John is a graduate of University of Guelph (B.A. Hon.) and University of Toronto (M.A.) specializing in visual perception, memory, cognition, and psychophysics.

He worked in and with Toronto-area advertising and PR agencies as a copywriter, illustrator, designer, and art director, then started his own visual communications agency in 1985.

Active as writer, video producer, editor, web designer, industrial designer, illustrator, salesman, inventor, builder, choir director, bass-baritone singer, musician (flute, bass, guitar, keyboards). John's other passions are to design and build Architectural Digest-quality heirloom furniture.

Married with Rose-Anne, who also works in the business, and a father of four children whose comment: "Dad, you're such a geek!", John wears like a badge of honor.

Graduate of University of Toronto with a Specialist in French and National Institute of Broadcasting for radio and television. She often appears as the on-camera personality, does the female voice-overs, and is the host of a weekly radio talkshow, Real Life Radio.

Rose-Anne currently runs her own businesses and web sites related to food, health, and women's issues. She was recently appointed to be the Director for the Power of Women Exchange chapter in The Bay of Quinte area to encourage women in business to network, expand their markets, and grow their businesses.

A mother of two kids, Rose-Anne juggles the family and her own businesses with adroit skill. She is an avid gardener, singer, artist, photographer, and has a deep interest in alternative medicine and energy healing.

John and Rose-Anne are living their dream on a 36-acre country property with 2 kids Kristiana and Johan, Kiko, a Labradoodle chief of security, and two cats in the beautiful Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. "You can be sitting at the family campfire and 20 seconds later you're skyping a client in Texas -- how can you beat that for a lifestyle!"

Andy Neill has done thousands of radio and television commercials over more than 30 years...Andy has worked as a Personality, Music Director, Program Director and Operations Manager.

For the past several years, Andy has concentrated on his commercial and narration work for a large number of major corporate clients such as GM, AT&T, Sears, Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart, Trans-America Insurance, and Gay Lea Foods.He has also been heard as a commercial and promo voice on The FAN590, the All Sports SuperStation in Toronto as well as other radio stations across the continent!

Andy currently lives in Brazil (distances don't matter anymore) with his wife, lovely Thieny, and her son Israel.

Samples of Andy's voice can be heard throughout our sites and as a narrator on many of our training and promotional videos. Andy has his own digital studio and can return your script within 48 hours in any audio format. For further information, click to Andy's web site at

http://www.andyneill.com

Risto Turunen has worked for over 25 years as a professional artist. Beginning after graduating from a high school commercial art program, he entered the workforce as a layout and illustration artist at the Toronto Sun. After a short stint there, he spent most of the eighties creating larger-scale oil and mixed media paintings. Represented by Nancy Poole’s Studio, his works sold to collectors across the continent.

In 1989, his main focus shifted to freelance illustration, working for the advertising, institutional, editorial and publishing fields as well as taking on the occasional mural commission. Together, his fine art and illustration work have picked up several awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. Risto works with many of the traditional mediums; oils, watercolour, acrylic, pen and ink, scratchboard, graphite, pencil crayons, pastels, and marker for storyboard work.

Client list includes: London Life Insurance, The Grand Theatre, Quadrus Investment Services, 3M, Pfizer, BASF, Chrysler Canada, Great West Life, Procter and Gamble, Canada Trust, Echo Power Tools, The Financial Post Magazine, The London Free Press, London Magazine, Score Magazine, The University of Western Ontario Gazette, Western Business School, McClelland and Stewart, Harcourt Canada, McCormick’s Foods, Highliner Foods, Beaver Foods, Kelsey’s Restaurants, Country Style Donuts, Shopper’s Drug Mart, Mandarin Restaurant, Masonville Place, St. Joseph’s Health Care, Victoria Hospital, Dream of a Lifetime Lottery, London Health Sciences Centre, and the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Risto lives with his wife and four daughters in Peterborough, Ontario..

Many of Risto's great illustrations have appeared in our print publications.

http://www.ristoturunen.com

You wake up at 4 O'clock in the morning to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email on the way back to bed :: You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free internet access :: You start using smileys :-) in your snail mail :: You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com :: You can't correspond with your mother because she doesn't have a computer :: When your email box shows "no new messages" and you feel really depressed :: You don't know the gender of your three closest friends because they have non-descript screen names :: You move into a new house and you decide to "Netscape" before you landscape :: In real life conversations, you don't laugh, you just say "LOL, LOL".