James Wall (President CEO): James Wall founded Agency 33 in 2006 after working in partnership with several Denver PR professionals since 2000.
British by upbringing and education, a lawyer by training, Mr. Wall has been toiling in the PR world since 1996 when he was picked up and trained by former New York real estate public relations czar Gerry Freeman, who had recently moved to Denver.
Since then, Mr. Wall has won two national awards, several local ones and enjoys working with serious entrepreneurs, creative CEOs & professionals, and the occasional non-profit.
Mr. Wall has served on the boards of Opera Colorado, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral and the Denver Children’s Home. He currently serves as contemplative-in-residence for House for All Sinners and Saints, an eclectic Lutheran Congregation in urban Denver.
Vincent Dipas: Joining Agency 33 in late 2008, Vincent Dipas is one of a handful of people with backgrounds in biochemical engineering and marketing and PR.
He has engineered bacteria to produce chemical intermediates—he has sold and marketed technological developments: portable computers, marketing software and services, medical devices and drugs, and energy technologies. Or, as his tween daughters would tell you, Vincent has both performed science and “talked a lot about it.”
His particular expertise within “talking a lot about science” is branding, messaging, PR and marketing planning and management to drive growth companies to sales, finance and strategic goals, while also helping fund and invest biotech focused companies.
In his free time (of which there is little; he tries to bill it all), Vincent volunteers at his kids’ schools, skis, gardens (poorly), bikes (well), and misses the smell of the ocean.
Andrew Laing: Andrew Laing has been a PR professional for over a decade.
A native of South Africa, Andrew has a background in finance and a M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Denver.
Andrew specializes in representing professional service organizations. He has helped law firms, banks, investment banks, financial advisors, architects and accountants secure media exposure in diverse publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Money magazine, CNBC.com and The New York Times.
A board member and Committee Chair with the Colorado Judicial Institute, he also enjoys assisting tenacious non-profits like the Women’s Global Empowerment Fund.
When he’s not spending time with his wife, Lynn and teenage son, Alastair, Andrew enjoys traveling, reading, gardening and playing reasonably mediocre golf. And as a lifelong rugby player, he now takes in as much of the sport as he can from the safety of the sidelines.
Gwen Kawashima: Gwen has worked with Agency 33 for ten plus years, keeping the team organized and sane. Gwen has cultivated her administrative prowess from 20 plus years of office experience and has brought that know-how to Agency 33. From accounting and billing clients, trouble-shooting internet issues, to reaching out to reporters, Gwen does the essential work of keeping the company running smoothly.
Matthew Givner (ePR / Digital Marketing Specialist): Matthew graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 2010 with a degree in Government and a focus on International Relations. Matthew was accepted into the prestigious Princeton in Asia program which sent him to Dalian, China, where he taught college-level English to students at the Dalian University of Technology.
Following a year spent as an intensive Mandarin student at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics, Matthew was hired by Blue Focus PR Consulting to work full-time in Beijing as the in-house copywriter at the company’s largest client, Lenovo. Matthew left China for Denver in the summer of 2013.
For more than 21 years, Neal Browne served as a reporter and anchor for 9News, the NBC affiliate in Denver. Besides general assignment, he also covered politics, the State Legislature, and several national political conventions. He was nominated for several Emmys and awarded two, both for live reporting. He broke the story nationally of the exit of Gary Hart from the 1988 Presidential race.
He also anchored a feature called “America Today” for two years. It was a series of short video stories depicting life and times in America, and was broadcast on more that 150 PBS-TV stations across the country and on Armed Forces Radio and Television in Europe.
Now involved in freelance, he has done segments for corporate accounts such as NAPA Auto parts, AT&T, Corporate Express, GE, The Health News Network, US West, ITT, The Food Network, and two productions for the Federal Government. He has also narrated historical documentaries including the demos of “How The West Was Lost”, “Viet Nam, the Tet Offensive”, “The Jonestown Massacre”, and the European broadcast version of “God Speed, John Glenn.”
Russell Carollo is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist whose specialties include computer-assisted reporting, FOIA, public records, the military and long-term investigative projects.
He’s been a Pulitzer finalist four times, most recently in 2002. He won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and has won numerous other national awards, including Harvard University’s Goldsmith Award, two White House Correspondent’s Association awards and six Investigative Reporters & Editors awards.
He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Southeastern Louisiana University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University, which inducted him into its Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009.
Carollo worked as a special projects reporter for the Dayton Daily News, Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times, and has taught journalism at Colorado College and Oklahoma State University.
He currently works as a consultant living the leisurely life at his beautiful home in Pueblo.
Andy has been designing creative brands, marks, logos and the like for close to 20 years. After a few years working for a major Denver-based ad agency, Andy decided to ply his own trade and has become a graphic designer of some repute in Colorado. Andy’s design styles are always cutting edge and imaginative, and his work has ranged from designing stationery for financial companies and law firms to restaurant logos appearing on signs throughout Denver and beyond. Andy holds a degree from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. He lives in central Denver with his wife and young son, Andrew Jr.
