At Solid State he leads customer and audience research, designing inquiries to test marketing ideas, aid product development or improve holistic customer experience design. He also helps companies distill unique, competitive market positions and brand personalities and develops key message systems to guide consistent communication. Tom has worked recently with Riverside Publishing / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, AllRecipes.com, Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), the New Buildings Institute, Children’s Hospital, Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, and numerous professional service and technology organizations.

Prior to founding Solid State in 2003 Tom directed strategy at ZAAZ, a Seattle website design firm, and worked on initiatives for Converse, Microsoft, Tommy Bahama, Weyerhaeuser, the Seattle Public Library and leading consumer financial institutions. As a senior creative director at Caribiner International, the largest global marketing communications firm of the 1990s, he designed interactive data displays for AT&T and corporate presentations for Intel. He also worked as creative director of Futureworks New Media and lead writer at Watts-Silverstein & Associates of Seattle.

Tom’s marketing and corporate media career was preceded by fifteen years in broadcast news. He was a producer and editorial supervisor for CNN and the executive producer of Larry King Live, for which he shared two CableACE awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. Tom was also an anchorman and on-air reporter in US local television news, winning Associated Press awards.

Tom is a guest lecturer in the University of Washington’s Digital Media Program and the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, and advises the Television Studies Program at Lyndon State College, Vermont. He holds a degree in government from Dartmouth College.

Ken has served as Chairman of six separate broadcast companies and has notable national and international experience. In 1995 he was selected to be president of an international consulting firm that conducted business in 46 countries and 13 different languages.

Ken specializes in the "art of strategic corporate process"; which combines his knowledge of profitable business perspectives along with an outstanding understanding of the value of corporate image and corporate branding. He has expertise in all major media, and he has a real knowledge of how media thinks and works, which he says is "typically a knowledge that virtually all PR, IR, and advertising firms do not have."

He brings a real world business prospective of what it takes to build a corporate image that will produce value for its executives and stockholders. He says that he, "practices building stakeholder equities and values including the corporate critics" to build real and measurable financial growth.

He holds a B.S. degree in Business and Finance from University of Utah and has attended graduate management schools and broadcast seminars, including a completion and graduation from the Harvard Graduate School Advanced Management Course for Mid Career Executives.

Honors include "The Man of the Year" Award from the Seattle Advertising Federation; and "The Living and Giving" Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in 1993. He has also received a 30 Year Service Award from the United Way of King County, and was named Washington State's "Man of the Year" by the Boy Scouts of America.

Dr. Im has a unique background as a dentist, because he first went to Medical School at Creighton University and was a medical officer for the United States Army. However, after a heartfelt career change, he ultimately graduated with distinction and honors from the Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry. Dr. Im is an active member of the American Dental Association, Washington State Dental Association, and the Seattle-King County Dental Society. A perfectionist at heart, Dr. Im strives to achieve excellence with every procedure, while practicing compassion with a gentle touch. He currently owns and operates Sunrise Dental, the largest network of dental offices on the West Coast.

Specializing in nature and landscapes, both still photography and film, Loren has traveled to and worked professionally on all seven continents. He leveraged his connections in environmental science and technology to form Eaglemont, a content development company at the leading edge of 21st century media convergence. Eaglemont has garnered 45 awards for its role in introducing blended media into the production of a book series called Adventures of Riley® (Scholastic). This now serves as a two-dimensional exemplar for his forays into interactive media.

Loren is a frequent lecturer on technology, interactive media, education and Energy Transfer Dynamics at Harvard, Yale and international professional conferences.

Peter Wilson is an entrepreneur and consultant, focusing on Cloud Computing, Social Media and strategies to monetize web traffic, as well as how to build sustainable effective organizations. He lives in Kirkland, Washington.

Peter was Director of Engineering for Google's Kirkland development center, where he lead the development teams for parts of Google AdWords, Google Maps, Google Talk and Google Video. Under Peter’s leadership, Google’s presence in the Pacific Northwest grew to multiple offices and hundreds of engineers.

Peter has also held a variety of positions with Microsoft, Diamond Cluster Consulting and Accenture. Peter has a BSc in Computer Science from London University's Imperial College.