Factor. Nicklaus holds a BA in Computer and Video Imaging from Cogswell Polytechnical College where he focused on character animation. He also received Certification in Flash MX from Macromedia.

Mickie Tagle brings over 15 years experience in sales and marketing to NIA, with client-side expertise in telecommunications, consumer electronics, software, healthcare, education and finance. Most recently, Mickie was Executive Producer at FatBox, a film and video production company, where she developed and managed account relationships with Intuit, IngersollRand, Cisco, Abbott Laboratories and more. Previously, she held senior positions with Triveni Digital, Sony, Oral-B, Broadvision, Landmark Education, and Coldwell Banker & Zip Realty. As Sr. Account Director, Mickie will be cultivating and maintaining key relationships with healthcare, technology, retail and public sector clients, managing their projects from concept to completion. Mickie holds a Bachelor in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing, and has completed numerous professional development courses in leadership, communication, project management and multimedia & design.

Creative Director Chris Finetti notes, “We have experienced a great deal of growth this year, in particular during the last few months. It got to the point where we had to bring more people into the mix to ensure that we could continue to take on new projects as well as ensure that we could handle the influx of new accounts that have streaming in since October. The next step is securing our new office space – more on that in January!”

About NIA Creative:

NIA Creative was founded in 1996 and has grown to become a trusted go-to marketing partner for healthcare and technology companies and public sector/non-profit organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and U.S. In 2005, NIA launched its healthcare division, NIA Creative Health, to better meet the needs of device, pharma, diagnostics and consumer health firms. NIA is unique in that both traditional agency and full-scale production services are available in-house. Services include advertising and branding, web development, video production, animation, interactive media development and tradeshow/event marketing. Clients include Baxter BioScience, Biogen Idec, Cadence Design, Carl Zeiss Meditec, City of San Jose, Clarity Medical Systems, eHealthInsurance.com, Genentech, HA Logistics, Kaiser Permanente, Marin County Department of Health & Human Services, NuGEN Technologies, SellPoint, Tensilica, Themis, Workday and Zhone Technologies. For more information, visit www.niacreative.com and www.niacreativehealth.com.