Board Member Category: Top 10

Michael Dobell is a co-founder and EVP for Innovation at Media.Monks. His focus is on expanding the agency’s digital service offerings and expressing it to customers and the market. Previously Michael co-led digital design agency Jam3’s successful merger with Media.Monks. Michael is the vice chair of the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA), and Strategy Director at the Squamish Windsports Society.

Over the past decade Michael’s teams have won many industry awards and accolades, including the very first Cannes Cyber Lion, The One Show, D&AD, and over 100 Favorite Website Awards. His writing work and interviews have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Creativity, Applied Arts, Fast Company, Communication Arts, as well as Forester, who selected Jam3 as 2021’s ‘North American Digital innovation Agency of the Year’. When he’s not busy making things happen at Media.Monks, Michael is in search of a great espresso and a decent wave or two.

Mike was born in Canada, has lived in Washington, California, British Columbia, Japan and Toronto (in that order) he now lives on the traditional and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation along with his family. He grew up on omni magazine, nat geo, and Blue Peter; but really he likes to say he’s from the internet.

Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a Harvard Business School student.

From an emailed cartoon to coworkers in 2002, Tom’s Marketoonist series has grown by word of mouth to reach half a million readers a week and his cartoons have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The New York Times. His cartoons have twice appeared on billboard ads in Times Square and helped win a Guinness World Record.

Tom is the founder of Marketoonist, a marketing agency focused on the unique medium of cartoons. Since 2010, they’ve developed marketing and internal communication campaigns for more than 200 businesses such as Google, IBM, LinkedIn, and Adobe.

Tom draws (literally and figuratively) from two decades in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe. He was Interim Chief Marketing Officer at HotelTonight, Marketing Vice President at Method Products, and worked in brand management for Nestle and General Mills. Tom developed web sites for interactive agency iXL and started his marketing career selling advertising for the first English-language magazine in Prague.

Tom is the author of “Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings.” He also illustrated 3 business books with Deloitte: “Provoke” (Wall Street Journal Bestseller), “Detonate” (National Bestseller), and “Work
Disrupted.”

Tom was Cartoonist-in-Residence and lecturer for the Stanford GSB course on humor in business and is a repeat lecturer on humor at Harvard Business School. Tom spoke at the TED headquarters in New York on “The Power of Laughing at Ourselves at Work.”