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Libre Design & Digital makes the brand. Then comes the hard part.
From surfboard identities to gaming checkout pages, Libre connects how a business looks with how it sells. Its most revealing work happens after the logo is approved.
Vapor Studio builds brands you can pick up
From robot-inspired headphones to a lemonade can with summer plans, the California agency treats the product, the packaging, and the pitch as parts of the same job.
Metajive makes the complicated feel obvious
A printer subscription. An AI filmmaking tool. A mountain company finding its voice. The California agency behind them has learned that good design starts with a business question.
Dirk Soenksen
Dirk Soenksen is the co-founder and CEO of Ceresti Health, a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that treats the family caregiver as the unit of care for people living with dementia. An engineer by training, he first reshaped a corner of medicine by founding Aperio, the company that turned the glass microscope slide into a digital image and became the global leader in digital pathology before Danaher's Leica Biosystems acquired it in 2012. A coffee on his last day at Leica sent him into a second act: instead of imaging the brain, he set out to support the overwhelmed spouses and adult children caring for it.
Amanda Luke
Amanda Luke is the CEO of Bonafide Provisions, the family-founded California maker of organic, traditionally-prepared bone broth. A UC Berkeley and Columbia-trained marketer, she spent years building health-and-wellness brands at Safeway and Luvo before joining the small Carlsbad broth company in 2018, rising from VP of Marketing to CEO within roughly a year. Under her leadership the women-led brand pushed beyond frozen broth into keto cups, cooking broths, and shelf-stable pantry products, positioning Bonafide as one of the most recognizable clean-label bone broth names in the United States.
Tom Griffiths
Tom Griffiths is the CEO and co-founder of Hone, a live, cohort-based talent development platform that trains managers at companies like Indeed, ConocoPhillips, and Aramark. Before Hone, he co-founded daily fantasy sports company FanDuel and ran product for a decade as Chief Product Officer, helping pioneer a new category and grow it into a billion-dollar business with millions of users. A Cambridge computer scientist who left a machine learning PhD in Edinburgh to chase a startup, he now builds technology that teaches human skills.