Entrepreneur, Graphic Designer, & Illustrator Joins Click

Mary Kearney

Mary Kearney

Click is delighted to welcome its newest member, Mary Kearney!  Mary is an entrepreneur who started her career building a commercial cleaning service and who now is launching a graphic design and illustration business.  

In her own words:

"Seasoned sales and design professional with over 20 years of experience as both an employee and entrepreneur, strong sales experience in developing accounts, marketing products using print and computer graphic design, managing client relationships and closing sales; able to quickly learn or update knowledge in a variety of fields through accredited courses, lifelong learning, tutorials, books, documents, workshops, trade shows, and trade magazines.

Marketing and Design Skills: Web and Print design; logo design, corporate branding, flyers, posters, packaging, point-of-sale displays, billboards/vinyl vehicle wraps, banners, brochures, business cards, newsletters, presentation charts/graphs, video editing, computer animation, architectural rendering, book covers, and traditional graphic design such as thumbnails, layout/mechanical and stat camera

Sales Skills: Business strategy development, account management, prospecting through networking organizations, trade shows, sales presentations, direct mail, radio, print and social media advertising

Technical Skills: MS Office, QuickBooks, Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Aldus Freehand, ClarisWorks, graphic tablets, scanners, and printers"

Graphic Designer Joines Click

RJ Sakai

RJ Sakai

Click is delighted to welcome our newest member: RJ Sakai

In his own words:

"I grew up in Los Angeles wondering what tourists thought when their glitzy vision of Hollywood didn’t quite match up with reality. I continued to ask questions like this regarding cultural authenticity as I formed my own concentration in design and cultural anthropology at Hampshire College. At school I used ethnographic research methods to inform design projects centered around how cultures are visually imagined and how tourist experiences are constructed and consumed. I strongly believe cross-cultural exchanges, whether local or global, increase one’s capacity to empathize, support, collaborate, and learn. 

After graduating in 2012, I remained on campus as the Creativity Center Alumni Fellow, designing ways to inspire creativity, innovation and risk taking amongst the College’s students and faculty. For the past seven years I have maintained a steady flow of clients as a freelance photographer and print graphic designer. 

Since 2000 I have had a goal to visit all the U.S. state capitals (33 down). I attribute my love for cooking to growing up watching the Food Network. Sometimes I do card tricks. I'm an only child. Orange and blue are my favorite colors.

I'm currently pursuing professional and educational opportunities that will further my interest in ways ethnographic research can inform an interdisciplinary design practice geared toward doing social good"

Chorus Foundation Selects Clicksters Chris Landry & Randall Smith for Major Contract

Chris Landry

Chris Landry

The Chorus Foundation, a sizable and influential Boston grantmaker investing in climate change work in Kentucky and elsewhere, selected Clicksters Chris Landry and Randall Smith to advise the foundation and grantees on messaging strategy.

The Chorus Foundation is interested in the intersection of economic justice and climate change. Specifically, they are investing in managing the transition to a low-carbon economy in a way that works for Main Street, not just Wall Street.

Randall Smith

Randall Smith

"This is the great thing about Click," says Chris. "Randall is the best possible person for me to have brought in as a partner on this project — his skills and background are a perfect fit. And here he was, working in the same space."

Congrats Chris and Randall!  

Innovation Tour of the Boston Startup Community

Click's Friends at the Economic Development Council of Western MA and Valley Venture Mentors have organized a special tour of the Boston/Cambridge Startup Community.  Clicksters and our friends are invited to participate.  RSVP

Details...

Several organizations are opening their doors to us and will provide tours of their facilities and explain their approach and services.  Attendees will be able to experience, interact, and learn from various key players in the Boston area entrepreneurial ecosystem. The day will finish with a special tour and reception at MassChallenge where everyone will be able to interact with and hear presentations from successful alumni of this accelerator.  Pizza, soft drinks and the elixir of innovation - beer - will be provided.

Get full details and buy your ticket here